Elder Spencer's Mexico Mexico City North Mission: Finding Isaias and Norma

Hola Padres Míos! This week was super awesome! And Tuesday was super awesome. One of the best parts was when we were contacting in the morning. We knocked on a door and a woman answered. When we introduced ourselves and asked if she would be interested in hearing our message she said yes that we could come back another day, and then she said oh hang on and then went back into her house for a minute or two. Then came back out and asked if we had time right now and if we could wait for 5 minutes for her husband to get home because he wanted to talk to us. At first I was thinking okay this is going to be interesting. But when he got there they invited us in to talk with them and they were even kind enough to give us food! We were so surprised and super happy because they have lots of questions about a ton of things. I’m pretty sure we taught a few points from each of the 5 lessons with them because of how many questions they had and it was great! I could feel the spirit super strong and was able to have the spirit help me explain some things. We taught very clearly and detailed. It was a great experience that hasn’t happened very often. At the end of the lesson we invited them to be baptized and the husband, Isaias, excitedly said yes but his wife, Norma, didn’t because she wants to honor her family by staying catholic. We know that if we can get them to church and teach them with the spirit and get them to pray, we can get her to accept to be baptized and they can be baptized with their kids too. It was just super amazing!

Wednesday we had our zone conference which was really great. We talked about the importance of talking with everyone and at the end of each day evaluate our contacts for quantity and quality and look for more and do better the next day. We talked about a lot of other things as well but it was really good. We ended late so we ended up sleeping in the casa of the zone leaders and going back to our casa the next morning.

Thursday we visited Esteban to see how he is doing with everything and to invite him to church on Sunday. Then we went to go see Nicolasa and to see if she had talked with her partner about getting married; and yes they’ve talked about it and are planning to, but first they need to find a place that isn’t super expensive. We’re working with members to see if they can help us find someone to help Nicolasa. We also contacted a bit and ended the day with 5 contacts. It was a good day.

Friday we had intercambios and I went with Elder Loomis. All of the appointments that we had fell through, so that was kinda rough. Then Elder Loomis got a call saying that there was a sister missionary in the zone who hurt her foot and wasn’t able to walk, so we had to go find her and try to help her. After we got that settled we continued contacting and ended the day with only 4 contacts in total. I just thought to myself, tomorrow is a new day though.

Saturday, we had another lesson with Lupita who we taught the week before. We had another really great lesson about the Restoration. This time at the end we invited her to be baptized and sadly she declined because she doesn’t yet understand, but I think if we can get her to come to church she will start converting and accept to be baptized. Also, in the morning we were able to find our 4 contacts before lunch. We went to a lesson with Edith where we taught her and then had to re-invite her to be baptized. She was originally supposed to be baptized on Saturday but she didn’t have all her attendances at church. We talked about the importance of going to church and partaking of the sacrament. She needs to go at least 2 more times if she wants to be baptized. We were able to talk with her youngest son, Jahir, and invite him to church with his mom; and to our surprise, he excitedly accepted!

Sunday was a super great day! Esteban, Edith and Jahir, Jorge and his son Daniel all went to church and were there to partake of the sacrament. Our zone leaders told us after church ended that the attendances for Daniel and Jahir didn’t count toward our numbers because they aren’t investigators and don’t have a baptismal date. But if we could go by and find them and commit them to a baptismal date then we could count them. So that’s what we did and they accepted! We passed by with all 5 people who went to church and they told us it was really great. They liked it a lot and are hoping to go back next week. We also had 3 new investigators by the end of the day! We had 3 because we found a kid who is 10 but isn’t baptized. His parents are members and gave us permission to go and teach him!

Man I can’t tell you how much I miss the snow! I saw the video of Koda playing in the snow. Ah I love him and miss him so much! :) Wow how fun that Yvette, Amanda and Stephanie dropped by to say hi! How are they doing?

To answer your question, we weren't able to go by and help the people with the spirits because of the Zone Conference we had but we are still going to try and go back another day to help. Thank you so much for all the advice and things you sent me! It’s not the first time that I’ve been asked to do something like this so at least I have a little experience but yeah thankfully it’s not a huge problem. Thank you so much though! Also, we went to the Chinese buffet for lunch today hahaha.