Hola mama! Thank you so much (for the birthday wishes)! This will be my first birthday in the mission! hahahaha. I’m glad to hear about the fun things you guys did for the 24th and that over the weekend you guys went to visit grandma and grandpa.
We had a pretty good week last week. On Monday we would normally go shopping for food but we didn’t go because we were a little tight on money until the end of the week. That’s not a huge problem because we did have some food in the casa and members and people who are super kind and charitable enough to give us food. One of the greatest things I’ve seen on my mission is how willing people are to share what they have. They at times don’t have a lot but they share what they have and not only to the missionaries but to all people in general.
Tuesday we had a district meeting where we talked about goals and had practices like we were sharing our goals with either the Branch President or the Bishop and to ask them for help to carry out those goals that we have. It was a really great meeting! We also found out we can pass by every once in a while with the Hernandez Velazquez family and have short visits with them. We still don’t know for how long but short visits are better than nothing :). We also ran into the Branch President that day and he passed us 3 references! With E. Aguilar, I don’t think he ever gave us any references, it was really awesome!
Wednesday was the first time since I’ve been in this area, and I think in a long time, that we had a meeting with the Branch Mission Leader. We met with him in the casa of the Branch President. It was a good meeting, but it was about the same things that we talked about during Branch Conference last week. There are lots of goals and plans being talked about to help improve this area, but here we need action to be taken to carry out the goals and plans. That evening we had a lesson with Luna about the Book of Mormon and also talked about some of the basic beliefs we have in the church. It was a great lesson and she even told us she would like to be baptized one day.
Thursday I hit my 10-month mark in the mission! We found out that 2 references we received from our zone leader Elder Talbot live far away and we don’t have the dinero to travel right now. Our mission is one of the top 10 least paid missions in the world. We are hoping that the mensualidad (monthly payment) comes soon so that we have money to travel and to buy food for the casa. We had a 3rd lesson with one of our investigators named Jazmin. She owns a tienda and runs it with her 3 kids. She is very interested in learning about the church but at the same time doesn’t like making commitments with God. We are trying to help her though. She is a really good lady.
Friday we had a lesson with the assistant of Victor named Claudia. She is a really great lady and has had some crazy trials in her life. One of them being that her husband died 2 months ago and she has 5 kids to take care of. The oldest is 15 and the youngest is 4. She is a super nice lady and is very strong as well. We gave her a Book of Mormon, talked about what it is and how it can help her. We also invited her to come to church. It is awesome that she is working with Victor because he can help us teach her by sharing his testimony and experiences.
Saturday was a very tiring day. We walked a ton. We went to visit an investigator that I swear lives 2 miles away down a hill. He wasn’t home so we went to visit a reference from the Branch President that lives close to the investigator but he wasn’t home either. His wife told us to come back a couple hours later. So we walked back up the hill, the very long hill, to the center of Villa. Then we decided to visit Lorena, but where she lives we had to walk down a huge hill. After we were done visiting her, we walked back up the big hill, then back down the other super long hill, unfortunately, neither of the investigators were home still so we walked again back up to the plaza. It wasn’t a very effective day because no one was home and we had to walk a ton but it was still a good day though.
I really like that thought you shared about charity. In our principles of the gospel class, we taught about charity and it was really awesome! It is one of the most important Christlike attributes we can have because it can be one of the hardest to have. I like your thoughts though so thank you for sharing it! I will look up those scriptures as well. I want you to look up a scripture too in James 1:19. It is about how we need to be slow to speak and quick to listen. More often than not people are too quick to speak, to talk about or share what they think is best with what other people need to do but really what people need is just someone to listen first. Think of ways that you can listen better to help people!
Thank you for your email and birthday wishes!! love you Mamá!
(Pictures from the casa)
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