Primary children of the Samborondón Ecuador Stake got a taste of missionary life during a recent mini missionary training center activity in Guayaquil, Ecuador.
“The idea arose from a desire to help children have a firsthand experience of missionary life, with the purpose of planting in their hearts the desire to serve missions when they are old enough,” said Cristina Elizabeth Guaminga, first counselor in the stake Primary presidency.
Heavy rains that Feb. 21 morning threatened to flood the local meetinghouse and made roads difficult to travel. Samborondón Ecuador Stake President Edward Zambrano said he arrived at 6:30 a.m. to begin sweeping water out of the building. More Latter-day Saints arrived around 7:30 a.m. to help unclog gutters and drains.
As the time neared for Primary children to arrive, President Zambrano turned to the Lord for help. He called his counselors and asked them to pray for the rains to ease up enough for the children to travel to the mini MTC.
“I know He heard me,” President Zambrano said, “not because of who I am, but because of who they are—they are His little ones.”
To the surprise and delight of the stake Primary presidency, more than 100 children braved the weather to attend the activity, reported the Church’s Spanish-language Newsroom.
“We saw on their faces the desire, even at such a young age, to already be missionaries,” said Guaminga.
Read the full article from the Church News.
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