Feb 25: The Book of Mormon is True!

This week was a lot better. My legs are finally starting to get used to walking 10 miles a day. It's rained every single day this week, and man it's cold here. We have been really struggling to find people here. We came into this area with nothing, and spend around 4 hours tracting every day but haven't seen the success that we would like. Only gotta keep working.

This week I finished the Book of Mormon again, my second time on the mission. I, of course, took the promise of Moroni to see if it's really true or not and if my time here is even worthwhile. A couple days later I had the opportunity to go on exchanges with another elder in my district, Elder Sherman. He is still pretty new with around 9 months, we spent the day in his area contacting and teaching some lessons. While we were contacting I noticed my Spanish was really sounding good, like I was able to speak very fast on certain things and word out my sentences. We taught a lesson that night to a recent convert about the importance of temple work and attending temples. That is when I really saw the Gift of Tongues in action. I swear man, it was great. As we were in the middle of the lesson, I just felt so happy and so comfortable with myself and I knew it was the answer to my prayer. I am so grateful for the  Book of Mormon, and the promise we all have to know if it really is true. 

That's pretty much it. Today we visited the Virgin Mary statue and the Huge Catholic Church which are 2 of Ecuador's biggest landmarks. The church is true. My Dad is now a second counselor in the bishopric hahahaha.

Have a great week,

Elder Rich

Virgin of El Panecillo in the background. 

We hiked up today and saw all the views.
The Virgin of Quito is the highest statue in Ecuador.

Few pictures of Basílica del Voto Nacional - a Roman Catholic church we went and toured.

It was so pretty!

It's rained here almost every day since I got here.