Bittersweet......

Hi mama!!

Well sounds like you just had a fantastic time on your trip and had lots of fun and good food. So that sounds like a win!! Did the group from Otavalo have there long braids and use ponchos??

Well this week was a bit of a bittersweet!!
We are seeing sooo many miracles here in our sector and are being super blessed but also we had our final meeting with President and Hermana Richardson. They literally have been such a big blessing to my life and really have helped me change and become a better missionary and person!! So the feels are real man!!

So first one of the sweets!! Hermana Sam Yorgason and I were able to have divisions together and so we spent 24 hours together as missionaries and loving the work. It was fun to see how we both have changed and grown while being missionaries but also to be able to talk about the blessing we received at home that helped us each make it to this point in our lives. Like good families, Young Womens leaders, friends, and just situations that we went through. That was a fun day. But crazy to think that two white girls from the same home ward in the middle of Ecuador speaking Spanish each other is just cool isn't it.

The next day was a bit of the bitter with the final meeting of President and Hermana Richardson. It was soo good and really we just felt the spirit so strong. It is just weird that something that has been so big in my mission is just changing so quickly. But I have been so blessed to know them and to learn from them. They really a huge examples to me!!!!

Another sweet was to be able to just work and see some big miracles. Like some new families and investigators and then having the chance to help with the branch activity and then having two rescues on Sunday. The lord really is blessing me.

Something that was a real bittersweet was something I learned yesterday. We were in a lesson with a new family that we had just found. We were teaching about the family and how that families can be forever!! Well the hermana just looked at us and said "I hope that is true." That is the first time in her life that she has heard that. That was the bitter for me. But the sweet is that we were able to bring that knowledge to her and invite her to pray to know for herself that it is true. I have always taken for granted that I have the knowledge of a forever family. It has been something that I have known since I knew the words to 'Families can be together Forever' when I was 4 years old. That is a hope that I carry everyday of my life and to know that some people have never heard that makes is so hard. I just want to scream it to the world. But really it is such a blessing because I am a carrier of that knowledge and love that the Lord has given to me in this sacred responsibility of being a missionary. I love this work and the fact that I am a carrier of "Good News" to all the people I visit and teach and come in contact with even if it just a little smile and a contact in the street. They can know that they have a loving Heavenly Father and that there family can be forever.
These things I know to be true and I love the faith and hope I have in them!!

Love you all a ton!! Have a great week!!!
Love
Hermana Hull

Well, the week went well!

Mama,

Sorry this is going to be a short one but I hope to make it up in the pics.

I had a good week full of miracles. I got to go to lunch at the house of the mission with my group because the Richardsons wanted us to have one with them, because well we only have one change after they go home. So that was super great.

We found lots of new investigators that are really ready for the Gospel and want to know more. We also found a family. They are great!!

Yaruqui is beautiful.

I know that Christ is my Savior and he loves me!! Keep being firm in the Gospel! It is happiness!!!

Love you tons!!
Hermana Hull

Well....(some sort of cool title)

Hey Mama,

Sounds like the wedding was a success and everything went well. I am super happy for Jasmine and she looked beautiful!!!!!!!! It is good to hear how everything went and how the rest of the week was good.

Well first off I am feeling better. Don't have a fever or anything like that anymore. Just having some problems with my back but you know that is okay. I can live with that. :D

Well the rest of the week was pretty normal. I had a good time and we are working hard and getting to know our sector better. It is a super huge sector but with time we are finding ways to work and are working to find ways. I love a good challenge and this is a good one for sure and so that is cool. The people are getting there. We are getting to know them better and having  a good time with that. We are finding quite a few people just need them to progress!!!!

I know that God lives. I know that the Book of Mormon is a powerful tool that our Heavenly Father has given to us. I know that we can learn through it. I know these things to be true.
I would like to share a chapter that you can read or well two or three this week
Alma 46-48...super powerful stuff right there.

Sorry this is short. I can't really think of anything more to say. I promise to write more next week!!

OH something fun I did today was ride bumper cars in the mall. They are for little kids but that doesn't stop us missionaries!! :D
I would send pictures but this computer isn't reading my card. Sorry for 2 weeks in a row without seeing my smiling face!!!!
LOVE YOU TONS
Hermana Hull

PS my card hasn't made it yet. Since the holidays it has been rough with mail. But I feel it will get here soon!

