Another Transfer!!!

sorry the letter did not get to you last week there were problems with the internet, but i will resend what i can remember from it.

Like i said that on Monday night the other companionship had changes so it was up to us to visit all of the people that they were teaching and keep teaching them. one of there investigators was at a point where he could get baptized so we called the zone leaders so they could come and do his interview and he passed as you saw by the baptizm fotos. in the week we had a lot of success and we put a lot of baptizm dates as you saw from the list that i sent to you. we also had about 10 people in the church so that was pretty great because it was a satellite stake conference to all of Ecuador and we heard from Elder Holland and Elder Scott and Elder Scott talked in spanish the entire time and Elder Holland at the beginning and in his testimony the rest was dubbed. then sunday night the zls wanted to do all of the baptism interviews because on tuesday president was planing on having an early zone leader conference because President Juan A. Uceda of the seventy was doing a lot of training in the mission this week and so president wanted to make sure all the zone leaders were ready. so on sunday they did the interview of Narcissa and monday they did the other interviews and they all passed. so that was last week, i also finished the book of mormon in spanish last week and now i am doing a speed read to see if i can finish it in two weeks.

This weeks letter:

so monday night i was on an interchange with the zone leaders and i was at their house and they get a phone call that says elder mccammon has changes and needs to be in the machala terminal at 4 o clock so at about 10:30 i got to leave the zone leaders house and come back to mine so i could pack and get going. i got to Guayaquil at about nine found my companion and we got on our nine hour bus ride to Loja. I am back in the mountains how cool is that. The only problem is that  we have two sectors one in the city and one outside the city in Saraguro and we go there two times a week, so this week i went once there stayed here one day the other day we had our training with President Uceda and saturday other meetings in the church. so we did not have too much luck on sunday with people. the other hard part about being here is because we have two sacrament meetings one in Loja at 8 and the other in Saraguro at 11 with about a two hour bus ride between the two so we have to do splits with another companionship that is here in the same ward as us but this week has been a short frustrating week. but it will start getting better soon.
In our training President Uceda talked to us how as missionaries we need to start using preach my gospel and the preach my gospel videos more, because they will help us in our teaching and we need to make sure as missionaries we are teaching the people not just lessons. he was also telling us how we as missionaries need to start working with members more and the members with the missionaries. he explained that the missionaries are here to teach not to find. Missionaries lose a lot of their mission in looking for people to teach. it is the job of the members to find people for the missionaries to teach. there is a ward in Guayaquil that is being split pretty much every year because the members find people for the missionaries. and the missionaries there have about 15 baptisms a month in that ward. About all of them endure to the end and the missionaries do not contact...ever. i thought that that was really cool. i would love to be able to see that in any ward in our mission. but so that is my week at least 15 hours in a bus this week but hey this next week should be a lot better.

love elder mccammon

This is information I gleaned from writing back and forth:

Elder Jeske (Je Ski) who was his MTC companion in Provo, is now his Zone leader, so that's pretty cool. He told me his new companion is from Bolivia but he didn't give me his name.  He likes to work hard and he said they seem to be getting along pretty good.

He said to google pictures of Loja and Saraguro, those are his new areas, very pretty and I think he'll be happier there where its cooler. He said the missionaries there before were not teaching anyone, he said sometimes life sucks...but he's going to change that! I was surprised that he got transferred again since he just barely got changed last month, so I asked and he said...i would not say too much, but that is one of the reasons i have taken out a lot of money this month because this month i have had two changes a lot of taxi and now i am supporting my companion this week because we have not gotten money yet in the month and i also bought the jersey at the beginning of the month and monopoly so that is where the money has gone, i am not good with money and the situation has not helped but may i will not take money out from the house so this next month i do not want you to put money in so i do not have the temptation. because i need to get better. i will only ask if it is an emergency. i have not got pics with my comp nor house yet but the house is huge there is a big kitchen two big living rooms to big  bedrooms and 3 normal bedrooms a laundry room and 3 bathrooms all with cold water and when we installed hot water the other day we blew a breaker and now half the electricity in the house does not work. showering in 40 degree water...great..That's a joke... it sucks. I asked if it was a lot like Cuenca there, he liked Cuenca and said it felt like home. Yes it does seem a lot like home i love the mountains and all of the beauty. i love being here in the mountains it is a lot easier to see the stars. like i said i need to start using my money better so this next month do not give me the option unless i ask please. I hope it snows here! 

Two pictures, He didn't clarify whether this was Loja or Saraguro
[Loja]

He made me laugh, his companion told him there was a place with a lot of windmills and he thought it was cool to go see, so him and Jess went there and Jesse said, "there's only 11?!" He said they are much smaller than the ones here too.