October 2016

  Well its all over. I have been home for awhile now. I am working at the mall and missing theatre. I am also getting the ability to speak Spanish a lot and I am grateful for all the friends I have now. I am dating and very happy I might even marry this young man we shall see .I cant believe how long I have been home. I will always miss and love Ecuador and hope to return someday!

 Estoy bien agradacida por la oportunidad yo tiene a irme a Ecuador y predicar el evangelio de Jesucristo! Lo Amo! Siempre voy a recorder esta tiempo de mi vida! Siempre voy a recorder Ecuador y las personas quien cambio my vida para siempre!!

Ecuador Te Quiero!!!

Home sweet home

So I am home

  I came home May 27 2016. It was the hardest thing of my life to leave my beloved Ecuador and come home. It was so hard to leave people who have changed my life! But as I have been home for a few weeks now I can definitely see the benefits of serving a mission in my life. I was given the wonderful opportunity to speak with my mission president and as we spoke I was given the opportunity to see my mission on paper. ALL my sectors, comps and responsibilities. I was senior comp a LOT of my mission and I had no idea. I always assumed I was junior comp and that  I would just be learning my whole mission to be a leader afterwards, but what I learned is that I was a leader through my service and through my submissiveness to my comps. Sure it wasn't easy and every comp came with a challenge but in the end I was successful and came home honorably!

my last post.. .dead man walking

I am going to miss this view

guayaquil 

 leaving it allll behind 

 I think its mine

me hermana cardona , risco y butler

 Me Cardona Risgo and Butler... la fin se acerca

my last few weeks

my new comp Hna Palamino in Los Esteros...I HAVE 6 WEEKS LEFT! Dev. with elder Montoya

hermana palomino and I in our bed room/ front room

                                         zona de puerto nuevo con el presidente y con Elder Montoya

April goodbyes... the death of Hna Bradley

and I had cambios to GUAYAQUIL!!!!!

Freezer problems with Hna Martinez

Freezer problems with Hna Martinez

CATAMAYO hikes for lunch and 16 months down

breakfast in bed from Hna Martinez contemplating 16 months...so close! 

view from lunch

these stairs are going to kill me

Mosiah 15:15-18

 15 Y, ¡oh cuán hermosos fueron sus pies sobre las montañas!

 16 Y más aún: ¡Cuán hermosos son sobre las montañas los pies de aquellos que aún están publicando la paz!

 17 Y además: ¡Cuán hermosos son sobre las montañas los pies de aquellos que en lo futuro publicarán la paz; sí, desde hoy en adelante y para siempre!

 18 Y he aquí, os digo que esto no es todo. Porque, ¡cuán hermosos son sobre las montañas los pies de aquel que trae buenas nuevas, que es el fundador de la paz, sí, el Señor, que ha redimido a su pueblo; sí, aquel que ha concedido la salvación a su pueblo!

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    Hermana Rachel Dugan

 Misión Ecuador Guayquil Sur

CATAMAYO

view from the edge of catamayo. we literally walked out of town ahhaa

probably my favorite hike right here. I kept making my comps hike...even when the bus was available.

those clouds and mountains...

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    Hermana Rachel Dugan

 Misión Ecuador Guayquil Sur