TEMPLE...........IN.............QUITO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mama,

WELL CAN YOU BELIEVE HOW BLESSED THIS LITTLE COUNTRY OF MINE IS BEING? WELL A LOT BECAUSE WE ARE GETTING ANOTHER TEMPLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I CAN'T EVEN STAND IT AT ALL. I YELLED TOO, WITH ALL YOU AND THOUGHT HOW BLESSED MY BEAUTIFUL ECUADORIAN PEOPLE ARE AND HOW I WILL BE AT THAT DEDICATION IN JUST A FEW SHORT YEARS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Okay I will stop using capslock but I mean I had to get the excitement out and it was the only way to get it to you because I cant do it any other way. It is just such a huge blessing that we have been praying for....well many have been praying for for a very very long time. We are so blessed to have so many temples in this crazy world. Where we can go and enter into the real life and have the instruction of our Heavenly Father. I am just so blessed to be here at this time. I love the temple and love Ecuador and the 2 together just make it even better!!!

Well sounds like you have had a wonderful week. With lots of little different things to do. That is super great and makes me very happy.

Well another abnormal missionary week has happened yet again. I had to go to Quito (cough cough....where the temple will be built ;P) with my companion this time. She has to go to the US embassy and have her interview to get her visa. She got it!! She will be leaving the 11 of abril(April) and will go to the MTC in Provo and then to her mission in Rochester New York. That was another crazy trip to Quito. And makes our life a little bit more crazy. We have to have her all ready and set, like I am her mom, to go to her mission in another country. We have to make sure she has all her paper work done and have to go back to Quito again to receive her passport with her visa for her flight on the 11th. Craziness. I feel sometimes I get put into crazy situations like this to make me even more grateful for the time that I do have to work with these wonderful people. Not that I don't give thanks for it every single day but that it makes it even more special for me when I do.

The familia Bermudez had a few registros(record) issues to be married this past week. They haven't made it from Colombia yet but soon very soon. Please pray to help us find a way to get everything in order!!

Well as you all know General Conference was this passed weekend. And was better than Christmas. I loved it so much and am so grateful for the time that I have to be able to listen to the prophets, seers, and revelators of our time in this crazy world. Every single word was inspired to help us and allow us to feel the spirit to grow and change. One of my very favorites was by Elder Eyring. It was an answer to a question. How can I show my love for the Savior even more?? To become closer to him. To make the choice not only during the conference but during my whole life that I can become closer to him and choose to move in the direction towards him rather than away. The way to do that is to make the choice and then be confident in following the Holy Ghost and through him you will get closer to him. I also loved the talk from Elder Ballard. I have learned too that it is the best way to overcome problems through talking and counseling together. There is no other way and when we do that we are stronger together than we are apart. The last one I really loved....that I would like to mention because I loved every single one and learned a ton.....was from Elder Holland. The love that He was able to share was masterful. It wasn't just the love but the message that I get points for trying. I am not going to be perfect in this life and will make mistakes but my Heavenly Father loves me infinitely and will never change that. I have been struggling a bit with self doubt for a while here in the mission. That I am not good enough and struggling to grow and change but with that I know that I am able to to do all this through the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. I know he lives and loves each of us. I love you all and hope you have a wonderful week. Keep studying the Conference talks they are truly scripture.

LOVE YOU!!
Hermana Hullç

PS I haven't got any of the cards yet or packages but I hope this week because we will get pouch

Worry Less, Trust God More

Mama,

Wow that sounds like quite the week you have had. I can't believe that terrorist attack. I don't hear anything about things like that ever and so that is a huge surprise. That is such a blessing with those missionaries. But I know that we are protected. I have felt it many times in my mission. The Lord protects his Servants and all his children. We have to live righteously but he will protect us and I know that he will not let us leave until we have done what we need to. I love his plan and love giving that hope to everyone through their Savior Jesus Christ.

Crazy that Denver got cancelled. That stinks so bad. I remember some soccer games like that or Ultimate as well, when you are just so stinkin excited to play and have fun and then you get told you cant that stinks super bad but you guys made the best of it and did tons in the two day you were down in Salt Lake.

