Well, this week was a little more exciting. More traveling, again. It was the beginning of the month, so we knew that there was going to be Consejo in Guayaquil, but normally we travel Sunday afternoon to be there Monday morning. Saturday night we still hadn´t heard anything, so we thought they weren´t going to have it. I was a little bummed, because I wanted to go one last time. I was also worried that maybe they were going to release me at the last minute so that I wouldn´t have to go so soon before I´d have to be traveling to Guayaquil anyways, which is something that often happens. So here we made some plans for things we were going to do last Monday, when at around 8amthe zone leaders call to say that we have to travel that day to Guayaquil because Consejo was going to be on Tuesday, so we just had a few hours to get our stuff together, try and buy some stuff really fast, and then travel to Loja so that we could catch the bus. The zone leaders from the other zone almost didn´t make it; the bus had started moving to leave the terminal, and they came running up 5 minutes later. If there hadn´t been several buses leaving at the same time and blocking our bus, they would have missed it and not made it to Consejo. So that was intense. But Consejo was really good, Presidente talked about the Sabbath Day and how we have to put more of an emphasis on it in every aspect--in how we teach it to our investigators as well as in our own lives. That´s why he officially changed Consejo to Tuesday, so that we wouldn´t have to be traveling on Sunday. I really liked it, because I´ve actually been thinking a lot about the Sabbath Day recently here in our sector.
We ended up not getting back to our sector until about Wednesday, and we´ve just been going with our newest convert, Adela, every day. She´s been a big help. She´s been so excited to help us and will present us to her friends all the time, and will just share her testimony with them without us needing to ask her. It´s been really nice to see how happy she is.
On Saturday we had a branch activity that us as the missionaries and the mission leader put on, and it was really fun. A lot of people came, and everyone had fun. My companion and I were in charge of this one game where there were some donuts tied with a string and hanging in the air and they had to eat them without using their hands. It was pretty funny.
Mother´s Day was a very, very busy day. We almost didn´t have time to do anything. We had church at 10am, and then afterwards we went to eat lunch, and then my companion called her family, and when she finished we had to go to branch council meeting, and then we had to leave so I could call, and then we tried to have our correlation meeting with the branch mission leader, but the elders were still calling their families so that didn´t happen, so at the end of the day we just had half an hour to go visit Adela, since she was sick and hadn´t gone to church that day, so we went to see how she was doing. We made a few little cards for some of the sisters in the branch for Mother´s Day, and they turned out really cute.
Welp, this is officially my last week here in Catamayo, so I´m going to do everything I can to make it count. See y´all soon!
Love,
Hermana Iverson
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