Hello family and friends.
How are you? I am still doing very well in Ecuador. Yesterday was my 18th month mark as a missionary. Rainy season has also started again. I am debating whether I should buy a new umbrella for just three weeks, but in the meantime I am getting soaked.
It has been a good week. The presidential elections are tomorrow so we can’t go out at all in case there are some uprisings in the streets. We will just go to sacrament meeting and then come straight home.
I am trying to think of any adventures we have had lately. We found a new part of our sector that I had never been to. We also took the wrong bus and ended up way far out of our sector and had to ride the whole loop. Whoops. We are working with a few people that will be getting baptized on October 28th. They are so excited about learning. Sandra sings, prays, and reads her scriptures every day by herself. I love seeing how the gospel changes people lives. It has and continues to change mine.
A lot of people lately have been asking us why God lets bad things happen to good people. We almost always read in Alma 14 and 2 Nephi 2 with them. I think every trial we have is something sacred from the Lord that helps us grow and rely more on Him if we let it. I have learned more about some people and their lives than I thought I ever would. But as I have testified of the power of the Atonement to make all things right I have felt the Spirit witness that it is true. And that more than anything has changed my heart. I am so grateful for my understanding of the Plan of Salvation. It puts everything in to perspective.
I love you all! Thank you for your continued love, support, and prayers.
Love, Hermana Jones