ARE YOU ALL AS EXCITED AS I AM FOR CONFERENCE THIS WEEK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WOOHOOO It is such a blessing to be able to listen to the Lords chosen Servants every 6 months. It is better than Christmas. We are able to learn and grow and find answers and truly know what the Lord would have us do. Let me know of your experiences next week from conference. Favorite Quotes, talks or impressions you had!! I am excited to hear them!!!

This week was absolutely Crazy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So that Monday I got an email that I had to go to Quito Tuesday night to renew my visa Wednesday morning. I couldn't believe it had been that long. So I left Tuesday night with Hermana Contreras and we got our visas renewed. (my comp stayed with the comp of Hermana Contreras) I got there and got to stay with Hermana Pingree and Hermana Dorta. That was super fun. And we got to celebrate the(birthday) cumpleanos de Hermana Dorta. That was a fun night and I got to see all the peeps from my group to renew our visas. It was weird. Kind of like a trip but not. But fun nonetheless.

Best part of the week though was Victor´s baptism. He was so excited and gave a powerful testimony. Short but so good!! He was super excited and had a wonderful time and just beamed as he came up out of the water. We sang I am a Child of God in English and Spanish for him. That was such a blessing and now he has the Holy Ghost too. He is on his way to become an awesome future Missionary :D

The familia Bermudez is getting married this week!!! #miracles I love them and they are doing so well. Just a few obstacles they have to faith through...like work on Sunday. But that is coming along because they are looking for work. They are fantastic.

So to my title. I have come to find that this is such a true statement. But first I had to learn that trusting God is the only way. There is no other way to live. I think in life that sometimes we find ourselves in a situation or with an investigator or just whatever it may be and we think no I got this. We think that God doesn't need to worry about this little bit of our lives because we can do it fine without him. That we know what it best for ourselves and we can do it. But that so isn't true. God no matter how big or small it is knows best. We just have to be willing to trust him to help us find the answer. He wont just give it to us. It requires a bit of effort on our part...some faith and maybe some hard days. But as we put our trust in him...as we yield our hearts to his will than we will truly find what we need and become more than we could ever make of ourselves. He is all powerful and knows all things. As we truly put our trust in him not matter what the situation I know he will help us. I have to trust in him more. I am not perfect in this but he is perfecting me as I learn to do this. It is a process of a lifetime  and will ever be. But he has created a perfect plan for us to become perfect like he is. I love him and his gospel. I love this work and all that we are able to do because of it!!!! This is just a scripture to go along with this though :D

Mosiah 4:9
 Believe in God; believe that he is, and that he created all things, both in heaven and in earth;believe that he has all wisdom, and all power, both in heaven and in earth; believe that man doth not comprehend all the things which the Lord can comprehend.

Love you all tons and hope you have a splendid week!!!!!!!!!
LOVES!!!!!!!
Hermana Hull

¨¨This is Real Life¨¨ -Elder Holland

Mama,

Your weeks seem to be getting busier and busier as they go by. The snow must be gone or almost right with all this outside activity. Sounds like a whirlwind of a time with all this Ultimate and good fun stuff y'all keep doing. I love to hear about it.
I am so excited to see how Jaden plays. I will have to get back into Ultimate shape and out of missionary shape to ever even come close to all that he does now. He sounds like a Beast!!

I got a bunch of letters from the primary this week. They are so cute and I love there little drawings. It made me feel really loved and miss my calling as a primary teacher. I didn't want to at first but then it became the best calling ever. I mean that is just where the basics are in the Gospel and that is what I am teaching here. I love Primary. I will also be sending a letter soon back so be looking for that in the next couple weeks :D

As you talked about the temple dedication and how we live in the temporary world and the temple is the real world I just couldn't help think how very true that is. It is such a blessing to go to the temple and to have so many around the world to be protected from the evils of this world and go a visit the real world for a while. I also couldn't help to think about Elder Holland talking to us about the mission. I feel that this time is also as he put it ¨¨real life¨¨ time. I know that is true. Like really true. This is real life. Some may think that a mission is just a year and a half or two years to get away from there problems and live in the dream world. That is so untrue. Everything I have done, do and have yet done have meant so much more in my life than any other moment of my life. I am not only changing myself but am fighting for the Salvation of other souls. It is the hardest work in this whole world but also the most rewarding work any human being could ever in all there life do. :D

