September 3
Heyyyy This weeks been gooooood, soooooooo goooood. We had a “bautizona”!! We married Jorge and Graciela outside of the mission in another state and then they got baptized along with 9 other people! Such a good day! Both Jorge and Graciela got up on Fast Sunday to bear their testimonies. It was soooo powerful. They cried and thanked God for the church! Sooooooo cool. I am sure they will get sealed in a year or so. At their baptism, 4 other companionships baptized investigators and we all sang the EFY song “Come unto Christ” in Spanish and it was sooooo spiritual. Everyone was crying at the end. I asked Graciela if my comp could baptize her and my greenie, Elder Jiminez, was able to baptize her during his first month as a missionary; he was sooooo stoked!!!!! I felt way happy for him. We had like 80 people at the baptism so we had to go to the sacrament room to fit everyone. When we baptized them, it was like the Waters of Mormon, just one after another! Sooooo cool!
I looooooooooooooooooooooove Mexico and I looooooooove the mish!
I have been studying in Preach My Gospel about the importance of goals and I love how goals make it so we need to work hard and stretch ourselves. If we don’t have goals, we will not be able to progress in the way we can with goals. Our potential cannot be achieved if we do not make plans and goals for ourselves. Its so important and has as much to do with missionary work as it does with the rest of my life. SO MAKE GOALS AND PLANS
I love you guys so much and I’m sorry for being brief but I gotta go back to my area and it’ll take and hour or so but keep being awesome! love you guys so much!
September 24
Everything is going sooooooo well here in Mexico. We have been having a lot of success and the members really want to help us. We received like 10 references from them this week alone. We found a lot of awesome families. We baptized Ximena and Santiago!!!! It was way funny. The water was way cold cuz the heater broke. So when we walked in, Santiago was like “noooo its soooo cold” and then he kinda let out a squeal and sprinted out of the water afterwards. Ximena got in with me, pretty scared then really cold. She also let out a squeal, but after going all the way down she just froze, hahaha, and she lifted up her legs and just floated there. I had to carry her out, hahaha. They got way cold and Ximena got sick. I gave her a blessing that night and she felt fine the next day in her confirmation.
We have a family of 5 that are new. It was a crazy lesson. Their house is the size of the man cave (single bedroom size) and it just has metal sheet for roofing (which has many holes). Their house floods because of the rain, but also you can’t hear a single thing in there when it rains because the rain hitting the metal is soooo loud. So it was raining hard and we were trying to teach but we literally had to yell. I was praying in my head the whole time that the rain would go away, but nothing happened. Then I had an idea. I communicated to my comp that we split up, he talked with the parents and I talked with the 4 kids (ages 5,8,9,10). We talked about Jesus and prayer. They all looked scared and it turns out they are all scared of hard rain. I asked if they had ever said a prayer, they said no. “Do you want to?” I asked. They really did a lot. They said they knew it was talking with God and that it would help them. I said they were right and that they could ask God anything and he would listen to them. I explained how to pray and they were all very intent. Then I asked who would like to say a prayer and the oldest one immediately said he would do it. So us 5, me and the kids, prayed together. He thanked God for his family and for food and for a house and he prayed for happiness and safety, for comfort and that God would take away the rain, I felt the Spirit a lot, especially when he asked for the rain to go away. He ended the prayer very content and happy. 2 minutes later, the rain stopped completely. We were able to talk to everyone again. My comp had invited the parents to accept a baptismal date, which they did. We then asked if they’d like to be baptized as a family, if the kids also wanted to be baptized. We explained it a little and all 5 want to get baptized the 20th of October!!!!!! It was amaaaazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!(Familia Victoriano)
We also found a family but didn’t get to teach them anything that night (Saturday night). But they asked us about church and practically invited themselves. They came yesterday and loved it! (Fam Dominguez)
It’s been an incredible week. I am sooooooooooooooo stoked! We are seeing soooo many blessings here!
Let me know how things are going back at home and how scripture study is going. I love the scriptures. I’m reading in Acts right now. I love how Saul was able to convert even after he had done so many wrongs to the disciples. I love how the disciples, being human, were hesitant and scared to let him with them, but were able to forgive him in the end. I want to be more like Saul and more like the disciples. I need to be even more converted and truly give myself to the Lord and also I need to be able to trust and forgive more rapidly like the Disciples. I loooooove their devotion to the Lord and how Peter, just days after his talk with Christ (“Do you love me”), was so converted and so Christ-like that the people in the street would bring their sick for even a chance that the SHADOW of Peter might pass by them. I need to be more like these amazing missionaries.
I loooove the mish and am more than happy to be here.
Love you guys lots and I am so proud to have such an awesome family.
