The work presses forward even in the night!

To clarify...last week Jesse said they got to sleep in the temple when they were in Guayaquil...that's not exactly accurate.  They have a "temple square" which has the temple and a hotel and such and he slept at the hotel, but people always say they are sleeping at the temple when they stat at that hotel.  I was trying to figure out where you sleep when you sleep in the temple and would it be spiritual or a bit unnerving!!!  He is enjoying his time in his new Zone but is finding out that being a zone leader during transfers makes for not a lot of sleep.  His zone is half of Loja and Zamora and there is not a ward but a few branches, and there are 14 missionaries including Jesse and his companion. He told Bill he didn't think being a zone leader would be so busy, they don't even have very much time to do stuff (I am assuming stuff to him is actual missionary work!) especially when there are changes...we are constantly at the bus station (Read below!) but then he said its a great chance to serve.

Here is his letter...

so this week was pretty fun. 

we got back to loja tuesday morning at four o clock am and had a fun 9 hour bus ride. then in the night we had two new sister missionaries come to the zone at 11pm, but they needed to go to Zamora, so they stayed the night with the sisters in Loja and we dropped them of at the bus terminal at 7 in the morning. Then later we had to got to Zamora to drop of boxes of BoM and pamflets for the sisters.  I got to stay in Loja with Elder Gonzales and my comp went to Zamora. Thursday, I went to Zamora again for an  interchange so i got to spend the day in Zamora and the night there. Friday back to Loja in the morning. Then in the night we found that elder Herrera had changes. So he had to come to Loja from Zamora and then to Guayaquil. He left at about 11 at night. Saturday was finally a normal day of work. We went and contacted the few people we had found in the week and re-commited them to church.  Sunday morning at four the missionaries came back from Guayaquil so we met them at the bus terminal and then sent them to Zamora. Then we go back to the house and sleep for a bit and then off to get people for church.

This week the people to pray for are

Katy Ortiz 26

Santiago Becerra 27 they are husband and wife

Griminesa Galvez 72

santiago ramon 13

lisbeth ramon 26

these are the ones that are listening for right now.

Elder Jesse

He said the pictures of the scenery are of Zamora and on the bus ride to Zamora. I didn't get any more details than that!!!
[The City pictures are of Loja from Jesse's new apartment]

 He didn't say, but I am assuming this is Elder Sanchez, Jesse's new Companion.  He has 17 months in the mission and is from Mexico.
[This is actually Elder Herrera from Columbia who had changes]