So this week went like a blur. Every week just keeps going faster and faster and it is crazy how the time is going. But that does not stop us from seeing tons of miracles and blessings. First I would like to tell you of Victor. He is 9 years old and is getting baptized this Saturday!!! He is from San Lorenzo and his mom was menos activo(less active). She has changed and is now active and reading every day. Victor we were a little worried with how he understood what we were teaching but when he had his entrevista(interview) with our district leader, Elder Dickerson said that he truly gets it!! That is truly a miracle!! Keep praying for him this week to make it to his fecha(date).
Also another huge miracle is that the Familia Bermudez has fecha(date) to get married. We fasted with them this passed Thursday and now they are prepping for that. They are seeing a ton of opposition right now and need as many prays as they can get. They are progressing and truly have the desire to come unto Christ and I have never been so blessed to be apart of something like this. I feel they are part of the reason I am here in Ibarra. To help them make it to there goal of being a forever family.

We have seen many more miracles this week and have been so blessed. I am learning more and ore ever single day and know that the Lord is in all things. I love the video that the church came out with for this Easter season and I truly can say I have found new life in Jesus Christ!
HALLELUJAH!!!
I love him and give him my all. He is my King of Kings and Lord of Lords and I will always follow him!!
www.mormon.org/easter/hallelujah (if you haven't seen it go and watch it now!)

Love you all tons and hope you have a wonderful week!!
Love
Hermana Hull

PS I will let you know about school...gotta think a bit
PPS Love you tons!!!!

The Familia Bermudez

Victor and his siblings

Ibarra....La Ciudad Blanca

Mama,

That sounds like a wonderful week full of food and adventures and wonderfulness going to Seattle and seeing some awesome Ultimate be played. What was the decision for Disneyland??

Okay sounds good with my card. Just keep me updated.

I am feeling a lot better without the parasite. My ankle is good and my knee is my knee but it is all well. We are running in the morning a lot more now and that feels wonderful!!!

I will let you know when I get the package.

Ibarra isn't big city but isn't quite as country as Otavalo but it is so good to have this change. I love it a lot and am learning a lot and just feel so good here. I don't know how long I will be with Heremana Cortez because she is visa waiting so it could come this week or in the next 3 months. The average is about 2 cambios and she is in her second so really I don't know but I expect that it will probably mostly this change.

About school. I don't know what to do yet. I am a little concerned about heading straight back like 3 days after I get home but then i don't know. I thought about going to USU for a semester and then heading to BYU-I, I also have thought about just working and then going to BYU-I, then I also thought about just going to USU and then I thought about applying to BYU Provo and seeing where that takes me. I just really don't know what to do. What do you think would be the best option??

I love Ibarra. It is a great change and I am in a great branch full of great members. We found a lot of new people this past week and are loving the time we have with each of them. I am learning a ton and we are having a great time. Happy news is that I am in an awesome district with Hermana Cardenas and Hermana Israelsen. I know them both from other zones and they are just awesome.
It is a lot hotter here than in Quito. I don't even have to sleep with more than one blanket. It is amazing!!
We set up a table an contacted for like 2 and 1/2 hours this past Saturday. We looked a little like Jehovah Witnesses with all the missionaries there but it was fun.
We are working with some really awesome people. One family is really great. They are refugees from Colombia and are truly changing. They have to get married but ya mismo(right now) because they truly have desires to change. I mean the hermana was smoking like 4 packs a day and now has quit. It is crazy please pray for them. The familia Bermudez.
Also for
Victor
Heidi
Damaris
Janeth
Cynthia
Johnathan
Julis
Gustavo
Marta
Luisa
and just miracles in general. I know if we joint our faith together the miracles will come to us here and you there!!
I love the mission and love the gospel!! I hope you have a great week and know how much I love you!! Keep moving forward with great faith!! I love you tons sorry not a very good letter this week.
Love
Hermana Hull

The craziness of life is so fun sometimes!!

