We are currently in some national holiday they have here in Ecuador they call Carnaval. It`s three days of playing with water, and basically anything else you can throw. It started this Sunday in the morning, so as we went out to bring investigators to church it felt like a military operation, dodging around corners, blow up pools and changing direction wherever we saw someone with a painted face. I didn`t want one of my white shirts and my slacks to get stained! Luckily the people here don`t wake up on days like this until like 10:00 so we didn`t have too much trouble in the morning actually. It was super sketch on the way back home from church though; at church we planned out the streets we would use to avoid pools and little kids with paint. We got home without getting wet, and stayed inside all day, as our president told us to do until Wednesday. We left just to go to the internet cafe today (in our proselyting clothes). So far we haven`t gotten wet or painted at all, but right outside this cyber (the only one open around) are like 3 blow up pools and a bunch of kids, so we`re gonna sprint back home.
We started our carnaval on Saturday with a little pool in the church, as we had a baptism! Angelino decided to follow his older brother`s (our recent convert`s) footsteps. He got baptized and was super happy to do so. The next day he brought 2 deacon aged freinds to church as well for the confirmation! We`ll see if we can get the families of his 2 freinds to church this week. He`s a cool, good kid, and I`m glad he can be part of the church with his brother, which will help him stay away from the many temptations there are at his age.
I love being here as a missionary. This is the Church of Jesus Christ. I feel the hand of the Lord in this work. As we put our trust in him he guides us, protects us, and provides for us when we need help. Wish me luck. Time to go get soaked!
Elder Pollock
PS one of our investigators, an old lady, did pour a cup of water on us actually haha that was pretty funny.
Other PS Shout out to my brother who is going on a mission to Chile in June!!! He`s gonna be an awesome missionary!
Baptism of Angelino
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