Elder Spencer's Mexico Mexico City North Mission: Words of Support and Counsel from Presidente and Hermana Urrea, and Spraining my Ankle

Hola Hola! Thanks so much for the email! I am doing good. After p-day ended we were supposed to have a lesson with Victor and Antonia where we were going to talk to them about Eternal Marriage, families and the Law of Chastity to help them understand why it’s so very important that they get married so they can be baptized, but it didn’t happen. They had to go somewhere far away for medicine for Antonia so we rescheduled for another day. So we went to an FHE with an old bishop and his family who are really cool! They gave us gorditas and candy then we had a lesson about obedience. The Bishop was trying to get his 13-year-old daughter to be better, she is in a rebellious stage, so we helped give a lesson on obedience and it went pretty great!

Tuesday we had interviews with President and Hermana Urrea, rather it really ended up being final words of support and counsel that really helped me a lot. I’m going to do my best to apply what President told us. We ended late with them but we were still able to go contacting and find a few contacts. We also had a lesson with Joselin about the Plan of Salvation. She had lots of questions, so we explained things very clearly to help her understand and it went really great! Now she just needs to come to church…

Wednesday in the afternoon/evening we went with one of the Bishop’s Counselors, Nefi, to have a lesson with a contact we found last week whose family is all members but the wife. We had a great lesson and tried to invite her to baptism but she thinks because she was baptized in the catholic church, even though she doesn’t go, that’s good enough. We are still going to try to visit and invite her one more time. On the way back to the casa we were running to make it back on time and took a short cut down a muddy hill, it had been raining a lot. Unfortunately, I slipped and fell and felt a pop in my left ankle followed by a lot of pain. I didn’t want to get home late, so I did my best to walk and we made it home on time. It hurt a lot though. There was no swelling or bruising so I think I just sprained it, and it’s feeling better now so that’s good. Oh we also found a couple really awesome contacts!

Thursday my ankle hurt quite a bit and it was hard to walk around but I did it. It was swollen a bit but still no bruising, so I was just careful as we walked around. Our appointments fell through or people canceled but on the bright side, we were able to find 10 new contacts. Again there’s a couple really solid ones we found that we hope good things will happen from.

Friday my ankle was a little more swollen than Thursday so I called the mission doctor and he told me some medicines to buy and other things to do to help me recover as quickly as possible. I also had a good teaching moment that day with my companion about how you can tell when someone isn’t interested in what you are saying. We were able to find 10 contacts again too.

Saturday was a really frustrating day. We were supposed to have a lesson with a super awesome woman who was one of our awesome contacts, but her husband wasn’t home and we couldn’t find anybody to come with us to visit her so we had to cancel and wait until sometime this week to passby again. After that one by one our appointments fell through. :(

Sunday, well we verified with Joselin all week that she was going to come to church, she said yes every time, but she didn’t come. We even called her in the morning and she said she would be there but she never showed up and we couldn’t get a hold of her after. So we are just going to stop going by… Church was really good though! The bishopric spoke about technology and the importance of paying attention during sacrament meeting and using technology to our advantage instead of using it for things of less importance and about paying tithing. Then we explored a colony of our area where we’ve never been and were able to visit a less-active family and go contacting where we found some really good contacts in a short about of time. We ended the day by visiting Jorge Cruz (our recent convert) and his family. We talked with them about the Plan of Salvation because Jorge’s mom recently passed away. They are an awesome family, I just love them!

Well I gotta go but I'll talk to you soon. I love you guys! Have a great week!