Mama,
Sounds like another full week of just wonderful things that you are doing. I am a little confused about who moved with Jaden´s help?? But other than that it sounds like a wonderful time that you are having!!!!

I am doing good. My parasite should be gone with some pills that I took over the past week and Hermana Ukle gets here stitches out tomorrow. But I won't be there because changes happened yesterday. It was really hard because tons of people were saying goodbye to me and it was just full of goodbyes. Even though it was a rough sector for me, learning about myself, I really love Carcelen and am so glad for the time I had there. No one said goodbye to Hermana Ukle but they should have because she got changed as well. They closed the sector and now it is combined with the Elders Sector. So that was a huge surprise. Hermana Ukle is done with her training and is now in Zona Imbabura (this is the zone where Karabuela is :D) but she is in sector of Cotama.

Now you may be all wondering where I am in the world....well let me tell you :D

I am now in Ibarra. It is about a half hour north of Otavalo so I saw Otavalo and Karabuela. What  great thing that was. But it is all branches here and so that is super cool and I am super excited to work here. :D My new comp is Hermana Cortez. She is from Quito, Ecuador. This isn't her mission she is visa waiting to go to her real mission in New York in the Hill Cumorah Visitors Center. But since she is here she is in her training and so I am still a trainer. That is cool because I get 4 hours of study still which is a huge blessing!! She is great and is 19 and full of energy and so this should be a great change in all the ways that it has happened.

I just am so grateful for you guys and hope you have a wonderful week. I know that Jesus Christ is our Savior and he loves us so much. I know this is his work and he is guiding us every step of the way. I know that we are loved by our Father in Heaven and he is truly there for each of us. I know that through the atonement we receive 3 amazing gifts. First forgiveness. I feel this is a huge one that we are able to be able to truly be clean of all our sins so that one day we can enter the kingdom of God. Second Grace. It is the enabling power we receive that we are able to truly become true followers of Christ every day of our lives. We are really blessed to be able to do these things not only in our own power but with his. And Third, the Resurrection. Where we will be able to overcome the physical death just like he did so that we are able to live as a family forever. These 3 gifts are essential and are truly the way to happiness. I know there is so much I have yet to learn of the Atonement of my Savior but I am so glad I have the knowledge that I do. He LIVES!!!

I love you all tons and hope you have a marvelous week!!!
LOVE YOU
Hermana Hull

Zona Ofelia

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FHE with the Cangui family

Erika y Andres Sevilla with ther Baby :D

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Everyone says at your year crazy things happen.....they aren't kiddin!!

Mama,

Thanks so much for getting all that stuff for me. You are seriously the bestest ever!

Sounds like a great week that you have had. I am happy to hear that it is warming up and melting that snow. I just want it spring so we will be in the same temperature again. Haha because it is no fair that you get all the snow! haha ;D

I had no idea that Sky View went to 5A that is super legit and to take second is awesome. I was talking about basketball the other day while falling asleep. I just can't believe it has been two seasons since I played. Time just keeps flying bad!

I am happy all is going well with you at home and that you are all still happy and living strong in the Gospel.....

I guess it is about time in my letter to well get onto my week, huh....

Well first and foremost I have to say that my title to this email is ......as sad as it is.....is very very true. Yes I did hit my year mark this past week but that is not any of what actually went on that was exciting.

Most the time I send the usual....my week was a pretty normal missionary week......but this week was nothing and I mean nothing of a normal missionary week.....Let me tell you.

First and foremost....I am not dying and neither is my companion. We were just very, very sick little missionaries for 2 days, that we could not even get out of bed. You might be wondering what did you catch but it was different for the both of us. She had some sort of cold and mine....after a process of exams....has been found to be a parasite.
So Tuesday night at about 1:30 am I could sleep at all because my stomach was hurting and then at about 3:30 I threw up.....sorry to say it but it wasn't my week. I didn't throw up again but I felt awful and I mean awful but now I feel better and am taking pills to kill the little thing that has caused me so much pain. I completed a year in bed....by the way.

