Ecuador Quito Mission: May 2015- November 2016

Monday, September 26, 2016

September 26

Hey Fam! 

Well Im in a trio again! Hermana Benavides from Colombia is here with Hermana Gardiner and I! She is a doll and I just love her to pieces! Here are some pics from the week! All is well here:) We are finding lots of new people and cute little families! In a few weeks Elder Falabella from the 70 is going to come visit us! :) Im super excited to meet him! Yay for all of our dear leaders that dedicate so much time in helping us and to make the Lords work happen here on the Earth!

Hope you all have a great week! I love you all tons!!!

Love
Hermana Brimhall

September 19

Hey fam!

All is well as always haha We are doing great here. Hermana Gardiner is the sweetest. She is super cute and loves to laugh at my dumb jokes so we get along great haha. The funniest thing happened yesterday in church. One of the families that we are teaching came to church and they brought their dog hahahaha we had no clue what to do. We invited her to tie it up outside but she insisted on keeping it with her so I just looked at Hermana Gardiner and laughed but luckily she got their a little late so it was just on the classes and not the sacrament meeting. Its just funny because the same family got to church late last week as well and they were just knocking on the door during the sacrament because here they close the door when they pass the sacrament. They are such a quirky funny family. Weve got a lot of explainning to do haha 


I love you all tons and hope you have a good week!!

Love

Hermana Brimhall

September 12

Hey fam! 
So today we recieved our last transfers and im going to stay here in San Rafael with Hermana Gardiner! We are super excited because we both finish the mission together so we go lots to do! Im happy to be with her again! She is the cutest ever!

This week has been good but busy! Here are a few pics of my life haha.

I love you tons!!!!!

Hermana Brimhall


September 5

Hey fam!!

This week has been great but kind of sad. There are just so many sweet families going through such hard times but mytestimony of the atonement has grown. Its amazing how strong the healing power of the atonement really is. We have seen lots of miracles and we had lots of new less actives in church! We also found a new investigator that looks like Aunt Jemema from the syrup bottle haha she is a cute and sassy little old ladyand I love her to death. 
I got permission today to go visit Jennifer in Conocoto she was the first investigator that got baptized in my mission a year ago. It was so fun to see her! Here are some pics of a few family home evenings that we had this week and the cute old people are the famous grandparents Perez. They are members for about 50 years and he was one of the first bishops here in Ecuador because the churchonly has 51 years here. Its amazing how much has happened in short little time!

I love you all and hope youhave a great week!

Love
Hermana Brimhall


August 29

Hey fam bam! 

All is well here is paradise:) We had a ton to do this week! We had divisions and studies basically every day! We are seeing lots of miracles here and I feel so blessed to be Hermana Gardiners coomp. She is the sweetest! I had the worlds worst alergic reactions to some vitamen C pills and I broke out in hives all over my body and she had to rub stuff on my back every night ahahah she is a champ! 

On sunday it was the best thing ever! We were ableto reactivate a less active family a few weeks ago and the dad had been less active since he was 8 so he had never blessed the sacrament so he was ordained a priest last week and was able to bless the sacrament for the first time in his life and he is 28. It was the sweetest thing ever! I love the gospel and I love you all as well! Have a great week!!

Love
Hermana Brimhall


August 22

Hey family! 
This week was great! I sure love you all tons and Hope you are enjoying life. We are finding lots of less actives and lots that are going to progress! We are excited! I still love this work with all of my heart and Im sorry but Im never coming home. Im going to run away to a place called Taisha in the jungle part of Ecuador to live like Tarzan so they dont make me go home:)
Emarrassing moment of the week... It started to rain and we took out my umbrella and everything was going great but we left it outside to dry off while we ate lunch at a memebers house and when we went outside we say that there was brown stuff all over my umbrella and we thought that is was dog poop or something but it didnt smell like it so I looked in my bad to see if it came from there and sure enough there was a rotten banana from like a week and a half ago that a different memeber gave us that I forgot to take out hahahaha the memeber just looked at me and died laughing because it was the grossest banana I have ever seen. It was completely black and everything was squished out.
 
I love you all tons!!! Have a great week!

Love

Hermana Brimhall

August 15

Dear fam bam! 

This week was great! We are finding some new families to teach! We also had a conference like every day! We had leadership cousel, zone conference and mini conference. Hermana Gardiner and I are pretty much pros at giving capacitaciones. We have given like 4 in the past 2 weeks. All is well here in paradise! I dont have a lot of time to write but thats nothing new! haha I love you all tons!!

Embarressing moment of the week: So I let Hermana Peralta wear one of my slips and she finished her mission so she left it in the offices for me and I wore my white skirt to the zone conference. Long story short I forgot to put on a slip and you could totally see right through my skirt. SO the mission nurses came like an hour before the conference was finished and they gave me a little bag and it just so happened to be my slip! I was so happy! Nurses save lives my dear fam!

