Quito, Ecuador Temple

Quito, Ecuador Temple
Here is where we will be working until Feb. 2023

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Dear Readers,

We hope as you read this blog of our mission to the Quito, Ecuador temple you will feel the joy and happiness we are experiencing by being in the service of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. We hope you can experience some of what we feel. Christine and I met in Quito, Ecuador 51 years ago while serving as missionaries. We are going home.


John and Christine

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Monday, April 11, 2016

April 4th through April 10th



April 4th through April 10th: Monday was just the usual stuff, shopping and family history.  Tuesday we both went and did initiatory in the morning and then after lunch we went and found an art store and bought some paints.  Acrylics for me and water color paints for mom.  I hope I can find some time to paint.  Wednesday we got up early and went to the airport and picked up a new couple, Leonard and Marilyn May from Rockland, Idaho.   They are transfers from the Cordaba, Argentina temple and will be a great addition to our small band of missionaries.  Elder Gary and Sister Reva Allred have finished their FOURTH mission and they will be leaving this week.  They have been such faithful missionaries and Sister Allred came to serve after having breast cancer.  We are so inspired by all our missionaries.  We will stay at 4 missionary couples, at least until the end of the year.  We should be OK until then, but we will need replacements come December, so start thinking about coming down and helping out next year. We hurried back from the airport and did our morning shift.  We then took the May’s shopping.  Thursday we went to the “velatorio” or the wake for the father of Maggie, one of the secretaries in the office.    It is the custom to pay your respects and visit for about an hour, so the family is there all day long.  Maggie is just a sweetheart and we love her.  Her father was older and had had some operations and developed an infection and passed away on Wednesday.  Her brother from the states was there and his name is Andres Ramos.  He was the DTA in Peru when we were in Bolivia and remembers President Crayk and the problems we had getting garments into Bolivia.  He hopes President Crayk has forgiven him for all the problems we had.  It is such a small world in the church. 

Mom with Maggie at the velatorio.

We then did our afternoon shift.  Friday we took our missionaries, the Hurst’s, Prices’, May’s, and Dibb’s to the Relief Map of Guatemala.  Mom and I were the only one’s who had been there before.  It is a good place to visit to get an idea of where things are in relationship to everything else. 

L to R  Mom, Sister May, Sister Price, Elder May, Elder Dibb, Sister Dibb, Sister Hurst, Elder Hurst and Elder Price.  These are the 4 couples we will serve with until the May's leave in December.
I'm on top of a tower you can climb and look down on the map.
All of us on top of one of the towers.
Now I'm on the ground looking up at those still on the tower.

Mom then went to a luncheon and lesson for the North American senior sisters.  We dropped her and Sister May off and then I took everyone back to the temple.  I made myself a hamburger and headed back out into the traffic to pick up Chris and Sister May.  It took about an hour to drive there and back.  We then went and rented a CPAP machine.  My sleep study said I have severe apnea. 

My new best friend.  (Not)

Saturday we had the early shift.  The temple was extremely busy.  We had to hand out tickets for the sessions.  People would come in and want to do a session and we would say the next session is in an hour and we would give them a ticket for that session.  It was the busiest day we have experienced so far.  We ended up with 27 people receiving their own endowment.  It kept Chris and me on our toes all morning long.  Mom had forgotten that we had the early shift and had stayed up till midnight reading.  When the alarm went off at 3:00am she realized she had messed up.  Needless to say we took naps in the afternoon.  Sunday we went to church in our ward.  It was nice to be in our home ward and feel the Spirit and hear some great testimonies. Then we came home and had dinner.  We both worked on talks and then we went to the closing session of the Relief Society Conference in the Molino stake.  We both spoke and it was a nice meeting. 

Mom with 3 of the women from the RS Conference.

We got home about 7:00pm, made some popcorn and called the kids.  Great week and we are still basking in the power of General Conference from last weekend. 

The flowers are out at the temple.

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