Hermana Pack 2013-2015: "Hola mi amor"

The parrot that fell into our backyard, but he is the pet of our neighbor. Siempre està cantando "Hola mi amor"

Iguana just chillin in the back yard...

A little chick in the house of which we ate lunch. AHHH So cute. Literally had been living only one day. Crazy.

Chocobananos

Yamilet and I :)

Yulecxi, Junior and I.

More of the family of yamilet and yulecxi

Seriously love this family so much.

Hola.
SO much to write about and send, and so many photos but just not enough time to do it all. Photos just take so much time.
But first off GERMANY WONNNNNNNN!!!!! Danielle I was praying for ya tons because I was so worried about all the partying and drinking.... But hopefully everything turned out okay. I cannot believe they won!! I didn´t get to watch the game. But I sure heard when they got a goal hahaha. Too good.
This past week has been a blur. But the Mission President came to Santa Rosa and we had a multizone conference with Santa Rosa Sur and Norte. It was so good. I love the President so much.

With my mission President. Presidente Torres

In the conference with the preident with Elder Alvey and Elder Castillo and Hermana Roncal

With the Asistants to the president Elder Arana and Elder Ramirez and with my zone leader Elder Ortega, ex assistant to the president.

I was able to take a photo with him. I was pretty excited about that! He also on the spot turned over the time to the Hermana Leaders and Zone Leaders and I almost wet my pants.... or my skirt haha. But seriously we hadn´t prepared anything. But it turned out really good because we just turned the time over to the spirit and spoke haha. It was so good. We talked a lot about unity. And as I was listening to the president I realized that all of the attributes that I am learning here will be so beneficial for me when I am married or after my mission. Crazy how things work. But really the mission is the best decision for me. I love being here with Hermana Roncal. I also love Santa Rosa. I just love love love it here! More than anything I love seeing the changes in people. So many great things happened this week.

This next week we have two baptisms of Ambar Camacho and Jean Carlos Alvarez. It would be cool if you all could pray for them. Thanks.

I love you all and appreciate your prayers.

Love you tons,

Hermana Pack

A swing outside of the house of another place where we have lunch.

My zone leader Elder Kindred´s missionary handbook fell into the baptismal font while we were cleaning it hahaha

Cooking chicken on a good Pday hahahahaha

Hey,

So this week was really good. Today we had transfers. I AM SO TIRED. Hermana Roncal was transferred to Cuenca hahahahaha. Good ole Cuenca. But yeah we got called at 11 at night and had to pack everything up and head out at 3 in the morning. I also found out I really just cannot sleep on buses. But yeah probably one of the more tiring Pday´s I have had in a while. But my new companion is Hermana Angulo from Argentina. She has just a little bit more time than I do in the mission. And we are the Hermana Leaders here in Santa Rosa. Crazy to think of how quickly time flys. It feel like I just got here and it has been two months already. But I am really excited to be working with Hermana Angulo. I don´t really know much about Argentina so that will be exciting to get to know.

Hey mom I did receive your package!! Thank you so much!!! I was pretty dang excited!! I loved everything. Most of all I was super stoked about the camera!! Thank you!

This past week was the baptism of Jean Carlos Alvarez. Ambar decided that she needed a little more time to prepare for baptism. But yeah I don´t think it will be much longer. Jean was so excited for his baptism it was so cute. It really was a good baptism. He really is a good kid and has had a really hard home life.

The baptism of Jean Carlos Alvarez.

But something I want to share with you was a lesson we had this past week. We taught the mom of Javier Romero who was baptized last week and while we were teaching her it was so clear to me how much the spirits on the other side of the vail are helping and rooting/praying for us. I could feel the presence of her husband who had past away sitting there with us. I don´t know it was really an amazing lesson and we could feel the spirit so strong. I know that we are not in this labor alone. All of the spirits are there to guide us as well as the inspiration of the Holy Ghost. It just really blows my mind away at how amazing this gospel is.

Anyway until next week! I love you all!

Hermana Pack

PS- why was Rexburg flooding!?! Crazy. Did the harps get damaged??

OH! and dad your story about your investigator from your mission being in our stake is pretty dang awesome!! I hope one day to have stories like that! OH! and please tell the family hi for me!! I love them all tons! And that I have the big photo of the family up above my desk where I study. It cracks me up because always the first thing people say is wow..... so many white people hahahahahaha. Kills me. Anway love ya!

These leaves are the leaves they use to make the dollar bills...... SO MUCH MONEY in my hands hahahahaha

Llamas!!!!

Hola,

I absolutely loved loved loved your story about the missionary discussion..... hahahahaha. Nothing is better than the good ole pack family circus. But really though.

This week has been a good week for me. I have enjoyed my time with Hermana Angulo. She is really chill. We have been super busy this week. This week we met and taught a girl who is half Chinese who is a daughter of a less active and it went really well. She accepted a date for baptism and came to church this Sunday. But the thing is she literally lived sooooo far away from the church. And from all of our other lessons during the day... Yikes. But she is adorable. She is 18 and has an 8 month old daughter. Her name is Deyne Chu.

Today for P day we decided to visit Cholo at his work, and he works as a gardener of a house that is LOADED. Like seriously I have never ever seen a house like that here in Ecuador.

Cholo!!! Our grandpa of the Branch. hahahaha! Recently was baptized this year!

It is nicer than those of the states!! They have a pet monkey shipped in from Africa!!!!

So something I have been studying this last week was third Nephi. And something I was reading in Chapter 26 and 27 was about how we are going to be judged by what is written in the bible and in the Book of Mormon. I was honestly thinking how important it is for us to be reading the Book of Mormon every day. Because if we aren`t then it is impossible for us to know what the lord will judge us upon. It was kind of mind blowing to think about, but not only this was I thinking about but as well as a part of the scripture that says we will be given more and more knowledge as we study. And that we first are given little things to learn and then we come to know much more marvelous things. I can`t wait to know all of these marvelous things. I know that this gospel is so true. and I know that if we read the Book of Mormon we can know this to be true. I know that God loves me and that I am his daughter. I am so grateful to be here and to have had the family I have. Thank you for everything. Mom give everyone a big hug for me out there and tell Grandpa Ivie I love him and tell Grandpa and Grandma Pack that I pray for them often and love them deeply.

Love you all,

Hermana Pack

I was pretty proud of myself. I caught the baby chick and picked it up all by myself!! And it`s so adorable and little!

Sooooo cute!

Cooking chifles with Cholito!!

After church this Sunday with Hermano Javier, after he blessed the sacrament for the first time!!! I almost cried!! It was so great to see and hear him up there!