Pictures from 30 July 2012

Getting ready to go to the baptism outside of the neighbors house

 Baptism of the Moreno family

 I guess me and my comp are sleeping

 on broken bed-frames and ant infested beds, HaHa

 We had to take our new beds to a whiny Elder so we took a truck

 one and a half hour to the Elder’s house and I was out like a light

Dear Familia

July 23, 2012

Dear Familia, Wow, what a great week. After 3 trips to Guayaquil and a heck of a ton of verifying papers and appointments, the Moreno family got married on Friday. I literally could not contain myself. I WAS SOOOOO STOKED!!!!!!!!!! Holy Smokes, this marriage took sooooooo long. We have tried for five weeks and every time they couldn’t because of little problems and with lots of prayer and fasting and verifying, they finally were able to get married. The reason it took so long really is because people here are so dishonest and try to take advantage of them because they are very poor and they are a black family. Yes, there is racism a little bit here also, but the ward helped us a ton and made friends with the judge and a lawyer and THEY GOT HITCHED!!:) They are so happy. Saturday, Alicia, the mom and her son, David (the mom and little brother of Heidy Moreno that got baptized 3 weeks ago) got baptized and they got confirmed Sunday. What an incredible family and the Mieles family took themselves to church. We had a great turnout in church Sunday also. At 11:30 Saturday night we went flying to the ER and were there until 2:30 in the morning trying to get my companions blood pressure back to normal. His heart was pumping 100 beats a minute and had a blood pressure of 160/100. Yeah, it was high but he’s tough so we keep going. I’m actually in Guayaquil right now as we just got out of the hospital. He’s alright though. We hope to have two more baptisms in our sector and we hope to end this month with nine:) It’s cool. The ward is SOOOOO stoked because before we got here, the missionaries didn’t do anything and only had two baptisms all year. I testify to being obedient. If you are, God blesses you and he has been dropping baptisms out of the heavens, really! Wow, and they are whole families also. That’s the best part. I’m so content with the work! Really, I am so happy. The mission is the best:) I love you all so much, Love, Elder Profaizer

Pictures from 16 July 2012

We found some BBQ sauce and I love it

 We call it "Vomit" and it is good

 Happy 4th of July

 Familia Mieles

 Baptism Day

 I got me some new GEL

 This is the view from a house in my zone

Dear Familia

July 16, 2012

Dear Familia,

Well, this week was a RUN RUN RUN week like the rest of the weeks of my mission will be. We are just barely getting done with our zone leader meeting with the President and I'm tired, haha. We have been up since 5 and I haven't even got back to Milagro yet. We're still in Guayaquil. But it is so good! Being zone leader, me and companion are just in charge of our zone. There are 13 zones in the mission and our zone covers a pretty big chunk of land. We have sectors that are 2 hours away so we have to travel frequently to get to know the investigators and have interchanges with the other missionaries. This verifies that they are doing what they are supposed to do. Also, we get all the numbers in the zone and organize meetings with the bishops and stake presidents. It's pretty tiring, I'm not gonna lie, cuz we have to take the phone everywhere and always we are answering phone calls and taking care of problems but it's really a great experience and a test of patience. I'm really excited for this opportunity to learn so much and learn from President Montalti. He is a millionaire from international business and he treats the mission like a business. At first I thought this was bad but now I understand why and I love it. It's because this mission really is like a big business. It's really cool and I'm learning so much to be a good leader and work with many different types of people from church leaders to trouble maker missionaries. It's really cool.

We are probably going to have a few baptisms this week. I'm pretty excited right now. Me and my companion are working very good together and we get along well so we are having success.

Today I got a whole bunch of Dear Elder letters from the family. I love you guys so much. I haven't had the chance to read them all because I was on a crazy taxi and I got sick from reading them while moving so I stopped. Haha.

Guys, the mission is such a great blessing in my life. I can't even imagine where or what I would be getting myself into if I wasn't on a mission.

I LOVE IT!!!:)

LOVE,

ELDER PROFAIZER