It is like Otavalo and Ibarra got Married and had a baby named Yaruqui!

Hey mama!!

Sounds like a great week and going to be another crazy one!!! I am excited to hear about the wedding and how everything goes!! IT is tough not being there but I love being here and so well that is super exciting!!!!

Well like the title says this place is super campo and super huge. We are opening the sector and don't know anything. But that is super great. I love it and am excited to get to know it more.

We go to what they call the casita capilla. It is literally a house that has been turned into a capilla(church)!! It is super legit but is super cold all the time. It is super fun and I love it there. Feels like home....haha

The members are a little cold but will come around,. We have to have their help a lot so we can know our sector...literally it is huge. Like probably all the the sectors in central in Ibarra put together. We know nothing but we are getting there and finding new people everyday.

Really it is great here. A lot like Otavalo. I love it and know that there are people prepared to receive this message here.

Hope you got the fotos of the baptism of Thomas. He is like my little hermanito!!

I know that this is the work of the Lord. I know he blesses us!! I know that we can be together forever. I know that the Book of Mormon is true!! I know the priesthood has been restored and can truly bring us power to bless us. I know that Joseph Smith was a prophet of God. I know that we are super blessed.

Have a great week!! Love you tons!!!!
Hermana Hull

PS I could use some extra prayers for my health...I am quite sick. We think it may be a urinary or kidney infection. Like I had when I was little. So yeah that would help a ton.

PPS Don't worry mom I have lots of dog stories as well....we will have story time ;D

Changes........probably my last ones....

Mama,

Your week sounds like all this end of school stuff is just crazy and going well. I am happy to hear that all is well with Jaden's back.... I was praying for it a lot and wanted to hear how it is, so I am super glad it is not anything to bad. And that it will heal soon. Also that Jasmine's wedding is super close is loco!!! And Happy Birthday Donna!!! Sorry it is a bit late....:D

Well as to my changes....they happened again this week. Can you believe how fast 6 weeks have gone. I literally can't believe it. I feel like I just started last change and now I am in a brand new one. It is just super crazy and so part of mission life. SO you are probably wondering where I am at right now.....welllllll drum roll please........I am in Quito. Again. Different part though. I am in a place called Yaruqui which is up in the hills of Quito and so it is a lot more like Otavalo which I am super grateful because I wanted to get out of the city- ish areas :D Also this will most likely be my last area of the mission which is insane. It is pretty much like 100% because my companion Hermana Huayta is ´´dying´´ in the next change. Going home and so I will stay and finish here. So well that is crazy huh??

Hermana Huayta is super cool. I have known here since I was born here in the mission. She was in my first zone. We have had some of the same comps like Hermana Pingree and Hermana Ukle and have been in some of the same sectors like Ibarra and Carcelen. Crazy huh?? She is 21 and is from Bolivia, Sucre. So that is super cool. First comp from Bolivia!!! That is exciting!! I am stoked to work here and get to know the people. I know the Lord puts us together as companions for a reason. I don't know why yet but I will come to find out and I also know that we are sent to certain areas for a reason and I am super excited to love the people here. It is a branch as well and Hermana Huayta told me it is a house church and so that means it is small but it is going to be super fun and I am just ready to rumble!!!!

As to the familia Bermudez......,not going to lie my heart was broken yet again. They were unable to make it happen this last week. They are super worried about the rent and put it off. It made me soooo sad. But I know that they are going to get baptized within the next few weeks and so I just need ask president and I should be able to make it there. They made me burgers and gave me a Colombia jersey before I left. I love them so much and I am so glad I had the time to be with them and to change my life by being with them!!!!!

I know that Jesus is the Christ. I know that it is only Him that knows all things we pass through like it says here in these 2 scriptures--

7 And lo, he shall suffer temptations, and pain of body,hunger, thirst, and fatigue, even more than man can suffer, except it be unto death; for behold, blood cometh from every pore, so great shall be his anguish for the wickedness and the abominations of his people. (Mosiah 3:7)

11 And he shall go forth, suffering pains and afflictions and temptations of every kind; and this that the word might be fulfilled which saith he will take upon him the pains and the sicknesses of his people.

