Week 27

hi to everyone!!

This week was good! Hermana Sangredi and I are basically pros at finding our way around in our sector now. I still think its a maze but after 6 weeks im finally figuring it out! haha We are still finding lots of new people and working hard! We have some people progressing and getting ready to be baptized in two weeks! whoo hoo! We have one investigator thats my favorite person ever. Shes like 60 years old and the best thing that ever happened to this world. She reciently helpedbake the biggest cake in the world (or so she says). It was an activity for the celebration of the day of the dead. She also is allergic to pretty much everything outside of her house so we asked her if she wanted a blessing and she said yeah! when are they going to come and heal me?! She has great faith of loves going to church and we are going to keep working hard with her! Keep her in your prayers!

OH! I finished the book of mormon in spanish! haha finally! It only took me 6 months! But that doesnt matter haha its still as true as ever! Nothing else really happened this week. Just walkin, talking, and preaching! nothing else. Asi es la vida!

I love you tons and hope you are all doing great!! Have a good week:)

Love,

Hermana Brimhall

Week 26

Hey Everyone!!

I dont have a whole lot of time to write today but I have some good pics! My distict is super fun and our district leader is always pulling pranks on everyone. He has this Whoopie cushon that he brings everywhere and everyone always gives him the craziest looks haha

This week was good though! we are still working hard! We were contacting one day and this little 5 year old boy walks up and goes "hola guapas!" I was dying laughing and I could hardly talk. It was great! We are finding lots of new people still and a lot of new less actives. We are working with a family of less actives and they have been coming to church and are getting ready to go to the temple in december!!! My heart is so happy for them!!! 

We went to this place called Mr. Joy today and its basically like a giant chucky cheese for big people haha its great!

I love you all tons!!!

Love,

Hermana Brimhall

this is what $10 of fruit looks like here in ecuador! its so cheap!

Week 25

Hey everyone!

Im doing great here in Ecuador! Hermana Sangredi is a gem. We are finding lots of new people! This week we found a lady contacting and when we were inviting her to be baptized she told us that she was already baptized into this church. She told us the whole story of how she worked for a lady when she was 17 and she was a member. She now is like 60 or something and she never went to church again after she was baptized because she didnt really understand what was going on .  We were a little confused so we had to have the asistents look her up to see if she was baptized but it turns out since she never went back to church she never got the holy ghost so her baptism was never complete. Now she wants to be baptized and wants to do everything in the right way. She is great and we are working hard with her.

We have a couple that we are teaching and they arent married but they also want to be baptized! The girlfriend is from Colombia and the boyfriend is from the Coast. He talks so fast and I can hardly understand him sometimes because the people from the coast dont pronunciate all the letters. Its great haha for this reason we have a little extra help from God. But they are wonderful and I just love them all. They are great and we have lots more work to do!

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

Love,

Hermana Brimhall

Week 24

Hey Everyone! 

We had cambios today and I got the sweetest little bolivian companion in the whole wide world. Her name is Hermana Sangredi. We just barely got back to our sector because she came from rio bamba so we were in transit place all morning. Im still in Solanda and I only have 3 weeks here so we are going to be learning this sector together! haha its seriously such a maze! Before I came here I was talking about the corn maze and how fun it is and I think this is how Heavenly Father is showing his humor. I get to walk through a maze all day every day! haha

We had such a wonderful experience this week though! We have been working with a lady since I got here and she didnt really have the desires to go to church or anything so we were getting ready to drop her but when we went to visit her this week it was completly different! We started the lesson and she told us that she was going to stay in her house alone this weekend just because she wanted to go to church and her kids were going to Ibarra. She told us that she had recieved her answer that the church is true and she wants to do everything she can to feel it again and get to know more. The spirit was so strong and I just love that woman!! 

All is going really well here! Sad to see Hermana Greer but at least she is still in my zone! She is my hermana leader so I will still get to see her every thursday and when we do divisions. I love you all and hope that you are enjoying hunting season! haha 

PS the pic of the gym is because they know that you (dad) were so buff that they had to name a gym after you..

I LOVE YOU!!

Hermana Brimhall

Week 23

HEY EVERYONE!!:) 

It had to be a good week because Ecuador beat Argentina in soccer haha Everyone here was walking around in their jerseys proud as can be. It was pretty funny because everyone thought they were going to lose but afterwards were all acting like they knew it all along. Oh Ecuador.. haha 

I dont have much news for you this week just that we are doing good and Im still lost in this maze of a sector but Hermana Greer knows where we are so its okay haha. We are finding lots of new people! its great!!

The husband of our pensionista has a birthday this week so today all of us missionaries made them french toast and fruit salad for breakfast. We had a ton of extra fruit salad and they used it all! For once we ate a mountain of fruit instead of a mountain of rice.

I love you all!!! 

Love,

Hermana Brimhall

this note melted my heart haha cutest thing ever. from a cute little girl that we are teaching because her fam are less actives.

Week 22

Dearest fam and friends,

This week was good! Hermana Greer and I are working hard! Our sector is seriously a maze. Im glad she was here for a cambio and a half before me because im so lost all the time hahaha! There are all these secret passages and inside each one is a million houses!But its great!Im starting to fall in love with this sector too. The people here are so sweet. Nobody here can really say Brimhall so one family called me Hermana Brigham Young!haha My momma (Hermana Roach) is in my zone now too!! Shes my hermana leader so Ill get to do divisions with her! Hermana Greer is the greatest in the whole wide world!!! I love her so much and we work great together and have lots of fun along the way! We also have this family of less actives that own a cake shop and its dangerous! Im going to get so chubby here haha I eat cake or cookies or something fromthem like every time we pass by! 

OH AND THE BEST news is that we have a washer!!!!!!! yay!!! The other house we had to hand wash and take some stuff to the laundry mat. Im so grateful for washers.Pretty mush nobody here has dryers though but there is a clothes line on the top of our house whcih works just as good haha

Im doing good and loving the mish!! I love you are all doing good and I love you all tons!!!!!!!!!!

Love,

Hermana Brimhall

President Christensen showed up at our zone activity today and he kicked the soccer ball over the fence.as you can tell everyone was a little disappointed including him hahaha

Week 21

Hey fam! We have emergency transfers so I will be getting back on the computer later but this week was good! The doctor wants me in a sector without hills so Im getting transfered to Turubamba. My new companion is Hermana Greer and she is from the good ol St. Johns AZ! We played volleyball against eachother but never met eachother until the mish! haha Im sad to leave Hermana Molina! But All is well!:)
I learned a valuble lesson this week haha! We were contacting and we knocked on the door of this guy and when he opened it I was a little scared to be honest. He has full tatttoos and he has a scar on his hand that is some gang/devil sign that looks like he did it with a knife. Hermana Molina and I just acted like nothing happened and introduced ourselves but the both of us were a little freaked out when we left. Yesterday we had a lesson with him and got to know him better but we found out he is only 16 years old and his mom died of cancer when he was little. He doesnt really understand who God is or know his purpose in this life. By the end of the lesson I seriously just wanted to hug him and cry cuz his life is so rough but he wants to learn more about the gospel. He is one of those people that need the gospel the most!! Everyone (no matter how scary they look) need the opportunity to feel the love of the savior in their life. 

Today my sweet convert Jennifer made me shrimp and all sorts of yummy stuff for lunch before I leave! I didnt know it was going to be so tough to leave my peeps of Conocoto! I think a little piece of my heart will be here forever!

I love you all tons! Im doing good and loving the work! Im excited to learn a new sector and meet more amazing people!! Have a great week!!!!

Love,

Hermana Brimhall