October 16, 2017 At the beginning of this week I had an opportunity to be taught a whole bunch of words in Spanish from a seven year old girl during lunch at a member´s house. So many words! And everyone was saying you don´t know what a cocodrilo is? After a while I realized that is
October 9, 2017 Wow what a spiritual week! Overall I learned a tooon of Spanish vocabulary. I am still struggling to understand what people are saying. When they slow down when I don´t understand, I go ooooh and I can hear larger and larger phrases now. So it is progressing. Many times I will understand
October 2, 2017 I Love it here in Ecuador! Here is my report since last time! On Sunday the 24th: Let me start off with this. Every Sunday two people are called on to give a talk in Sacrament meeting in the MTC. During Sacrament meeting I hear, “Hermana Elquist, Elder Workman, -Whew I am
September 26, 2017 My flight was absolutely amazing. I had opportunities to share why I was going on a mission to Ecuador. I met a man who served in Colombia and he said that the Ecuadorianos are a very colorful people. I met the Mission President Alarcón and he is amazing. He is from Peru.
September 23, 2017 This week went by so quickly! I have grown so much here and I have grown to love the Savior so much more closely than I ever have before. We have been learning a lot of difficult things in Spanish. But I love it. I can definitely see all the uses for
September 16, 2017 Hola! This week has been a huge growth for me, it has been amazing. A couple years ago I went to AFY with Ethan Price. It was super cool. AFY is Adventure For Youth, it is a week up in Idaho where we do cool stuff like white water rafting, zip lining,
September 9, 2017 On last P-day we were in T4, which is a 6 floor building, it is the C shaped one if you look at the map. But some Elders dropped a racket ball from the top to the bottom and someone caught it. It was pretty risky. Sunday was pretty rough, I was
September 2, 2017 Helloooo! The amount of crazy coincidences that Elder Urie and I have! I met this Elder named Elder Seth Smith. I was talking with him and he said he grew up in St. Johns until he was 8 years old. He recognized my last name and I asked him if he knew
August 26, 2017 Hello! (excuse any typos, I am a little short on time today :S) Sunday was so Spiritual! Sacrament meeting was so touching because people gave talks in Spanish, I might have to give a talk in Spanish here pretty soon though! I am excited. But that night we had choir practice and
August 19, 2017 On Wednesday we sang Bring the World His Truth and instead of singing ‘we will be the Lord’s Missionaries,’ we all sang ‘we are now the Lord’s Missionaries’ and it was amazing. Anyway my companion is super awesome! He does these things called Tabatas which are intense exercises for 20 seconds then
