Elder Myler's email from 6/15/14:
To Mom:
Hello mom, Sorry for missing the last email but i was a little busy
(check the other email i sent this week) it has been a crazy week and i
almost missed writing this week as well. So here is a little more detail
about my transfer. So i was told i was being transfered last sunday at
about 10:30 so i had to pack up all my things and i went to a big bus
terminal where the mission does the transfers. I was told i was being
transfered to Portoviejo. I went a bought the ticket to go by bus to
Portoviejo and was on a bus withinin the hour. the bus trip was about 4
hours long and pretty boring, but the view of Ecuador was nice. When my
temporary companion and i arrived in Portoviejo we had no was to talk
with the Zone leaders so my companion went looking for a phone booth
while i gaurded our luggage. We called the zone leaders and waited for
about 30 minuits untill they showed up. they told me we would be waiting
in the bus terminal for my companion and we waited for about an hour
and a half. The ZL decided to stop waiting and just go with me to my new
house, when we got there the place was very dirty and i spent the last
part of the day cleaning and unpacking. And with monday being the only
day we can write i had to go without writing for the week. I am sorry i
did not write but please dont worry about me in the future, I promise
you if anything happens to me the mission will be sure to write you!
there will be times when i will simply not have time but i will do all i
can to write every week even if it is just a tiny email saying i am ok.
But mom please dont stress over me and try not to worry so much about
me. I am proud you were able to put your trust in the lord this week and
i know you can do this every week while i am away,
I will be sure to keep you updated on everytihng as things progress here
Con Amor Elder Myler
Hello mom it is nice to hear from you, these past two weeks have been
fairly crazy but rewarding. So i am in an apartment and it is just Elder
Garcia and i. we live in front of El universidad técnico de manabi. It
is one of the biggest universities in the providence. So there are a lot
of students and temporary housing. Portoviejo is a lot like Tucon in my
opinion. My companion Elder Garcia is from Quito the capital of
Ecuador, he was suppose to be in our mission temporarily while he waited
for his visa for Venezuela but the church has reassighned all the
missonaries that were called to venezuela becuase of all the problems
the county has with the united states and the govement dosent want to
let the missonaries into the country. So he will be here in this mission
permanently, he was bummed to learn this but he took the news well. Our
new ward is awsome! we have received a lot of help these last two weeks
and everyone is very nice. So the biggest differnece between my old
secotr and my new sector is defidently the hills. I have been here for
two weeks now and still havent exsplored all the side paths and houses
that are up in the hills, The weather here is much nicer. it is nice and
cool late in the afternoon when the sun is setting and all through the
night. This last saturday some of the missonaries here in portoviejo
traveled to a smaller city about and hour away where there are no
missonaries and the entire city has 1-2 families that is active. we got
to go to this city to try and help the families there start up a branch,
it was awsome to go to a city where the people have never had
missonaries and i think very soon the mission will be putting
missonaries in parts of ecuador with little to no members! in all i am
loveing my new sector and am looking forward to all the things i will be
able to acomplish here. Have a good week mom i love you and miss you
With love, your son Elder Myler
To Dad for Father's Day:
HAPPY FATHERS DAY DAD!!!!!!!!!!!! sorry i missed this specal day and i
hope you had a good day. I am sorry i could not do something specal for
you the mission has been a bit more hectic here in Portoviejo. I am so
greatful for all you have done for me and for your exsample. We are
always teaching people about the impotance of the family unit in the
plan of God and everytime we teach about our families i think about you
mom chelsey and marcus (and sometimes jetter) I have i picture of us for
San Diego in my Bible so you are all with me every day haha. I know
that i wouldnt be the person i am today without your help and being here
in the mission has helped me develope more love for you and for our
heavenly father. I think that before my mission i didnt truly understand
a lot of things about the gosple and our family, my life at home and my
exsperiences in church were more or less routine and now i feel that
for 19 years i was just going through the motions, but now that i am a
missonary everything has changed. Things like the sacrament, the book of
mormon, the atoment of Jesus and our family have truly become important
parts of my life and i have grown to love these things so much here in
my mission. You have always been a great exsample for me and i am so
thankful that you and mom raised chelsey marcus and i in the church and i
am thankful for your love help and exsample for me. I know i wouldnt be
here in the mission if it wasnt for you and i know you still are an
exellent exsample for me. Thank you for being the best dad in the world
and thank you so much for all you have done for me. I love you and miss
you everyday
Your Son Elder Myler
