Hey, so our three baptisms went through but we baptized them after church so they are going to get confirmed this week coming up. Well, I am really pumped to be here another change and I think there is much work to do here. This zone was a different zone. It was very different than any other zone that I have had. We had a unity and a vision that I think many others don't have in the mission. Really I am so thankful for my zone leader, Elder Harding. He really taught me so much about how the mission should be and how we should see it. I think I looked at it from a very different angle before. But now I feel happier with myself and with my mission. Before I would think that in one week if I didn't meet all my goals then I was not doing something right and that I wouldn't baptize because I wasn't completing my goals even though we were working really hard. And when that happened I would freak out and say 'What do we need to do differently?' and be continually changing things. When in reality that is how the mission is. You just need to be constant and keep working how you know how to do it. It's not such a secret, you just need to get out there and work smart. If we work well, the blessings have to come because it is a promise from God, but they will come in His due time.
Well for Thanksgiving there is a member here who grew up in Cali and he speaks way good English and I think he is going to make us a Thanksgiving dinner!! But a real one like we do it back home, not like the KFC that we ordered last year.
We are going to baptize maybe 2 this week but we are not sure about the kid, his name is Axle, because his mom never wants to take him to church and she is never home. She is a less active and knows that he needs to be baptized but just won't take that step, we are working with her. Well this week we had a lesson with a guy named Rigoberto, he is the husband of a new member and we had been teaching him ever since I got here. He went to church and everything but he would not get baptized if his life depended on it. But the problem is that whenever we want to talk with him his wife is always there and she pretty much answers the questions for him. He never talked!! So we put an appointment in the chapel with him and we were hoping that he would show up alone, but nope, she came too. So she talked for like the first 10 minutes without taking a breath I am pretty sure. Honestly I could not get one word in there to cut her off, she never gave me a chance.... but finally we started asking him questions and found out his doubt and we taught about the 3 kingdoms and told him that he couldn't go to the celestial because he said that he felt fine going to church and all that but he didn't see the reason why he needed to get baptized. We taught him that and asked him, 'Do you feel good knowing that you can't live with your family nor your Father in Heaven, and that you will live alone the rest of your life?'.... he stopped there and started thinking. It hit him. We put a date and he said he would tell us the next day what he would do. So we went the next day and we were literally there for like an hour just waiting for his answer. Finally he came out with it. For the last month he had been praying to get a house for his family and he got all of the loans and everything way quick and they are moving in this week and we are going to help them. We read the Book of Mormon and prayed with him and he said he had not received an answer. We were going to drop him but when he told us this we understood why. He told himself that if he got the house and everything turned out well, he would get baptized!!!! He was waiting for his answer and it came. He got the house and God proved to him that prayer is real and now he is getting baptized this Saturday. He just needs to stop drinking coffee. Pray for him..
I love you all and thank you for your prayers. They help us and comfort us in those hard times. Hey mom, maybe a tie for me and Elder Mckell, yeah I know that's crappy English. Thanks...
Adios.....
Here is our baptism that we had this week.
I am eating a chicken bush, yeah they cut them like that sometimes and its totally normal...
Here is the base of the missionaries here in Guzman. We can go there whenever we need anything and there is always someone there to help us or feed us....
