I´m gonna be honest, this last week wasn´t very fun, but I had a lot of good things happen, so I´m going to start with that! Well, I´ve made it through my first transfer. I´m happy to say that Elder Garcia and I are staying together for another transfer in Oriente Quiteño until I finish my in-field training. We were actually in the room with Elder Arrambari, one of our zone leaders (former zone leader now, which makes me kind of sad because he was so cool) when he got the call from the Assistants about the changes because Elder Waldie was in the other room doing Steven´s baptismal interview (he´s getting baptized this Saturday!). We have two new Elders in Oriente Quiteño to split up the sector because it´s huge. Their names are Elder Melendez and Elder Mansell. They seem really nice I feel good about passing some of our investigators on to them.
We had stake conference this last Sunday and it was awesome because we had one of our families that we´re teaching attend. Their name is the Familia Tejero. It´s a mom and a dad named Pilar and Paul and two kids named Amy amd Jesus. We love them so much and Jesus is so cute. He´s two years-old and he´s the cutest little two year-old you´ve ever seen (well, third cutest I guess. Shout out to Livee and Warner!) We´ve been having a hard time getting them to come to church because Paul works on Sundays a lot. On Saturday we had a lesson with them and when we invited them to church like we had the last couple of lessons and we got the same response from Paul. We were disappointed for a second, but then Pilar was all like, "What do you mean your busy tomorrow? it´s your day off. Why don´t you want to go to their church? I really want to go but I want us to go as a family, so what´s keeping you from going?" He was silent for a moment and then said, "We´ll see what we can do." They were there at the chapel the next day.:)
Stake Conference was also really cool because President and Hermana Christensen gave talks. It´s always so nice to see them and it was fun for them to meet the familia Tejero and Steven, who was also there. President Christensen gave a really good talk about how members can help in the mission work. He quoted President McKay´s "Every member a missionary" a couple of times, which I´ve come to find out is so true. Also, this is super random but I also found out that President Christensen´s brother is Craig C. Christensen from the Presidency of the Seventy. I guess awesomeness just runs in their family.:)
So, I mentioned last week that I felt sick Saturday night and all day Sunday from that week. Well, it calmed down tha Monday but then like right after I´d finished writing you guys it kicked back up. It continued the entire week actually. I called the mission nurses again on Wednesday and they recommended I take some tests to see what´s going on. On Thursday, I got the results and saw that I tested positive for not one, but two parasites. I´m still really confused about how though because Elder Garcia has been fine and we´ve eaten all of the same things, but yeah, I´ve got ´em bad (and that ain´t good). I was laughing though because I told Elder Lambert and Elder Watkins about it at our Zone meeting and they were so worried and thought that I was gonna be sent home or something. Elder Lambert told me today that he´s been praying for me. I love those guys so much haha.
But yeah, that kind of put a damper on my week a bit. Here in Ecuador they have a saying for when someone has parasites. They say you´ve got a little family inside of you. Most of the families that I come into contact with are very nice but these families are jerks! I have to say though, I´ve seen a lot of tender mercies this past week with my unfortunate illness. For one thing, it didn´t rain for almost the entire week which is rare for Quito. Most of our appointments came through for us, so when I relly needed to use the bathroom, I was able to. Even through our trials, God is looking out for us. So, that´s been my week. I love you all and hope you´re all doinbg well. ¡Pase buena semana!
Elder Hicks
Picture 1: What I found on our whiteboard after a particularly rough day. Elder Garcia´s the best.
Picture 2: I´m sorry it´s taken so long for me to send a picture but here it is! I only ever play it Mondays, but I´ve been having a blast learning different hymns and primary songs.
Picture 3: A shot of the sunset out of our appartment window.
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