Merry Christmas in advance to everyone!
This week has been an interesting one. We´ve been working with a lot of people, although it´s been a bit tricky during this time of year. Almost everybody attends what is called the ´´Novena´´ which is basically a countdown that starts nine days before Christmas, if I understand correctly. It basically means going to mass every night and praying to the ´´Niño Divino´´. Kind of hard to catch people at night because of that. We´re working on it though.
We´re doing a good job with the members though. We´re getting more referrals from them, and they´re getting more excited. Yesterday our mission leader called me an hour before church to tell me I had a talk. I was good with an hour´s notice, considering that the branch president in Ibarra gave me ten minutes´ notice. Of course it was about the mission work. It must have been an awesome talk because right when I was getting started, a big parade marched right past the chapel. Virgin statues, fireworks, and all! Most certainly inspired of the adversary! haha. But we´re looking forward to a good Christmas this year. Sister Castro invited us for Christmas dinner, and on Wednesday we have dinner at the mission president´s house. We´ll just hope my comp doesn´t miss his mom too much, seeing how it is only his first Christmas, in his first six months! haha. It should go really well though.
Yesterday we went caroling as a zone to all the people who are getting ready to be baptized. We were in the areas of Elder Diaz and also of the sisters, who are all expecting baptisms this next week. We´re working on a few here in Conocoto. Nothing terribly solid yet, so we might see some surprises! Hopefully!
So we decided that we will be calling at about noon, which would be 10 am your time. Does that work? Just let me know so that I can plan it well! Talk to you on Sunday!
Love,
Elder Wallace
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