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hey every one!!!!

 thanks for the letters and i hope your having fun up there at mammoth pools or where ever you all are. This week has been good we had another meeting with president Montalti. He is really trying to bump up all the numbers in the mission right now. Everything is going well with my little companion elder Mayorga. He always talks about Rilee and always looks at her picture on my wall.....haha but i tell him that he is too short. He is going home in 2 weeks. So he will probably look her up on FACEBOOK. He actually speaks pretty good English. its just that he is only 4 feet tall.
we will be having two baptisms this Saturday. a man named Lider Tumbaco and Ricaurdo Garcia are getting baptized. I'm excited!!
You guys make me miss mammoth pools so much! I want to go so bad!! hey whats with the new hair style that Cole has? and Braiden has a mullet? hahaha that's cool. I will send you guys some pictures of this week. I got to eat McDonalds by the way! i ate a big mac! it was the greatest thing ive tasted in a while.!! I'm living with 3 missionaries right now and they are all very cool  ill send you a picture of all of us. Elder Tait the white one is going home in a couple weeks also.

This week i read and studied the conference talk that elder Richard G Scott gave in the last conference and i was very blown away at the things he said. I loved his talk titled " How to receive personal inspiration and revelation" something like that.....But he says some very interesting things and how we can all receive revelation and what we need to do to receive it. I also read a part of Joseph Smiths book the teachings of Joseph Smith ....there is a part that says that we all need to receive revelation in our lives or it will be impossible to enter into the kingdom of god. i want you all to read the talk and strive to live in a way so that you can all receive revelation for your families and lives.



well i love you all and i hope you all have a blast this time you have together as a family!!

love
elder Jase Warner

feliz dia de indepencia

Today is the 4th of July and not one person knows about it here!!!! its weird!!!

and the same was my birthday yesterday!!! no one knew and I didn't even remember... just a couple of missionaries wished me happy b day and we ate cookies ha ha thanks for the chocolate chip cookie mix!!! but we could only make four at a time cuz we don't have an oven.......we just have a toaster oven haha !

But today was awesome i got to go to the temple for the first time since my first day of the mission. president always says that our work here is for the living and not for the dead. haha when were off the mission we can go to the temple.but after the mission I will have the opportunity to go to the new temple in Gilbert every week!!! 

And today i took my first real nap of the mission. ! 1 hour long!!!!! it was great ! I'm counting it as my birthday present! 

I now have a companion and i am living with 4 missionaries and one is from  Dominican Republic and is 6"4 he is a beast!!! and my companion is barely 4 feet tall hahahahahahah its hilarious! 

i hope everyone is having a good 4t of July and celebrating the freedom that you have.

we live in a good country!! sometimes we don't realize the blessings we are receiving and have on a day to day basis!!! I hope you are all happy and receiving blessings from our heavenly father. If you live right you will be blessed.  that's one of the simplest things in the scriptures and still at times we forget . 

I challenge you all to kneel down tonight and talk to your Heavenly Father, tell his what you are thankful for, tell him what you need to do better and ask for forgiveness, and after live in a way to receive blessings that you need.

i promise you that if you ask you will receive, if you are living right.

i love you all and miss you

elder Jase Warner

Hey

Hey everyone!

This week was tough. I don't have a companion right now.....I live with two other missionaries but I am in my own ward and have my own area. I have been working with a member of the church who is preparing to serve a mission ...he is 18 his name is Andy. But he doesn't really help me teach. He just is my companion during the day. 

But this week I did get my birthday package!!! Thank you to everyone who was a part of that!!!!

This week our fridge door broke off hahaa and we had to rig it to work.....well kinda work....hhaha 

The mission is full of adventures ! Some of them I have to just wait to tell you all when I get back,,,,,,,,,,,Like one that happened this Sunday.......its a secret shhhhhhh.........hahaha all I can say is that there are some crazy people here in Guayaquil but luckily I am a missionary and a representative of Christ and I know that I am always protected.

