Hermana Harris in Ecuador

¡Feliz Navidad y un feliz año nuevo! This week was a wild one, but to sum it up: - Learned how to use a plunger?!  No, I did not know how to use one before... jaja.  Our toilet was clogged and Hna Achocalla didn`t know how to use a plunger either, so we had to call our district leader for him to tell us how to fix our toilet.  Haha learning some good life skills out here.  - Some weird stuff happened in our house to my comp so the Elders had to come over and bless the house.  Now the only spirit in our house is the Holy Spirit haha. - Ecuador`s got some weird, and I mean WEIRD traditions for New Year.  One of the traditions is that men will dress up as women with wigs and tight dresses, and block traffic.  If the cars don`t pay, the cross dressers make them roll down their windows and they kiss everyone in the car.  That being said, tomorrow we can`t leave the house and the rest of the days we have to be in the house at 6 to avoid being viola...

Feliz Navidad everyone! Well, to explain my title this week, lemme tell ya.  Christmas in Quito is super weird haha, it doesn´t feel like Christmas at all!  People here still listen to the normal spanish rap all the time, never Christmas music, but IF they do listen to Christmas music, it´s Venezuelan children´s songs that don´t sound Christmasy at all!  Hardly anyone has Christmas decorations, and there are no lights anywhere!  So hence why I say, it´s the most seemingly regular time of the year haha. Some highlights from this week: - My favorite thing is being mistaken as a Latina.  Happens all the time and I think it´s so funny.  This week I was talking with a bunch of gringos, and the senior missionaries come in.  The senior missionary Sister can´t speak spanish, and finally after all of us were speaking in Spanish for like 5 mins I think she got sick of it.  So she starts speaking in English and then turns to me and speaks really clearly...

Hello hello everyone, This week has been quite the ride.  This week we had changes, and we found out the Hermanas we share a ward with and us were going to switch companions!  So, my new comp is Hna Achocalla, the hermana I missed Raul`s baptism with, who is also still in her training.  Which means... (drumroll please) I`m training again so I officially have 2 HIJITAS jaja.  My new comp is the sweetest, cutest latina from Bolivia.  We`ve only had 2 days together now but I already love her so much! This past transfer has been such a hard time for me for several reasons, and to be honest, for a while there I honestly thought God forgot about me.  I had never felt so alone.  But on Saturday when I got the transfer call saying I`d be getting a new comp, I felt so so relieved, and I felt silly for ever doubting God`s plan for me.  Hna Achocalla has been the biggest answer to prayers... the Lord really is so mindful of us, even if we may not think s...

Buenas tardes mis amiguitos! To explain the first part of my title, I experienced my first lil earthquake here this Sunday.  I woke up in the middle of the night to our apartment shaking for what felt like forever.  Literally scared the CRAP out of me and I couldn´t fall asleep for the rest of the night.  During church that morning, another temblor happened and everyone flipped!  So that was the highlight of my week. To be honest, this week was so hard.  We had 3 people with fecha (a date to be baptized) at the beginning of the week, but now we only have 1.  It was so disappointing and sad watching people that had testimonies choose not to be baptized anymore!  In addition to that, things have not been going too well with my companion again so that doesn´t help too much either.  Luckily we had intercambios this week so I got to spend a day with Hna Canales, who is one of my good friends, so we got to talk a lot, which made me feel a lot better...

Buenas tardes mis amiguitos! This week was wild.  Long story short, me and the Hermanas we share a ward with both had baptisms one night, and a few hours before the baptism, we got a call from our Hermana Leaders that they were having emergency changes.  Which meant, 2 of the 4 of us had to accompany them to the bus terminal far away to drop off one of them and pick up the new comp of the other.  There were a lot of other things that went on too... to say the least, literally not one thing could have gone worse that day!  I was so irritated all day and couldn´t feel the spirit at all. I had been teaching Raul for a couple months and Hna Kohls and I were the ones that found him, but I didn´t want to make my compa miss the first baptism that she helped with, so I missed it :(  Sad day.  Me and Hna Achocalla (she volunteered to leave because it was more her comp´s baptism than hers too) were sad all night and were praying DURÍSIMO that we could still make ...