Elder Smith 18 Jan 2010

Hello family,
How is everyone doing at home? I hope all that is well and that everyone had a good week. We are about to finish another change. Hard to believe how fast the time goes by. The good part is that we have been keeping really busy. We are getting ready for a baptismal service in the zone this coming up Saturday. It should be a really good turnout. The missionaries have all been working very diligently. My companion is still working well too, enduring to the end haha. This week we have a lot to get done so the time will go by even faster than normal. We have a few baptism interviews to do, two interchanges, inspections of all the houses of the Elders and to make sure everything is ready for the baptisms Saturday.
As far as the work goes in our own sector, it’s been pretty slow. Defiantly less than what I have gotten use to here in the mission. We have been trying to find new people to teach and we have had very little success. We put together a small plan with the members so that they could talk with their neighbors so we are looking forward to receiving references from them. We have knocked a lot of doors and that was not a very successful way to find people even though we did find one sister that was very interested and we taught her two times and she accepted a baptism date, we were excited for her and for the lesson that we had taught and we were leaving her house when her son calls and says that they are going to be moving to Portoviejo, hopefully she will be able to find the church and the missionaries there.
Not too much more going on here in Ecuador. Staying busy, trying to help the people here in Quevedo find the happiness that every one of us as sons and daughter of our Heavenly Father deserves. Hope that all is well at home. Looking forward to hearing back from everyone this week.
Elder Smith