January 25, 2016 Week 14 Riobamba

HEY MOM,

Sorry we are emailing later today, We went to Baños and it is a really tourist place and we got back later than we 

anticipated. 

So this week we are feeling a lot better and I haven't been sick. I also had a dream that I was at home and I couldn't 

find you guys because you went somewhere. Anyways SO tuesday....I can't remember what we do cause it happens

so fast but one day we went to La media luna which is far away and we only have a few investigators and that guy

Andres left. We don't know where he went. We haven't seen him for a few weeks. So he is gone and now we have 

this other guy named Rodrigo who has been going to church for 9 months so we thought he was a member but we 

are going to baptize him this saturday. Well his girlfriends dad is going to baptize him. So we also had Bien ester like

we do every single thursday and it is just a meeting to see how everyone is doing.

Anyways it is Carnival over here and all the little kids are already throwing water balloons and eggs and they have 

squirt guns and flour and all this crap which they just throw at you. So they don't respect anybody's clothes, and I 

have a feeling that my white shirts arent going to be white for very much longer. I have also decided to wash my 

socks and other darks in the washing thing on our roof. It is a big concrete square and I figure I can soak my socks in

washing stuff and they will get clean so I have started to do that because washing machines cost too much and now 

I am going to save a bunch of money, so we don't have to starve for a few days a month. I have also decided to buy
a backpack for hiking around. I don't know why I didn't think of that sooner. 

I have realized that I have been here for 2 months and sometimes I still don't know what the people say but they say 

that my spanish isn't even bad so thats cool.  Anyways so we are still teaching some people and we have this one 

family who say they are trying so very hard to follow Christ and all this stuff but they dont read or pray or go to church.

So it's kind of disappointing. The lady came from Italy like two weeks ago but we still haven't had a chance to teach 

her. 

Also the air here is super super super disgusting and my face hurts.  Shaving cream is super expensive. Like 10 

dollars... So I cant really buy that because Somos pobres y vivimos lejos. Its something that some people say so we 

always tell people that. Well I don't really know what else. We went to this place called Baños this morning and it is 

like 2 hours ish away and it is a really tourist place and I got some super cool pictures. I wish you guys could see this

but maybe when you come pick me up from Ecuador we could travel there. It is really cool. There are just massive 

mountains and thats what we live in. There is no flat ground and the mountains are just super amazing and really

huge. I can't get all of it in a picture. It is so crazy here. Nature here is so wild and crazy I can't explain it. Maybe you 

find some better pictures on the internet but it is cool. So we went to this waterfall thing and I dont know its name.

But I will send some pictures.

I almost died from all the hiking.

Love Elder Rogers