I hope you all have a good week!!!
Hermana Brimhall


Ps we went bowling again

August 8

Dear fam!
This is going to be a super short email again because once again I dont have a whole lot of time but to answer the question that everyone is asking I am going home on Oct 25th. I dont know what time or any of that fun stuff yet but Ill let you know when they tell me. 
This week was good though! I got a letter from one of my converts in Ambato and he is the greatest! Hes like 50 so I love him like a dad haha He is doing so great! He has the priesthood and is super excited. He shared his testimony in the letter and it made me cry haha I LOVE THIS GOSPEL!
Hermana Gardiner is the greatest! We are working hard and have a few baptisms coming up this month! Whoo hoo. Knocking doors and saving souls. Thats what we do hahah
Have a good week!!! I love you all!


Hermana Brimhall

August 1

well as always I dont have time to write but my new comp is Hermana Gardiner! She was in the MTC with me! We are going to kick booty! It was sad to see Hermana Peralta go because she finished her mission but I love her! She is the best!!
here are some pics to make up for my lack of words :)
I LOVE YOU ALL!!!!!!!!!!!

Hermana Brimhall


July 25

Well another crazy week haha the trio came to an end! It was a sad day but we had a baptism and we are working like crazy we had 12 investigators and lots of less actives there. The Lord is blessing us tons! the weeks go by like days. Its so crazy! I dont have a whole lot of time to write but im doing great! and here are lots of pics! 

I LOVE YOU ALL!!
Hermana Brimhall


July 18

Hey family! 
I sure love you all tons and I hope you all had a great week. We are seeing lots of miracles here in our sector. We have lots of people that are progressing and When we were at church a family showed up out of nowhere and nobody knew who they were but it turns out that they were just walking by the church one day and they decided that they wanted to learn more about it so they just came to church! It was so awesome. They have 3 adorable little kids we are excited to teach them!
We had lots of splits and studies this week. and as a district we went bowling today so here are some pics! I love you all tons and hope you have a great week!
Love

Hermana Brimhall

July 11

Being in a trio is the greatest! Everyone calls us the 3 stooges. We are working hard but we werent in our sector very much this week! We had leadership counsiland splits and studies with lots of hermanas. The work is going good! Here are some pics! I love you all tons!

Love

Hermana Brimhall

July 4

Well we had emergency transfers today and im in El Valle de los Chillos again in a sector called San Rafael! Its about 10 minutes away from where I started my mission in Conocoto! Im in a trio! Its a triple threat! Im going to be an Hermana Leader now which will be a little interesting but my comps are from Bolivia and Chile. Hermana Peralta was my hermana leader for like 6 months of my mission and now is my comp so thats kind of fun! Hermana Maldonado is great but I dont really know her haha but next week Ill know more!
Im sad to leave Ambato! My poor daughter was super sad but she is going to do great things! We have an investigator is Ambato that is going to be baptized on saturday but im not going to be able to be there so thats super sad but the most important is that he can make a covenent with our heavenly father. We had a lesson that was super special with him this week. He was a little unsure if he had recieved an answer or no but when we finished that lesson he prayed and we all left in tears because the spirit was so strong and he was super happy and excited to be baptized. He announced his own baptism at church in the class of gospel priniples and everything. He is so great!! 

Happy 4th of July!! I love you all tons! Hope you have an amazing week!


Love
Hermana Brimhall

June 27

Dear fam, 
This week was great! It has been a week full of happy tears and lots of success. Every night this week when we have gotten home we struggle to stay awake when we are plaaning because we are workingour little booties off.  We finally have investigators attending church and LOTS OF LESS ACTIVES!!! We are working with 13 less active families. I feel like my calling in life is to work with less actives haha my whole mission we have had to focus lots more on them. 
We found a less active and her son this week and she hated everyone and everything about the church but we had a lesson super spiritual with her and she told us that we could keep soming back for her son but she still doesnt want anything to do with the church but when we went back she was there alone and she told us that she had been praying to see if she is in the wrong and she wants to start praying and reading the book of mormon again. MIRACLES EXIST my dear fam! 
Here are some pics of a family that I love with my whole heart and their adorable little grandbaby. A little 2 year old stole my heart haha just look at that cute smile! 
I Love you all tons and I hope you have a happyy 4th of July!!!

Lots of love,

Hermana Brimhall

June 20, 2016

We had transfers this week and I get to stay with my hija here in Ambato to finish her training! Whoo Hoo! So I know ill be here at least until august. This week was super busy and we are working hard to find new people to teach. We have some really great less actives that are progressing super well! Our investigators all went out of town for fathers day but we are going to have to forgive them and keep working haha. I had to talk in church yesterday and it went well haha we have to talk in church alot because they always ask us to talk about missionary work every 3rd sunday. The bishop told me to be nice on the ward because there was missionaries before that were really harsh when they gave talks. I shared a few stories about how I was scared to talk to people and share the gospel before and everyone was in tears from laughing so hard haha the bishop was happy. 

