Loving Ambato

Wassup??? How's life in the good ol`USA?? Because life is great in Ecuador! I'm glad to hear the family is doing well and everyone enjoyed the trip to Disneyland. Disneyland is cool. Not as cool as Ambato, Ecuador, but cool.

So life is good here. I don't really have a lot to report this week. I'm doing well. We are working hard and the work is going forward. A bit slowly for the moment, but it is going forward. We have a great family we are teaching, the Marge Family. I think I might've wrote about them before. They are awesome and my companion and I are trying to help them progress to their baptism. They have gone to church twice now, but they are still a little hesitant about baptism. We are trying to help the dad of the family get his answer especially because if he gets his answer the whole family will follow him. I just want another family. It's cool to help people become converted to the gospel, but it is 10 times better helping families. People who can get sealed in the temple for all eternity. I just want another family in my time in Ambato.

But it is great here. The missionaries in our zone are awesome and we are helping them get way excited about this work. It's a good zone and hopefully we have a lot of success here. I don't want to leave Ambato yet. Ambato is like my favorite area so far. The members are great, the people are humble, and the Lord is sending his work forward here. So hopefully President doesn't change me in 4 weeks when we have transfers. But meanwhile I'll just work as hard as I can. 

Oh so I'm sending some pictures too. The first one is with all of the zone leaders outside of the city Quito because we had to travel and stay in the missionary apartment there for a meeting with President Ghent. And while we were there we just decided to puy some Papa John's because it is 2 for 1 on Tuesdays. So we got 8 pizzas for 8 missionaries. Lets just say we were all kind of sick in the meeting with President Ghent the next day, but it was fun haha. And the other pic is of my companaion, Elder Cortes, and I being gangsters haha.

Yeah so life is all good here. Juss working hard and doing my thing. I hope you are all doing well! Love you sooo much!!

Love,

Elder Joshua Lee

Oh and General Conference was AMAZING!!! I love sooooo much listening to the Prophets and the Apostols of our days. They really are men called of God. And luckily we still get to watch it in English here. We called it "The Racist Room", or the room where all the gringos went to watch conference in English haha. It was great! Love you soo much!

Pictures

Baptism!

 

 

Companions

 

Goofing off in the Apartment

Another Baptism!

Dear Family and Friends,

 

Well I don't have a lot to say this week. Again. Sorry about that haha. But everything is still going well here in Ambato. My new companion like I said is Elder Cortes from Chile. And he's a boss! He's a way tight dude and we get along really well. He's really active and funny and he works like a beast too so that's awesome!

 

So we've worked so dang hard this last week. We've been trying to find new people and help them progress and come to church. I was a little discouraged at the start of church last week because we were hoping that like 10 people would show up to church because we had visited a TON! of people and even more were supposed to come. but only one showed up at the start so we were kinda upset. but like halfway through church 3 more showed up so that was great! and honestly we had a great week.,

We worked and walked like beasts and I'm soooo tired because of it. I go to bed and I wake up tired. everything is just tired. I cant remember not being tired now. but tired is good as a missionary I guess. it means we're working hard. 

 

Oh and we had a baptism!!! whoo!!! So our work paid off! Her name is Daniela and she is the girlfriend of a member and she is really great. She has a strong testimony and we made sure she didn't just get baptized because of her boyfriend. We are also teaching her mom who is way cool too and hopefully will get baptized soon!

That's pretty much is this week. It has been a really fun week and a really tiring week as well. but I think the most fun you have is when you are working as hard as you can and that makes you really tired too so they go hand in hand. Oh and I'm sending some more pictures like of me and my companion playing baseball in the house. Luckily we didn't break anything haha. Love you all soooo much!!!!!

Con Amorcito,

Elder Joshua Lee!!

 

Picture!

Transfers

Dear Fam and Friends,

 

So this week we had transfers!! My companion, Elder Rogers, finished his time here in the mission and went home. It was actually a really sad day for me. I love that guy to death and miss him a ton already. He was a great companion and helped me to be a better missionary. But I'm also pumped for this next change. My new companion is Elder Cortes, from Chile. He's dope too! A way cool dude and we are pumped to work like beasts! We are going to help out our zone a ton. And they also divided our zone. Now the jungle isn't part of our zone so I won't be able to travel there anymore. But that's okay because there were way too many missionaries in our zone and it was hard to help all of them and focus on all of them. SO now we can help out our missionaries a lot more. 

 

Umm besides the transfers not a lot happened. My companion, Elder Rogers, got hit by a car 3 days before he want home. Haha it was kinda funny. He crossed the street without looking and a car ran over his foot. It didn't get broken or anything though. It just hurt him a lot and it was hard for him to walk. But he's okay now. The same thing happened to my last companion when he got hit by a motorcycle with 3 days until he went home. Luckily nothing happened to either of them. But I now have decided that I won't cross any streets my last week of the mission. But yeah so nothing else has happened. Here's a pic of our zone. enjoy.

 

Love you all a ton and thanks for everything!! Hopefully I have cooler stories next week.

 

 

Love ya!!

Elder Joshua Lee

 

Just a Normal Week

Dear Fam and Friends,

 

Well I don't really have anything exciting to say this week. It was a pretty normal, kinda boring week. My companion and I just went around working and we were able to get a family to come to church this week, The Marge Family, but it was stake conference this week and it wasn't the best stake conference I've been to. The microphone didn't work half of the time and we were sitting towards the back so we couldn't hear anything and the family didn't have the best experience there. Hopefully we can get them to come back to church next week. 

So yeah no baptisms and I can't think of anything that exciting the happened either. Sorry i feel like my letters just get more and more boring haha. But my companion, Elder Rogers, is going home next week. He finished up the mission so we went and bought some...... I can't remember what the word is in English... its recuerdos in Spanish. Oh yeah it's souvenirs. So we bought some today. So next week we have changes and I'm going to have a new companion. But not until next week. So yeah. Any questions? Like is good and I still love being a missionary! Just nothing that exciting went down this week.

Well you all are awesome and I love you a ton! Hopefully I have some cool stories next week! 

 

Love,

 

Elder Joshua Lee

 

Pictures

Dog Bite

 

Baptisms

 



3/4 of the Zone