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I Love Michigan!!!

Hello friends and family!!

This week was a week of miracles here in Ponceano!  To explain my subject line, our area is a tiny area of city that´s in the exact shape of Michigan haha.  My old area was 6 hours by bus to get from one side to the other, and my new area is 40 minutes wide by walking.  It´s super fun here, it´s insanely hilly - think San Francisco but the lowest point is at 10,000 feet.  My legs are dead but hopefully I´ll be super muscular by the time I leave this area in a while haha!  Surprisingly, the people here are a lot more receptive to the gospel (they have a ton moee money in my new area).  We found a ton of people last week and we should have 5 people with baptismal dates this week!

Funny story of the week: Everyone in my old area thought I was chinese, but everyone here thinks I´m latina (don´t know how that happened?) haha.  During a lesson this week, the woman we were teaching called me out and asked me why I wasn´t talking as much as my comp... I explained that I had only been in Ecuador for less than a month and couldn´t speak very well, but she didn´t believe me and told me she thought I was a psychological genius trying to figure out if she was lying!  My comp and I were dying laughing!

Some more lil facts about la vida Quiteña:
- Everyone from the coast only eats with spoons, even when eating meat!
- Everyone here is late to everything.  You can be an hour late to something and still be "on time"
- Everyone has a clock on their wall in their home, but none of them work!

Pics:
- Intercambios!
- Remind me never to dye my hair pink or purple, whatever color this is.  A member had this wig at her house and had us try it on, and hallelujah for not getting lice from it!
- PANNNNN!  There are panaderias on every corner and bread costs 25 cents so we get some at least twice a day.
- KFC for the win (KFC is a super nice restaurant here!)
- This cutie hung out with us the entire day at our finding activity!
- Our booth

Remember God loves you!!  I hope yáll have a great week!

Con muchísimo amor,
Hermana Harris

Intercambios!
Remind me never to dye my hair pink or purple, whatever color this is.  A member had this wig at her house and had us try it on, and hallelujah for not getting lice from it!
PANNNNN!  There are panaderias on every corner and bread costs 25 cents so we get some at least twice a day.
  KFC for the win (KFC is a super nice restaurant here!)
- This cutie hung out with us the entire day at our finding activity!
Our booth

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