Week 18 in Mexico

San Vicente

Haha tell Waime and all the coaches hi from me too. Ya, changes are next week and I kind of hope to stay another with this comp. But I am kind of already preparing for another because he has already been here for 6 months. He is still in his first area, so I am pretty sure he is leaving. But who knows.

We had two baptisms this last week and they came out of nowhere. We went all day looking for a house to rent so that we could move this guy out of his house so that they could live the law of chastity. He came back from his vacation to get divorced, and we had it all ready to go. I spent basically all my money on the rent, but don’t worry the church is going to pay me back. So he came back and that same day we baptized him and his future wife. They are very strong and they have already been going to church for two or three months. They seem like members.

Wow Tiger, what an idiot. Well, that goes to show you what money can do for ya. Ruins your career, family, etc. And I bet he feels great about that......... not.

Oh ya, I just read Mosiah 26 and 27 too. It’s sooooo dope. And I compared it to, in 26, when we receive new callings in the church and we don’t want to screw up and we don’t feel qualified. Alma received a calling to judge the people and he didn’t know how so he prayed to the Lord to know what to do.

Hey, thanks for asking me if I am keeping my weekly goals because I have not been doing the best at those. Ask me every week so that I get into a habit.

Wow, that is weird that they are in the same mission prep class. Tell Ali I said hi and I will try to write him soon.

Well, it sounds like all is well back at home and I am glad to hear that. I have come to learn this week that I think I doubt at times the promise given that I can receive revelation for other people when we are teaching and I can know what to say if I just listen. I was thinking why I doubt myself so much. It is just a lack of faith. I have been praying all week to try and recognize more the promptings of the Spirit and that lack of faith comes from the conscience that I am not doing all I can to receive that revelation. If I know I am keeping every rule possible, I am not going to have a doubt that I will receive revelation for the people we teach. God knows all the people we teach and he knows exactly what they need to hear. But if I have not prepared myself for those promptings they are never going to hear what they need to. So I am working on that.

It was kind of a slower week and we didn’t put up many numbers because we were looking for a house and other little things like that, but I am going to pick up this week.

You will never believe it but I got hit on by a 65 year old gringo here in Mexico. My comp and I were checking out some shoes on our p day and he walked in and stood way close to me and started to check them out with us. Then he asked me if I liked one pair and I said jokingly ‘ya, those are hot,’ because he seemed like a cool old guy that would understand that phrase. But this is when it gets weird; he says back to me ‘you are hot’!!!!! I still thought he was just messing around. Then later we were looking at some other pairs and he came up and started talking to us and said ‘ya, i like those ones too but I go up to the United States and can get them for cheep to bring down for my boyfriend.’ My comp and I were silent. Then later he said that we were guapo, or hot. He was a creep for sure. Then he left and came back again and he bought a chick shirt for his boyfriend then finally he left. Anyway, that definitely went in the journal.

Well I am putting up my goals so that you can ask me:

1. Come up with better questions to ask during the lesson so that the investigators think deeper, for lesson 1.

2. Do one activity from Preach My Gospel every day.

3. Don’t waste time at the member's house eating lunch.

4. 5 contacts every day.... for myself.

5. Do one nice thing for my comp every single day.

6. Pray for more faith and confidence in myself to receive the promptings of the Spirit.

7. Memorize 6-8 new words every day.

8. Study one principle every day of lesson 2..... teach so they understand.

9. Memorize the three scriptures of the week.

10.Testify to every person that I contact and ask for reference from every person I talk to.

That is what I am going to focus on and I will report next week. Haha I find it easier when other people are checking on me even though it shouldn’t be that way. But it’s all good. I am feeling good about the language and I always wish I could talk like the other missionaries but I can’t compare myself to others. Well there is another goal;don’t compare myself. I am trying to come closer the Holy Ghost every single day. I love one line in Preach My Gospel about Lesson 3 the Holy Ghost that says the Holy Ghost gives us an idea of what the eternal life will be like. That is so cool to know that we can feel of those blessings right now in this life if we are living worthy of them.

Well, I love you all so much and I can’t believe how fast time flies. I am trying to become better every single day so that I can say at the end that I did all that I could to bring others unto Christ. I can’t thank you all enough for the examples you have been to me. I have learned so much from every one of you and that is why I am here right now helping others come unto Christ. I want others to have the same blessings that I have and that our family has. And I am willing to do all I can for that. I want others to know of the joy that comes from this gospel. Knowing of surety that we have the truth and that through it we can return to live with our Heavenly Father. And when they come unto our Heavenly Father and Christ in the judgment they can say that they have taken the steps necessary to achieve eternal life. That is why am here and I need to keep reminding myself because at times I forget my purpose and slip up on one rule or another. That is showing that I am selfish. I am doing what I want to do rather than what the Lord would have me do. I am not helping anyone else come unto Christ and can’t help anyone else come unto Christ when I am not keeping the rules. Because if I don’t keep the rules then I don’t have the Spirit and if I don’t have the Spirit then I can’t teach and they will never feel the Spirit testify to them. So it all comes down to being unselfish and diligent. Well, I just had the let that out and kind of rededicate myself. Just ask me questions like that every once and a while so I can rededicate myself and make sure I am doing what I should be.

Well I love you all and hope you have a good week. Dad, how is the work, is it picking up or there is not any because of the snow? Anna, do you have any questions? I need to hear from the Jolly Green Giant.