10 minutos mas entonces debo ser rápida.‏

I always decide to put random titles when I have no idea what else to say. 

So the pope came last week. That was interesting. We all thought it was going to be hard to visit people, but it was actually pretty normal for us. Just one person refused to turn of the tv of the popes misa...I dont know what misa is english...hahaha So those are the interesting going ons of Ecuador.

All is well in Zion and I was thinking of doing something a little bit different this week because I am bored with the usual stuff.

So once upon a time there was this girl who had had a good life. She was happy, but didn´t know what to do with herself. She had dreams of a great future and lots of different things. She wanted to be so much, but never thought she would become the person she was. She was actually very surprised. Until one day she felt so lost that she wanted to know what she should do. So she fasted, prayed, and asked, and like a little calm feeling of happiness knew what she should do with her future. Even though it was only one answer to all of the questions she had she knew where she needed to go. So she recieved her call and she felt a connection to something so much deeper she had never known before. She went and worked and suffered and learned, and got up again. The great thing is that she is happy now, she has found her destiny and hopes to continue to find it. I am so grateful that she prayed that one day and that her father and mother helped her to get out and go as far as she could to reach the limits of her own abilities. The great thing is that she could only do it thanks to her Lord and Savior.

I am so grateful that God answers our prayers. I cannot wait to continue on forward and figure out the finish of that story. I hope you all have a great week, and remember to just keep moving forward!

Con mucho amor de Armenia,

Hermana Dunkley

ps i eat bananas now

Como sobrellevamos nuestras cargas‏

How to bare your burdens with ease. Well I think it is better as a question because I am still trying to figure that out. There are times where we just struggle to know how to continue onward, but the best thing to do is trust in God. I read a story in an Ensign once, or Liahona, I am not sure what they call it anymore, but I read a story about a man who felt like he received his trials and problems so much that he was like in a boat in the middle of a stormy ocean. That sometimes we aren´t sure how to get to safe land, but God will always put it into view and help us to get back up even when we fall. I feel like he has done that for me. He has shown me how to stay sailing and he has lightened my burdens everyday of my life. I thought the hard part was over so long ago, but we must go through trials to be able to learn.whoops i wasn't finished...haha. 

This may sound depressing, but I am not depressed. haha. I am truly happy and thankful for the gifts God has given me. I feel so much more stronger now than I ever had before in my life. I hope for a better tomorrow so that I can continue to grow and learn. 

I like what Elder Cicon said this week. Just remember that God does care. He worries about us and loves us so much.

Thank you all for your support and prayers, I can feel the strength from them.

Con mucho amor de Ecuador,

Hermana Dunkley

Para: todos....i hate making titles‏

Well I am good. Here is something interesting from my week. Yesterday we ate super awesome lamb tacos from this family that is mexican and peruvian. Can I just say if any of you have that opportunity, lamb is amazing. Before that we walked a lot and had some reallyfunny contacts with people who said that they were going crazy, then we had some funny stuff happened with the elders. They are determined to hear me say a bad word, because the other time we played sports one might of fallen out, so now everyone is like going on bets of who can get it out of me. Sorry if I crushed your dreams I am not perfect, and sometimes I accidently say bad words. I am working on it. Oh and today I got sunburned, but I am getting tan, so when I get home I don´t glow in the dark.

Now I just want to share with all of you an awesome thing from my journal this week. I have truly seen the blessings in my life. Before my mission, I only ever thought of myself and now I focus in others. Before my mission I only ever read the book of mormon or prayed to do it as kind of a homework assignement. Now I have the desire to do it and the need to do it. The book of mormon has changed my life. I am truly grateful because only the mission has been able to do that to me. thanks to these things i can now see all tha it has done to change my life. I hope you all look for those ways as well, and just start thinking more of what is important to us now and not just in our times that we need God the most. 

So here are some pretty awesome pictures of the book that has changed my life and it was just another fun thing we did last week.

Con mucho amor de Ecuador,

Hermana Dunkley

Our lives with Christs‏

Well it was just a great week. I love being able to contemplate life and also just have fun working hard in the work of the Lord. welcome to the family Beau Charles!!! Happy fathers day Parker, Dad, and Grandpa!!

This week was great and we did a special fast to feel the work of the atonement in our lives and I started thinking a lot of the feelings of Christ. As I was comparing my experiences to His, I started to see that as he served his own mission and the end neared he didn`t want to finish either. I imagine him thinking about how he had fallen in love with the people he served, how he had gotten to know another world that was so beautiful to him, and how he must have felt to have known that he had to finish his mission so quickly. I was imagining what it must have felt for him to see that his own investigators and beloved brothers and sisters rejected his message, and then crucified Him after he sacrifcied so much for them in his entire mission. With his mission as a servant of God he knew the end was coming as so many of us do, but he knew the end was coming to his mission and his life. Then I realized even though this must have been so hard for him, he was also able to feel so much happiness. He loved what he did, he sacrificed everything so willingly for us, and even though his life came to an end, he continued his mission as a ressurected Christ. 

