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