 12 And he will take upon him death, that he may loose the bands of death which bind his people; and he will take upon him their infirmities, that his bowels may be filled with mercy, according to the flesh, that he may know according to the flesh how to succor his people according to their infirmities.

 13 Now the Spirit knoweth all things; nevertheless the Son of God suffereth according to the flesh that he might take upon him the sins of his people, that he might blot out their transgressions according to the power of his deliverance; and now behold, this is the testimony which is in me.(Alma 7:11-13)

I know that he is the one and is the one that will always be there for us no matter what we are going through. I love him and am thankful for the power and strength that he gives me every single moment because it is only through him that I can do anything!!!!

Love you all a ton!!!!!! Have a great week!!!

Hermana Hull

Well here I am again...fast week huh?

Mama,

Well just sounds like a fantastic time you have been having this week with all this end of school year stuff. Just a party like none other.
Ultimate sounds like it was a little of a heart breaker, but you know that it's okay they will come back even more next year.

I have heard nothing about the change of clothing or anything. It sounds super weird. I mean what is the definition of mosquito time. Because here there are always tons of mosquitoes. But I mean it just kind of sounds like not a mission to me. But you know if they feel that it is okay I have no problem with it because if it is official, it is because they received the revelation and that is nothing to even argue against at all..

Well this week was pretty normal. I had my final interview with President Richardson this week because he goes home in July and our next interviews won't be until august and so that was kind of sad. It is hard to think I wont finish with them because really they have changed my life so much and helped me become an even better missionary. They are truly people I look up to a ton!!!

I just want to share a few thoughts of the week:

The best way to start out the day is on your knees. No replacement of it.

Keep your head held high in every situation. You feel better.

Be obedient! Not only does it bless you, but those around you.

Even if you feel like you can't do much, you can do more than you think.

God is a God of Miracles.

Sometimes we are molded by the situation and other times by the people in the situation.

Sometimes it is all about what you can give and how much you love. Really there is nothing else.

God just expects our best and He will be proud.

Be seen as a repenter and not a sinner.

Repentance is Joy.

The best way to becomes friends is to share food.

A good laugh can change a lot of problems.

Don't take yourself to seriously. It takes the fun out of the mission.

You aren't perfect. But are working to perfection.

Christ gave it all for the one.

Prayer is powerful.

GOD LOVES EACH OF US!!!

Have a great week!! I love you tons!!!
Hermana Hull

Being stuck in the house is like the worst!

Mama,

Wow. Sounds like a good week and another one to look forward too. You are doing tons of stuff and it sounds like everything is winding down to start off summer. That is great.

Well this week was well might I say terrible. I was stuck inside for 3 days taking care of my sick companion. It stinks so bad when you get sick on the mission and so that was not fun at all. There is a lot of sickness going around right now and so well, you just have to make the most of it. And work through what you can. But there are just somethings that wipe us out down here and most of the time it has to do with the stomach.

The familia Bermudez is doing well.They should be getting married this week and then baptized on the 28th. (not so pressured) so that is going well and I am just loving it here.

I just want to share a few scriptures to finish. (I will find them in English...don't worry)

33 Preach unto them repentance, and faith on the Lord Jesus Christ; teach them to humble themselves and to be meek and lowly in heart; teach them to withstand every temptation of the devil, with their faith on the Lord Jesus Christ.
34 Teach them to never be weary of good works, but to be meek and lowly in heart; for such shall find rest to their souls  
35 O, remember, my son, and learn wisdom in thy youth; yea, learn in thy youth to keep the commandments of God.
36 Yea, and cry unto God for all thy support; yea, let all thy doings be unto the Lord, and whithersoever thou goest let it be in the Lord; yea, let all thy thoughts be directed unto the Lord; yea, let the affections of thy heart be placed upon the Lord forever
37 Counsel with the Lord in all thy doings, and he will direct thee for good; yea, when thou liest down at night lie down unto the Lord, that he may watch over you in your sleep; and when thou risest in the morning let thy heart be full of thanks unto God; and if ye do these things, ye shall be lifted up at the last day.

Alma 37:33-37

I love these scriptures because they teach all about the work and prayer and how essential it is to pray to have success in all your things you are dealing with. I know Christ lives and loves us and that he is always there to respond to our needs and wants.

Love you tons!!

Hermana Hull