But this is not all to the poor story of the week I completed a year.....on Saturday night. We were in the house going through the carpeta de area(area book) trying to call a few people to find some new investigators. We had finished and were headed out and I ran to the bathroom real quick and the next thing I know I found my companion with a huge bloody hueco(hole) in her finger in which she had put in a bowl of water. I had to use my first aid skills (thank goodness for girls camp) and took it out and wrapped it to try and stop the bleeding and treat her for shock because all she could say was....."I did something dumb and President is going to be so mad"..... I found out that while I was in the bathroom she was trying to fix a rack we have to dry clothes and a metal bar broke and took a huge chunk of her finger with it. It wouldn't stop bleeding and was huge gash so we got a hold of the nurse and headed to the hospital. Let me just say we were not home on time.....like home at 11pm....because we were at the hospital for 5 hours and my comp now has about 18 stitches in her finger and can't write because she is right handed and can't use it at all.

So as to say that statement is really true. I was going to do some nice poem-like email but I think the blood and nastiness fit this week :P

I just want to share that I know Christ is my Savior. I know faith is power. I was reading in Enos today and love that book with my whole heart. It is probably my favorite now. It is because of faith we can learn from it. I mean he had the faith enough to ask for his enemies that they would receive the gospel and be saved. He was promised that they would and what I have found is that is truly happening and I am apart of it. I am taking this gospel to the Lamanite people. They are the literal ancestors. How cool is that. I know through faith we can see miracles like Enos. I invite you to study that chapter this week and you will learn more too!!

Love you all!! A TON!!!!
Hermana Hull

PS Us in bed as sickies
PPS Found some Hermanas at lunch
LOVE YOU

I understand more.....

Mama!!

I am so super excited to go to DISNEYLAND with the Band. That is super cool and such a neat experience that they have to be able to do that and enjoy that before the band...sniff...sniff... gets split into different schools. Do you know what they are going to do with that or will everything just be separate??

Sounds like you have had a wonderful week and that you are doing well. Does Jodi still work at Shopko?? Who else is not there?? If Jodi is still there could you get her email?? That is crazy. People change. Everything in my mind is still the same there. That is what you get when you have been away so long!!

Thanks for that about Jasmine. It helps a lot.. And now i am missing the wedding but it is okay. It is all the plan of Dios(God) and he is the one that knows what I need.....I also realized I am now going to be closer to being an aunt....so that is an upside :D Haha

I am just so happy for you all and that you are all in so many different things. When i first started my mission I just wanted everything at home to pause now I see how wrong that would have not just because it is impossible but because that would stunt the growth that each of you has. It is super fun to be able just through email to see how much we have all grown up physically...well some...cough..cough...Jaden... to how each of us is growing everyday more spiritually. That is such a huge blessing to us and such a way that we can is only through God´s Plan for us and the Atonement of our Savior Jesus Christ. I am super thankful for all the ways I have grown and continue to do so as i am being a missionary and representative of my Savior Jesus Christ!!

So this week was super awesome. It went by like a flash and I don't remember most of it but the highlight was definitely ELDER HOLLAND. He is such a powerful speaker and to be able to shake his hand and feel the peace that an Apostle of the Lord can bring was absolutely stunning. He spoke to us very directly and stated many times not to waste a single minute of our mission because really it is one of the most pivotal parts of our lives. Really it was such a blessing and also a powerful recuerdo(remembrance) of what I am doing here as a missionary. ¨¨The Salvation of a Human Soul is not an easy thing.¨¨Elder Holland. I know this is true. That is what we are trying to do every day as missionaries to bring people to the knowledge of the truth and it is hard but soo soo sooo worth it. Every door that is slammed in our face, every hard day, every sickness, to be a missionary is worth it. It is not easy but it is super worth it!!

I just can't believe how fast time flies and how blessed we are to be in this Gospel. Stay strong, Pray Hard, and study often and all will work out for our good!!
Love you tons!!
From the wet Hermana Hull.....freak storm outside.... :D

PS i would love some lavender and floss threaders in a package..and american candy is always good :D
PPS Could you send a homemade ice cream recipe to??

LOVE YOU TONS!!!!

Ecuador Quito North Mission

Meeting Elder Holland