Happy Thanksgiving

Hey everyone!

Hows it going in the USA? Man I miss that country. Ecuador is way cool though I am loving it here! Love my companion Elder Badger ( from Provo Utah) future pro football player. Love the people, the mission is awesome! This next week we should have 2 baptisms if we get this girl married this week, but the other baptism is for sure happening this week her name is Julexi. Shes black. My first blacktism. She was supposed to be baptized this past week but she had some issues with coffee so this week is the week. The other day she couldn't go to church because she was in the hospital the night before.......she fell out of a mango tree. I felt bad, she got a concussion and at first we thought she was (chuchaqui) hung over. But just falling out of trees. She is all better now, so it should be a great day next Saturday. Spanish is still a struggle but learning everyday! And I love the gospel! Go spread the gospel! Don't be selfish! The gospel needs to be heard by all of Gods children!

I love you all hope all is well.

God speed

Elder Warner

Lazy Times in Ecuador

Hey everyone!!

This Tuesday I got a new companion Elder Badger. He is way cool, he has a little over a year in the mission. Elder Badger has a football scholarship to Notre Dame. But anyways Tuesday we worked really hard and walked so much! But elder badger got a ingrown toe nail and we had to go to the clinic in another city and he got it removed with a knife. It was nasty. But he got orders to rest for 3 days so we sat inside the house the past three days and it felt like forever!! Its crazy when your not working you feel so lazy!!

But we did get to go to church on Sunday and we had an investigator there named Julexi. She is getting baptized this next week!! She is awesome! Its crazy how people just completely can change their life because they feel the love of the savior and the atonement work in their lives.!

On Wednesday we got to go to Guayaquil to have a training session with President Montalti, it was really cool because i got to see all the elders that came with me from Peru.

So this week we get to get back to work and we are going to work so hard!! its weird I just always have the desire to work, so this past week kinda blew. But I love the people here in anta Rosa Ecuador and i love my new companion! we will be very successful together.

I miss you all and pray for you!

Elder Jase Warner

11/11/11 on Bus 11

¡¡Hola norte americanos!!

This week was full of excitement actually! we had a meeting kinda like a zone conference type thing in a city called Machala. It was the day of 11/11/11 and we got a picture in a bus that was bus route 11. we thought that was exciting ha ha. This week i also had two interchanges 1 with a latino Elder Herrara and one with elder Egan! me and Elder Egan are both new missionaries who are bad at Spanish ha ha. So it was very interesting but at the same time we were full of energy and we ended up being very successful! I also successfully hitch hiked for free! And the guy that picked us up was Jehovah's witness... there are so many ( testigos de jehovah) here in Ecuador! They are everywhere and I think it has to do with Spanish translations of the Bible, it says Jehovah in it all over. and its very confusing and it makes it look like Jehovah is heavenly father. but anyways we got two people to our district conference this week Julexi was one and Karina was the other.
We will not be having baptisms this week because Nahin Sanches didn't got to church but next week we will have some the 26th Julexi for sure and Karina if she gets married on the 18th as planned. so please pray for these two people and a man named Gilbert who we now have a date for the first week in December. he is solid! he will be a very good member of the church. we need your prayers! they need your prayers! Yesterday was the last day of my first change! and the other day was mine and elder Egan's 100th day out. so we got pizza together n our interchange. he was my first companion in the Provo mtc.
I love it here in Santa Rosa Ecuador! we don't know yet what the changes are but it is very likely I could have a new companion tomorrow. Because elder Hancock has 5 weeks here in this sector. but who knows really. we will find out tonight.
I hope everything is going well at home en "los estados unidos"
I hope everyone is sharing the gospel as much as possible and being good examples to the people you are around! The lord is building his kingdom and i am so glad we get to all be a part of it!!

le quierro

love Elder Jase Warner

Banana Land

How is everyone doing?

everything is going great down here in the banana land Ecuador. For real my life is surrounded by bananas if its not what your eating its in site for sure. and we are just surrounded by bananeros- banana farms. my city is known as the banana capitol of the world.

So this week was very good, no baptisms but we got 4 investigators to church and we have a couple of baptisms lined up. but we will see if i get changed next week to a new area or not. I cant believe I've been in Ecuador for a change no ( 6weeks). Time is already flying! there is a lot of work to be done! Right now i am actually in another city called pasaje for a day because my companion elder Hancock, who is a district leader is in Guayaquil for a meeting for a day. So our p day actually got cut in half almost. I am slowly realizing that there is no rest here on the mission not even on pday. Work work work! i am glad because there is just too many people without the gospel in their lives to not work every second of every day.
Next week is our district ( stake) conference so we cant baptize that week, but we have a baptism the 19th. Nahin Sanchez, he is 19 years old and knows the church is true, he just has some problems some times with the word of wisdom. Please pray for him to overcome his trial with this. I have learned that the power of prayer is so real.

the people here are awesome, my companion is awesome i love the mission. I hope all is well!
please pray for me and elder Hancock.

i love you all and i thank you for all your support!

go out and share the gospel!

love
Elder Jase Warner

The Iguana and the Boon Docks!

Hello everyone!

