Our first zone conference Facebook pic!!

Kade's planner, he LOVES those pics!

New Comp?

He figured out a way to utilize his 30 minutes better!!!

12/12/16

One Month Down!!

wow! things go by fast here!!! haha so everything is great here haha the only problem is we got a new rule where we cant email very much anymore so i am sending a picture with a letter i wrote about this week for all you guys since i cant write much here!! haha just know everything is great!! my companion is hilarious and a goof but he is one of the hardest workers i know!

this week we had the awesome experience to see president moreno and he gave us a ride home and bought us food haha i love him he is amazing! our investigators are doing great they just need encouragement going to church haha that is the main challenge here is going to church!! haha

so spiritual time! i am sending a picture of my agenda because i love the picture of the Shepard's running to Bethlehem i want you all to read that part in Luke chapter 2 because we need to be like those Shepard's, we have a savior and we know we do and because of that we need to run to him!! I love you all!! and HAPPY BIRTHDAY JENI!!!!!!!!!!! haha i have a picture for you im gonna send next week!!! 

ELDER BIGELOW.... the one and only

12/5/16

week 3 I love Ecuador!!!!

hey everyone!! haha this week was great i have so much i want to say but so little time! i love all you guys first off! but the mission changed rules and i can only email like one letter to everyone so just know I love ya!! haha but this week with our investigators was hard only two of them came to church but the didn't come to sacrament meeting soo  all of our dates fell!! which was really sad! but we are going to work really hard this week to get them to come!!!

a funny story that happened this week is we were teaching a recent convert and this dude was in the house working one the electricity and he had his knife and was just ramming it into  this outlet and i kept thinking man this guy is gonna die haha what is he doing and like the 5th time he did it he just started flipping out hahahha it was shocking him ahah but no one said anything so i was like dying inside!!! hahaha but he is okay now and alive it was just funny!! 

haha çour investigators we are working with now is jennifer, jamillth and monica they are all amazing and really need this gospel in there lives!!

haha so i studied a lot of captain moroni today and i love him!! haha we all need to make a covenant like him that we will always stand for christ because God wil only suffer us to be destroyed in our own transgressions so if people make fun of you for being mormon that's ok haha because the lord is on your side if you are choosing the right!!!! alma chapter 46

i love you all!!! 

shoulder to the wheel like a nascar crew!!!!

have a great week 

the day dawn is breaking!! 

Elder Bigelow!!!

His View... I am guessing!!

Kade's Trainer, Elder Salazar!!

His Ward/Branch

11/28/16

This is the Shiz!!!!

haha week 2 down!! this week has been crazy!!! i had exchanges on Wednesday and i got to go out with elder Terrones one of the zone leaders who has like 3 months left! he is a really cool guy just super trunky! which kinda stinks but i learned a lot from him!! haha 

but things are great here Friday and Saturday were probably the hottest days of my life haha hermano parker and marchant i already got the stains we were talking about haha just from those two days!!!

but the food here is great! i love the juice!! the only one that sucks is like this tomato juice haha it tastes like alkaseltzer hahaha but we got 3 new baptismal dates! there names are genisis and alison and yamille and her mom monica! they are really cool people and i am glad to share the gospel with them!! 

sorry for not a long email but i love you guys thanks for the support i will do better next time!!!! have a great week!!!!

you know I'm just out here grindin.. I'm workin hahaha some of you might get this!!

Elder Bigelow

11/21/16

My first epic week in Ecuador!

So I don’t have a ton of time but I will say as much as I can! first off HOLY CRAP haha I am in Ecuador!! it’s amazing though I really love it! I have and amazing trainer his name is Elder Salazar and he is from Ecuador! he is such a hard worker and I am blessed to have such a great trainer! 

I am in the area of Eden its right in Guayaquil! it is tiny but there is sooo much work to do here we are constantly teaching and talking to people it’s great! I am so blessed to be out here on a mission I love it! so the craziest thing that happened this week is some dude ran up to us and started asking for like clothes and stuff it was sketchy haha so we gave him and mango and left! hahahahaha we have 3 progressive investigators! they are really cool people and I am so excited to talk with them about the gospel! 

I know this is exactly where the lord wants me and I love it!! haha the food is great and I love the people here!!! thank you for all of your support! I love you guys!!!

"have I done any good"

Elder Bigelow!!!

Welcome to Ecuador

11/16/16

MADE IT!!

