Ecuador Strike

This week went great, but was weird. The people of Ecuador are in a strike because the gasoline prices went up. The gente went bazerk and started burning stuff.  Consequently, we`ve been trapped in the house for a few days. Saturday, we had to watch conference in a cyber, because the police was watching people that were meeting in large groups, so we couldn`t meet with the members in the church building.  But i think the guy running the cyber (and the little kids playing calll of duty)  enjoyed us blasting the tabernacle choir music. 

The work is going well, Azogues is a little more difficult because the people are very traditional, but there are still people waiting to hear the Restored Gospel.  We had a little bit of time yesterday before we had to go inside, so we knocked on a door and the guy came out shouting, ¨You guys are Latter-day saints, but I`m an ALL-THE-LIFE SAINT!¨ Okay, man, take it easy, Sometimes I would like to respond to people like that in the way of my grandpa, saying ¨coolete hombre¨

I hope you all got a chance to watch conference. I think my favorite talk was by Terence M. Vinson. He said that if we put our hardest into something, it will be more enjoyable. We won`t always have success, but we will always have joy.  That`s true in every aspect of life, not just the Gospel.  Various leaders also repeated the scripture found in Alma 41 that says, ¨wickedness never was happiness¨¨ The world is full of distractions, things that try to offer us a false sense of happiness. True happiness, or every lasting joy, can only be found in the Gospel. 

I invite you all to review your favorite conference talks. I went to conference with about a page full of questions. I found my answer to every single question that I had. We should always have a question in our mind before we listen to leaders of the church, attend sacrament meeting, or before our daily scripture study. If we go in prepared, we will be more spiritually sensitive and receive more inspiration. 

Chao for now