Enjoying Quito
Although our mission assignment will be having us move 7 hours east, for a few weeks we get to enjoy Quito. The weather is in the 60s nearly everyday. And because the mission office is in Tenis, it is an upscale, safe community. Two zone conferences happened right as soon as we arrived. This is Elder Yokum. When I asked where he was from he started to describe where Temecula was. Well, he's in my parents' ward, or was, until a few years ago. My mom reports they had his older brother as a Sunbeam years ago. Since we had served in Guayaquil, we knew to look for some great Ecuadorian food and here it is. Delicious roasted pork, corn, plantains, potatoes, and beef. So much going on in the same plate. We went out to lunch with Elders Steiner and Horn to a local lunch spot close to the office. There were 10 of us in this tiny place. The drink is called oatmeal, but it was delicious. Soup, chicken and rice, all for $2.75. Elder S. Mark Palmer came to speak to both the Quito Mission...