WOOOO Jan 2, 2012

Hello! Hey everyone, how are you? Well my week was really great!! We couldn't do anything cuz we spent the whole week getting ready for Sunday. This Sunday was the day after the biggest party of the year here, so it was kind of a bust. So I'll tell you real quick how my ano nuevo (new year) was. We were stuck in the house at 2:00 on Saturday. The night was cool as we stayed up for the celebration. Here everyone buys this paper huge life size minigotas or also called ano vejos (old years). They are made to look like people or cars or cartoons or smerfs, anything. They are huge about 8,9 or 10 feet tall. They throw them all in piles and beat them up because they represent the old year and then they burn them. It's huge and there are fireworks on all sides filling the skies. Everyone is super drunk and crazy. See the pictures. It was pretty cool!! Then after church on Sunday in the afternoon, some of our investigators came to visit us at our house. That was a nice surprise:) We are baptizing one of the girls this week and possibly her cousin also and then the girls mother next week:)

Oh, also, HAPPY BIRTHDAY THIS WEEK! JEN!!!!

I learned something cool this week. My bishop here was a body guard for President Hinckley when he came for the ground breaking of the temple here. That's so cool! I want to send some pictures this week so I will have to cut this message a little short. I love you guys so much:)

Love Elder Profaizer

Pictures from 2 January 2012

Elder Profaizer and President Montalti

Elder Aguilera and Elder Profaizer














President Montalti with family and Matthew's Zone

Elder Aguilera, Elder Profaizer and Delady Ponce

Kevin Munos Baptism with parents and sister














Familia Altamarano and investigators














4 week projection














Center of Guayaquil

Matthew and Iguana

New Stereo for listening to thumb drive














How to celebrate Christmas and New Years looking out the window



















Gotta have a Coca Cola to celebrate Christmas



















Thought I would get some sun hanging legs out the window and fell asleep















Looking out our window on New Years Eve






Bonfires to burn old year problems














More Bonfires














New Years Eve Big Big Big Bug














Minigotas, some guy from cat in boots movie

WHOOO!!!! Dec. 26, 2011

Hey you guys:) Well, I have to say I really loved hearing your voices yesterday. It was so good but the time passed way too fast but that's ok. I was a little outta it for a second and was just thinking about you guys but that passed quickly. Right after talking to you, my companion came flying out of the bathroom and had a weird thing going on. He had an allergic reaction so we got to leave the house at 7:30 and went flying to the hospital. It was a fun adventure. Everything turned out fine. He had just a bacteria but he caught it super fast so no problems. After we went walking about three miles to find the buses because neither of us had any money for a taxi. We were in normal clothes and wow, we felt so normal. It was cool. Nobody was talking bad or staring at us, lol, It was really nice but then we got on the bus and got back to the house. It was like a mini vacation because we had been stuck in the house all day Christmas. I'll tell you, that was horrible but guess what!!! We get to do it again this Saturday and Sunday for New Years weekend. New Year's here is CRAZY haha. I'm excited to see it from my third floor window:) Well I don't have much to say today because I told you everything yesterday on the phone. I don't know if you guys privatized my blog or not, but please do it. I've just been thinking alot about it. It just may be me or the spirit, I don't know. I love you guys soooooooo much. Thanks for everything. Love Elder Profaizer