Hey I am alive and my first area is in Guayaquil it is called Eden! My companion’s name is Elder Salazar, I first just want to say this place is nuts! Like nothing here is like America! Haha but I love it, honestly it’s amazing! I just can’t really understand anything but who cares!!! haha today we went to eat at a member’s house and she gave us a ton of food! and I had to give the spiritual thought hahaha it was amazing! the buses here are probably the craziest thing ever I do not like them hahaha but anyways I can’t say much cause I have to go but I love you guys everything is great!! I love this work!!!!! 

TKOGON

Kade and Cade!! his teacher

Hair Cut!!

Saying goodbye!!

Teachers!!

11/13/16

I'M READY

Wow, this MTC experience has just flown by its super crazy!! I absolutely love this place and it’s honestly hard to leave but I am sooooooo ready for this! I honestly have not been able to sit still all day and my stomach has been like crazy in all my meetings today! haha but I am so ready! It was so hard saying goodbye to everyone in my zone though!! Like I love them all soo much! There were definitely tears shed!!!! One of the hardest things was saying goodbye to my teachers! They are amazing and I really am super grateful for everything they have done for me! I am totally gonna come visit them when I get back they rock!!!!

It’s gonna be rough saying goodbye to my comp Elder Manua.... I love him! We have become so dang close!!! But I will see him after the mission!!!

soo my teacher told me something this week Hermano Parker, he said that I should come at everything with a happy attitude like when you get a door slammed in your face or when someone calls you a name just get right back up and keep going with the best attitude porque that is super important and the Lord with bless us!!!

IM READY!!!!!

Hadn't got his flight plans so he was a little sad :(

Alaska is his home!!

11/9/16

Pues..... this is crazy!! IT seems like last week was when I got here!!! Honestly I am going to miss this place a lot!! It has been just an amazing experience! So first off some more news my companion Elder Harris went home which was sad I really liked him but he had some struggles he needed to take care of before coming back out.

SOOOOO I got my flight plans this week!!!! I leave Monday at 2:30 in the morning!!! haha my first flight is to Dallas where I have like a 3 hour layover!! haha and then to Miami! and then finally to Guayaquil!!!! I am really excited but super nervous at the same time! I am just so ready to share the gospel! last night we had a devotional by Joy D Jones the primary general president and she said "Smile, you have the greatest message in the universe and it’s free" that made me really happy and excited to bring people to Christ!!!!

Soo I have a really cool experience I want to share with you guys! Yesterday we did this thing called a skype member TRC! it’s where we go skype a random member and share like a spiritual message so we can get used to talking to native people! We got this guy named Joe! he is from Mexico and he is a beast!! But me and Elder Manua did a lesson about being a member missionary! And in the middle of it we asked him why would he want to share the gospel with people around him and he bore such a powerful testimony on how much joy the gospel has brought him and why wouldn’t he want to share it!! and then he turned to me and said Elder Bigelow (in Spanish of course) I know you are struggling with the language but I want you to know that you will get it down! he said that the spirit will teach me everything even not spiritual things and all that I had to do is keep praying and being like 100 percent obedient and then Spanish will come fast for me! I felt the spirit so strong and so I bore my testimony and when I spoke I wasn’t like fluent or nothing but I could say exactly what I wanted and I didn’t really stumble around it was amazing haha I almost bawled my eyes out hahahaha but that was just so spiritual I loved it!!!!

Other things that happened this week is Jenny Oaks Baker came and did a performance for us on Sunday night and it was incredible!!! haha I got a sweet looking haircut and I am still the champion at 4 square!! last gym time I was king for like 30 minutes it was legit!! hahaha

I just want to end with my testimony that I know that Jesus Christ lives and that he died for me!! I know that Gods plan for us is perfect and amazing and that the Atonement is real!! if there is one thing I could say to all of you and that I have learned pretty well here is to not care what anyone else thinks about you but the Lord!!! Because people may think you are lame for keeping rules or other things but who cares!! because when you know the Lord is happy then you should be happy with yourself!! and just use the atonement often it should be your best friend!!!! I love all you guys!! and I can’t wait for Ecuador!! next time I email you I will be it the promised land!!!! :)

The Kingdom of God or Nothing!!!

TKOGON

Elder Bigelow... the man, the myth, the legend!!!!

Blow-up Sword Fight!

Temple Walk with his District!

Mission Shirts

He couldn't remember what was so funny!!

Another Trio!!