I hope you all know that I miss and love all of you and that I am out of time to write..........

Sorry that this letter is short

Love Jase

Two Areas

This week has been a very interesting and challenging week.

Last Monday I arrived to my new area and me and my companion were living with two other missionaries one of them is Elder Hicken from Utah who also arrived the same Monday as me in the new area. Well about three days later President Montalti took my companion and Elder Hickens companion out of the area and now we are here just us two , working in two different areas together at the same time.

We don't know any of the members and the missionaries before us didn't have any investigators at all so we are just walking around with our maps looking for people to teach and we are having some success. But its a little hard.

This Sunday we went to 2 different wards my ward and my companions ward. I have a new Bishop who got called the Sunday before, and he is only 28 years old.. But he is very cool. Anyways in my companions ward we both gave talks on the importance of missionary work which went well.

So I am temporarily with Elder Hicken from Utah he's cool. He was in Cuenca when I was there. Right now we are working very hard to try and have success in both areas. Its a lot of work but I have 3 baptism dates and he has 1 right now so we are doing pretty well. But its hard to find good people who have decent values here and who are married to there husband. Most people here just live with there husband with out ever getting married.Its a challenge.

I think this place is the only place Ive been to that's hotter or at least feels hotter than Arizona. but that's cuz its super super humid all the time. I sweat a lot if you could imagine.

Oh today we were studying in the house (3rd floor) and there was an earth quake for about 10 seconds. But it was little. And after there were little after shocks for like an hour every 5 minutes or so. I think there might have been a bigger earthquake in another part of south America and we were just feeling that ....idk...

Life good the mission is great!!!

Learning and working hard!!

There is no greater joy than the joy you get from doing the work of the Lord.

Inviting others to come unto Christ!! I invite you guys to invite others!   Oh and mom for that scripture that you wanted or that grandma wanted ....ALMA 29:9 I like that one a lot

I love you all

Love Elder Warner

Trainer

This week I went to Guayaquil, its a 4 hour bus ride and half of the buss ride is freezing cold and the other half you are sweating a lot!!! But the bus is nice and I got to sleep a little!

But when we got to Guayaquil we waited a couple hours for our companions to arrive and finally they did . All of them were Latins, and I got my first SON elder Zavaleta from Peru. He is 22 years old and very cool. Ready to work. Doesn't complain and doesn't sleep in! So far so good. We had a meeting with president Montalti and a an interview, I love talking to the pres.. We didn't have time to go to the temple but that night I had to sleep on the floor of a another missionaries house with my shirt as a pillow . We woke me up and went back to Cuenca!

We got back on Wednesday and in 3 days we placed 6 new baptism dates and right now we have 11 investigators with baptism dates for the month of may!!! The most I've ever had in the mission. We need all of your help for this Saturday. We have a family that will be baptized but the mom is having a little bit of some doubts. Please pray for her....Her name is Blanca Clavijo. and she has 3 kids....Andrea, Erika, and Jesenia....I really hope and pray that they will be baptized this Saturday. Also this Saturday we have another baptism with Daniel Vinasco he finally turns 18 so we can now baptize him! I'm really excited for the success we are having. I was really worried to train but everything is going very well. I have been praying a lot lately!!

Last night we got to eat dinner!!!!!! with a member for the first time in my mission I didn't eat egg or top ramen for dinner...but we had Ceviche from Peru. Its fish soup, raw fish soup, with onion and lemon..... it is the best !!! I love Ceviche!!! But this week has been very happy and wonderful!

The Lord is helping me and I hope that all of you can put your confidence and trust in the Lord in all your problems. The power of prayer is real! 

I love you all Elder Jase Warner

Training

This week was a very good week! We have 6 baptism dates for the month of may. And we will have one baptism next week her name is Andrea Viavicencio. She is very excited to be baptized and she has gone to church a number of times. I am excited for the baptisms that are coming!

