Hola mamá! This last week was an awesome week with finding new investigators (more on that later). Monday we went to stop by the house of Jorge Cruz and his family for a quick visit and they invited us in, gave us fruit water, fruit and popcorn. His little granddaughter Maria is so stinking cute! We also re-taught Jorge the Plan of Salvation.
Tuesday in district meeting we talked about verifying with investigators if they are reading the Book of Mormon, praying and are going to come to church. If they are not doing any of these, especially with reading the Book of Mormon, we need and should act devastated and not be too casual about it because like Elder Holland says in Predicad Mi Evangelio, “This is Eternal life. This is the Salvation of the Children of God. Eternity hangs in the balance… It is the most important path this investigator will ever walk.” So we need to help them realize this. Later we visited with a woman named Edith Carrillo and taught her about the Restoration, then invited her to be baptized and she accepted! She and her family are really nice.
Wednesday we had interviews with President and Sister Urrea and teaching evaluations. It went good. President talked about the importance of following the rules of the mission and staying firm. I’m trying to teach my companion all of that right now because he is still trying to learn and understand the mission, and I don’t want him to turn into a rebel Elder :).
Thursday we had a bunch of appointments that kept falling through, so we used the time to passby people we had appointments with In the past to reschedule but even they weren’t home. Then we got lost trying to find a reference from other missionaries – the number system of the houses here in Mexico is not good. It was a rough day… until our last appointment. It was with our neighbors Jackeline and Jose Luis and their youngest daughter Guadalupe. They are a super awesome family. We were able to talk with them to get to know them, have a lesson about the Restoration and then invite them to be baptized to which they excitedly accepted! It was a great way to end a rough day.
Friday we decided to look for some less-active families and were able to find one family and talk with them a little bit, then we organized a day to go back with other members to minister to them. We were also able to contact 7 new people throughout the day, then after we got home we started preparing our talks for Sunday, since me and my companion had to speak in church.
Saturday we were able to find one new investigator, a young guy named Eduardo Godinez. He is Christian but he has had lots of problems and trials in his life so he is very interested in talking with us and learning about the Plan of Salvation. We are excited and looking forward to the next appointment with him. Thankfully to Heavenly Father we were able to find all the people that we did. Now we just need to keep working hard and God will help us find more.
Sunday we gave our talks. My companion spoke on the atonement and I spoke on the resurrection and it went well, at least I hope it did anyway :). After church Concepcíon canceled so we went to visit a couple other people before lunch. Lunch was amazing! The family made us ribs with spaghetti, bread, corn bread, and flan and holy smokes it was so good! After that we were able to find a few contacts.
I loved the thoughts you guys sent!! My thought is from Tad R. Callister from this last conference. At one point he said something along the lines of, "if any of us are imperfect we need to pray for the gift that will make us perfect." BOOM!!
I love you guys too and I hope you have an awesome week!!! DO WORK!
Thought from last week (that I forgot to include):
I have a bunch of talks on a flash drive and have been reading a bunch of Liahona’s that we have in the house. One quote I really like is from Elder Robert D. Hales "If I make this choice, what is the worst thing that could happen?" meaning we always need to be thinking about the consequences of our actions and choices and how they are going to affect us and the people around us!
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