Week 88 - Earthquakes and stuff.

I´m completely fine. The earthquake didn´t do much damage to Guayaquil. It is sad to see that many cities have become grave yards, though. Manta was wrecked. The night the earthquake hit we were all told to go to our houses immediately. Some missionaries went back, and there house wasn´t there any more. The phones went out, and really it was miraculous that we were able to evacuate all of the missionaries so quickly from Bahía, Pedernales, Chone, Manta, Jaramijó, Portoviejo, and Jipijapa. All of the mission is either here in Guayaquil, or in Libertad or Daule. This past week has been super stressful. All of the missionaries who came from outside of Guayaquil were staying at the Temple Housing. Most of them left behind all of their stuff. Fortunately, president Dennis has had two dreams about this happening before. So we were prepared. Everyone had 72 hour kits and Safe Places. I had to move about 50 Mattresses all over Guayaquil and Pedro Carbo and Libertad. It´s been pretty hectic. All of the missionaries were protected by the hand of the Lord.

One of the missionaries who came from Manta is Elder Guajardo. He´s going to be the new materials secretary here in the office. I´m training him to replace me. In total, we have 10 missionaries living in our house now.

Victor was baptized today. Tomorrow he´s going to be confirmed. He´s doing really good.

Anyway, I think that´s all for now.

Love,

Elder Nájera

Week 87 - Photos lots of Photos

Frozen yogurt here after watching general conf (Not as good as Menchies)

Pitajaya

Prosperina Zone

When my companion was sick (During Carnaval)

The Islay Santay (Again).

 New Years

A lovely view from our balcony.

El Malecón

A member from Monte Sinaí we bumped into.

So these things are called manigotes. There these huge piñatas that they spend all year making, and then burn on New year´s. Before New Year´s we drove around in our stake president´s car and took photos of every single one we could find.

Week 84- Photos from the past forever

Photos Sent From the Past Forever

Week 73

This week´s been pretty slow, to be honest, haha. 

We stayed in the house all day for Christmas and New Years. We were allowed to watch a couple of Disney movies, so we borrowed the mission´s projector and watched some Disney movies :) We also played Monopoly ALL DAY. It was pretty legit. 

Next week we have to have all of the stuff ready for when the new missionaries arrive. Elder García also goes home on the 12th, and I will be with Elder De La Cruz, from Guatemala. This upcoming week we´ll have tons of time to find new investigators, which I´m excited about. 

Thanks for all of your support, love you all!