I thought this week I was going to get changed to Guayaquil, because I have been here in cuenca for a while now. But that's not the case. Instead my companion Elder Chicaiza left to the area next door to mine, and I will be training a brand new missionary. I don't know yet who it is or where he is from gringo or Latino? But I will go pick him up from the airport tomorrow in Guayaquil. We will get to go to the temple together and have a meeting with the president of the mission. So I am excited for this new opportunity, and I pray that I will be able to teach this new missionary how to be successful.

This week we had our stake conference, but it was via satellite from salt lake city! It was awesome it was only for Ecuador, and wow it was so good. Elder Christoferson and Richard G Scott spoke also the 70 of our area Elder Nash spoke. They all speak Spanish too, which I didn't know. Elder Scott was a mission president in Argentina in the 60´s and Elder Christoferson was one of the missionaries in Argentina when Elder Scott was president. I thought that was interesting and cool. They talked about the importance of treating your wife good, and that they are our eternal partners. That's exactly what the people here needed also. They tend to have problems with that here, the wives here aren't treated the way they should be. They are more like servants than spouses. But a lot of men in the stake were taught and are now excited to change.
we had 4 investigators in church this Sunday, and I went to church in New Jersey this week. Her name is Cathy, but she is visiting family over there and she will be baptized the 19th of may! She is awesome!

This week I had a very touching experience! I was sitting in conference looking around and noticed that 3 families, that I baptized while I was in a different area before, were sitting in conference in there church clothes!!! Wow I have never been so happy. The joy that I felt was unbelievable. One family in particular was a family in where the dad and mom were going to get divorced because the dad was beating and cheating of his wife. they have 2 boys that also got baptize and they are now a happy family and are the first ones in church every week. There is also another family of a mom and daughter who were there, and they sat right in front of me, the wife before her baptism was also with a man who was cheating on her and she was very unhappy. Now she is a very happy person, and he daughter goes to seminary every morning at 530. I was very happy to see my converts active in the church preparing to enter into the temple and be sealed to their families for time and all eternity.

I am grateful to be a part of the lords work. I love it! and I know that this work is of God.

I love all of you and pray for you

Elder Warner

Hey Everybody

This week has been a week of very hard work for me and my comp. we get a long very well and are both excited to work all the time. We had 8 baptism dates for this month lined up and not one of them looks like its going to happen this month.

They will happen but in a little time. Daniel Vinasco who was supposed to have his baptism this week fell through, not because of him but because of his family. Daniel turns 18 years old in one month but he is living with his aunt and uncle who are pastors of the salvation army church.....The night before his baptism they came storming into the church upset. I guess Daniel never told them about his decision of getting baptized...But we tallied to Daniels mom on the phone that lives in Colombia and she said it was fine...Well We had a 2 hour talk with his aunt and uncle about everything and we had no choice but to delay the baptism. But Daniel has been working with a member and he will be going to church still, and be baptized in one month when he turns 18 years old.

it is raining so hard right now!!! wow! all the streets are flooded!

Anyways a lot of hardships this week but we are pressing forward in the work of the lord. I have learned to keep my head up high and trust in the lord with all my heart and i know it will all work out. The rest of our baptisms will happen in the first weeks of may because the last week of march we have a stake conference so we cant baptized that week. Well we can baptized but not confirmed.....And baptism doesn't mean anything with out the holy ghost.

so this week we explored a lot! Our area is huge!!! i mean huge! you could ride on a bus for hours and not find the end...but this week we decided to contact this new area and we had to rock climb a little to get there haha but it went really well besides all the dogs that almost ate us... But we found a lot of good people to teach!

i am thankful to be here in Ecuador serving the lord,. Ive never received a greater happiness for working. Ive learned in the mission that money cant buy you happiness... its the lord that gives it to you when you keep the commandments and put the kingdom of god first in your life.

i love you all and i pray for you daily

strive everyday to put the lord first in your lives.

elder

Jase Allen Warner