I think of that a lot. Even though we sometimes have our times that will come to an end as representatives of Christ, like that of Elder Munson, we must always continue on even after our missions are over. This time does not end so easily for us, but as Christ we will be able to continue working even after it all.  When we all just take a moment to remember his when we are down, lonely, struggling or whatever. We will see that we go through these things just to understand him better. I am so grateful for the hard part because through the hard part I understand Christ`s atonement better. I am so grateful for this chance I have to be a missionary and continue on forward. I hope I can continue to enjoy these next 4 months and work harder than I ever had before.

May you all have a great day, and Happy fathers day to everyone yesterday.

I love you all.

Con Mucho amor de Armenia,

Hermana Dunkley

The rights we have‏

Hey everyone! I AM AN AUNT!!! SOY TÍA!!!!

I am so happy. Well I don´t know what my nephew is called yet. So baby Dunks is here!!! haha.

So something I just wanted to tell you all is that we had changes. I am sad that Hermana Costa isn´t here, but now I will be able to be with Hermana Pace and she is awesome so that is fine. 

Well I have been thinking a lot about our agency lately and I wanted to share something with you all. When I was younger I got mad at God for a little while because he didn´t make everything in my  life work how I wanted it too. I only wanted to know why he had let others fall into long paths and i got mad at Him because my life wasn´t perfect like I had always wanted it to be. Then I thought recently about these thoughts and this was a major change in my conversion. I only could change because I was able to let go of those feelings and accept that God has given us the opportunity to choose what path we go down and it is what we do with that gift that can really bring us joy. My life has changed a lot since those days. I am so grateful for our right to choose even though sometimes I feel sad that others choose other paths,I must be grateful for agency because without it we would only be living a life without happiness. I am so grateful for these things he has given me and I hope you all understand that He will give us what we deserve, but if we give him our agency He will give us even more than we can imagine. I love you all and I am grateful to my Father for the right I have to choose.

Con mucho amor de Armenia,

Hermana Dunkley

El Espíritu Santo‏

well no baby dunks yet. so I am sad. but we had a baptism. So I am happy.

This 6 Junio 2015 we baptized Jennifer and Britney Bravo. They are so amazing and cute girls. They want to do everything they can to keep moving forward. I am happy!  well now we just have to keep finding people so we can continue with these great things that are going on here.

Now something spirtiual...um...you would think that I would have something super fast considering that my life is centered around the Spirit...

ok yeah. well the little girl we baptized this saturday shared something so amazing in her testimony. She said as she was being baptized that she felt like a warm feeling in her heart like it was the only thing that was dry as she was sumerged in the water. It was so sweet because that little explanation is so true for all of us as we feel the spirit. sometimes when it is raining outside and we have to go and work anyway, I feel like the only thing dry in my is the Spirit as well.  It can be felt so strongly and help us out when we feel like there isn´t any other hope. I am so grateful for the testimony of children because they can truly see things a whole lot simpler and like God wants us to see and do things.

I am so grateful to have the privilige to have known them and shared with them. Thank you all for all that you do.

Con mucho amor del cyber que está en el triangulo en San Rafael,

Hermana Dunkley

Feliz Día de Niño‏

Well happy kid day. As a kid today I celebrated going down lots of slides, through opticle courses and now I am going to make some bomb food!

I hope all of you remember what the scriptures say.

Matthew 18:3-4

 3 And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.

 4 Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven.

So I hope you all remeber that you need to become as little children. Especially today in the Day of the Child. haha

Well I just kind of felt that I needed to say thank you today. It isn´t thanksgiving, but that doesn´t matter. Sometimes I think that we forget all the times that we need to express our gratitude. I am so very grateful to God that I can be out here. He permitted me to come here and watch over his children so I must do all that I can to help them out. I also think that he has permitted everyone of us with responsabilities to take care of his spirit children. Even when our brothers and sisters bother us sometimes we must remember that they are our responsability to take care of, given to us by God.  I have found that I am very grateful for the love and care my family has given me. I feel there love each and every day and all the love from my friends at home as well. 

I wanted to remember one happy thought as a child in this great day. I thought of church and all the times I felt the love from my own family and from my extended family in my ward. I can truly say that thanks to all of them I have been changed to be a better person. I hope to be able to do the same for those here so that they can feel the love from me.

I am so grateful to all of you and hope that you all too can be grateful for the opportunities you all have had as children, because we are all children even now, and remeber that it is thanks to God that we were brought here to this earth.

les amo muchísimo

Con mucho de puente 8,

Hermana Dunkley