I hope you all had a great week! I love you all tons!!
dont lose opportunities to share the gospel!
Here are some pics of the zone and some food from venezuela. We have a less active from venezuela and he cooks super good! 
LOVE YOU TONS!!!!!!!!!!


Hermana Brimhall

June 13, 2016

Hey fam bam! 

all is well here in paradise! 

This week was great! We had an investigator at church and lots of less actives. We are finding some people that are going to progress and had lots of amazing miracles. We have ben contacting like crazy and we contacted a woman that was walking alone and she told us that she didnt want to listen to us but that she had somebody else that needs us. She took us to her house and we taught her son and her husband and we are going to keep working with their little family. The husband is a little hard headed but thats something that the spirit can change. Something that I have learned in the mission is that is doesnt matter how stubborn or tough someone is, when the spirit gets ahold of them they cant deny it.

I was a little discouraged in the passed weeks because we didnt have anybody progressing but I was looking at our weekly planning and we have double the names in ever part than what we started with in week 1 and 2. I know our work hasnt been in vain and that the next tranfer we are going to see lots of miracles and the fruits of our labors!

In one of our lessons that we had this week we were talking about the plan of salvations and explaining about adam and eve and we were talking about how they were innocent like little children and right at that moment the little nephew came running arround the corner with a play gun and shot us all. We all started laughing and the cute little family told us that they are never going to forget that lesson and the important part that adam and eve had in the plan of salvation.

Also in this week we have been working lots in helping my dear companion feel more comfortable and we have been saying "we fear no man" every day haha we were doing it as a joke at first but now its something that we say a lot and it helps us to forget about ourselves and just work, talk, teach, invite, and everything else that we do every day. My companion is super shy (like me bahahahahaha)

I love you tons!! !! I hope you are all doing great!!

Hermana Brimhall


We had a ward talent show and here are some pics


Hey fam bam! 

all is well here in paradise! 

This week was great! We had an investigator at church and lots of less actives. We are finding some people that are going to progress and had lots of amazing miracles. We have ben contacting like crazy and we contacted a woman that was walking alone and she told us that she didnt want to listen to us but that she had somebody else that needs us. She took us to her house and we taught her son and her husband and we are going to keep working with their little family. The husband is a little hard headed but thats something that the spirit can change. Something that I have learned in the mission is that is doesnt matter how stubborn or tough someone is, when the spirit gets ahold of them they cant deny it.

I was a little discouraged in the passed weeks because we didnt have anybody progressing but I was looking at our weekly planning and we have double the names in ever part than what we started with in week 1 and 2. I know our work hasnt been in vain and that the next tranfer we are going to see lots of miracles and the fruits of our labors!

In one of our lessons that we had this week we were talking about the plan of salvations and explaining about adam and eve and we were talking about how they were innocent like little children and right at that moment the little nephew came running arround the corner with a play gun and shot us all. We all started laughing and the cute little family told us that they are never going to forget that lesson and the important part that adam and eve had in the plan of salvation.

Also in this week we have been working lots in helping my dear companion feel more comfortable and we have been saying "we fear no man" every day haha we were doing it as a joke at first but now its something that we say a lot and it helps us to forget about ourselves and just work, talk, teach, invite, and everything else that we do every day. My companion is super shy (like me bahahahahaha)

I love you tons!! !! I hope you are all doing great!!

Hermana Brimhall


We had a ward talent show and here are some pics
Hey fam bam! 

all is well here in paradise! 

This week was great! We had an investigator at church and lots of less actives. We are finding some people that are going to progress and had lots of amazing miracles. We have ben contacting like crazy and we contacted a woman that was walking alone and she told us that she didnt want to listen to us but that she had somebody else that needs us. She took us to her house and we taught her son and her husband and we are going to keep working with their little family. The husband is a little hard headed but thats something that the spirit can change. Something that I have learned in the mission is that is doesnt matter how stubborn or tough someone is, when the spirit gets ahold of them they cant deny it.

I was a little discouraged in the passed weeks because we didnt have anybody progressing but I was looking at our weekly planning and we have double the names in ever part than what we started with in week 1 and 2. I know our work hasnt been in vain and that the next tranfer we are going to see lots of miracles and the fruits of our labors!

In one of our lessons that we had this week we were talking about the plan of salvations and explaining about adam and eve and we were talking about how they were innocent like little children and right at that moment the little nephew came running arround the corner with a play gun and shot us all. We all started laughing and the cute little family told us that they are never going to forget that lesson and the important part that adam and eve had in the plan of salvation.

Also in this week we have been working lots in helping my dear companion feel more comfortable and we have been saying "we fear no man" every day haha we were doing it as a joke at first but now its something that we say a lot and it helps us to forget about ourselves and just work, talk, teach, invite, and everything else that we do every day. My companion is super shy (like me bahahahahaha)

I love you tons!! !! I hope you are all doing great!!

Hermana Brimhall

We had a ward talent show and here are some pics