This week has been full of learning experiences for me and Elder Hancock! I have learned that the Lord gives us challenges and he also blesses us on a daily bases. Everyday this week has been a roller coaster of events and investigators. The start of the week was super slow! And it seemed like nothing was going good at all, but we held our heads high and kept pressing forward. By the time Friday rolled around we had only taught a handful of lessons and didn't place any baptismal dates. Our numbers were horrible and we were walking and walking everywhere and just not teaching lessons.

But Friday rolled around and everything was different. One thing is that we prayed super long and hard the night before for each one of our investigators. But Friday we had this idea to go try an area in our sector that is about 45 minutes away from the rest of our sector (on a bus) to teach. We were the first missionaries hear possibly I'm not exactly sure but I do know one thing....I think it was every ones first time there seeing a gringo.

We taught two lessons there that went very well! And it was cool being just way out in a new area. But that Friday we got 7 new investigators! And placed two baptism dates! The following day we placed another baptism date! So at this point we were really pumped! But Sunday rolled around and we were hoping to get 5 people to church. Lets just say that we got 0 to church.....but the highlight of that Sunday was seeing our convert Aaron get to church early and prepare the sacrament ! It was awesome! The day before he also went to the temple to do baptisms for the dead! And the temple is 3 hours away. I believe life in general is the same way, the Lord gives us all trials, but we need to keep our heads high and look to the lord for help and he will give us tender mercies along the way. Happiness/success is just around the corner. And one thing Elder Hancock taught me is that our success is up to the lord to determine not us. Because in the moment we don't know what the Lord has planned for these people we are teaching, we just know that we need to follow the spirit and do our best. Everyone has their agency and we need to have patience with them. The other day on Thursday we had an interchange and I lead my sector, everything went pretty smooth and good. This week i saw like 10 iguanas in our sector, so I was excited! They are pretty cool! I am loving it here, even though I am sweating all the time and getting bit by bugs. I love it!!!!

Oh this week we watched some videos from Preach My Gospel in companion study and I felt the impression to tell you guys how important missionary work at home is!! The members play a huge role in missionary work! We try to make 50 contacts a week, and we teach about 17 lessons a week. But think of how effective and how fast the church would grow and retain members if everyone had a part in the work! Just talking to one person a week and giving the missionaries their name, think of how great that would be! I think at home we get scared to share the gospel with our non member friends. We need to overcome that fear, people need to hear it! On that note I hope you all have a wonderful week!
And I love you all!!Elder Jase Warner

Our Apartment, and the guitar I bought!

Jase didn't tell us, but I'm thinking maybe the bus stop??????

47 Bananas!

¿Que mas?

This week was pretty good here in Santa Rosa Ecuador. We were blessed with another baptism on Saturday, Aaron Carrion. It was actually a very close call. On Friday night we went to go teach Aaron, and his parents told us he was having some doubts. His parents are non members by the way. But we listened and talked to Aaron for about two hours that night trying to figure out what his doubts were. At first he was telling us he wasn't sure it was true, but that was a lie ( people lie here 24/7) its just their culture. So we kept listening with the spirit, and then he said the reason was because of the word of wisdom, which was also a lie. He finally came out an told us it was because his friends at school made fun of his decision to be baptized. But we reminded him of his strong testimony of El Libro De Mormon, and the spirit was there pretty strong. After that he was very excited to be baptized the next day and he brought his whole non member family with him to the baptism! And the next day at church he was in sacrament meeting with his whole family and received the holy ghost. His dad knows a lot about the gospel and I am pretty sure he believes the church is true, he is just stubborn.

We don't have any baptisms for this week, but we have a couple people we are working with. One guy Josias went to church yesterday with us and went to Sunday school and he is a very intelligent guy, but his dad is a pastor at another church. But we are going to rely on the spirit and the book of Mormon to testify to him. The book of Mormon works miracle everyday for us.

Me and elder Hancock are doing great, were working hard!! Then on Saturday we walked probably 20 miles.....and not one lesson was taught that day it seemed like we walked everywhere and Saturday we just walked and walked ! But it takes hard work to get baptisms, and that's what we are here to do!

Some of the food here is hard for me to eat still, the hardest is the fish with the had and tail still on it, and we have been eating fish a lot lately. I feel so bad every time we eat lunch in the members homes which is everyday almost. They barely have money for their own food it seems like and they give up what they do have to us missionary´s. Its a lot of food too! I think they believe they need to give us a ton of food but they really don't need to. There are usually two bananas in each meal and more rice than I can fit in my stomach. Today me and elder Hancock bought 47 bananas for the week. That's how many we eat.....just for breakfast usually!! Its insane!

Our house is actually really nice we have 3 rooms and a living room kitchen and two bathrooms..Its big! And we have a gym now:) We finished building our weight bench the other day and we bench press our gas tank..and we have a pull up bar.

Today I found Brant Wadsworth's letter he wrote me in Spanish at the farewell and I could read it all! so I was happy about that.

Life is good here I'm happy, tired, and love the gospel!

Love Elder

Pix from the First Area!

We got these last week, but I couldn't open them on my computer. Finally got them!