Dad happy birthday yesterday I was thinking of you.
This week was good and hard and the life of a missionary. A member that we used to visit all the time who is like active right now in the church but is she converted? Who knows. Anyway, we taught her grandson who is 20, and he got baptized his name is Juan Carlos, I'm a little prideful of him, he´s been blessing the sacrament these past couple weeks and he bore his testimony on Sunday. He's the kid who took off running after his baptism. So funny. Anyway, back to this week, the member who is semi-frito told us that the parents of Juan Carlos would like to listen to our message, so we made an appointment. We saw Juan Carlos before the cita (appointment) and he was really surprised that his parents wanted to listen. So we had a lesson and it was a pretty cool lesson, his first question was something that normally no one in Mexico understands for a long while he said: “Why do you guys say that this is the true church?” Most Mexicans are happy to be content with yeah all the religions are true. he showed real intent and I think Juan Carlos has been talking with him about all the stuff that we taught him. So yeah I'm really hoping to help this family find the same truth that their son found.
We have another investigator named Moises, a Mexican version to spell Moses, anyway I talked about him earlier he stepped on a nail like three years ago and it still hasn't healed all the way. He’s super cool the day we contacted him he was on his way to go and spend all his money on alcohol. We talked with him on the street and put an appointment. We learned that he hasn't gone and gotten wasted, like he normally would’ve, in like three weeks. We haven't taught the word of wisdom yet, but the hard part with him is he´s afraid to accept baptism because he doesn't wanted to get baptized and then stop going. The only hard part about teaching him is that he is only at his house Saturday and Sunday. He hasn't missed a Sunday at church or our appts. but he doesn't understand a ton so we have to teach him slowly, so he has three Sundays that he has come to church but we haven't even taught the whole restoration yet. Thats kind of a trial.
So about the area split: We got told about the split on Monday. We were told to look for and find a house by Tuesday (we found one but that fell through), the missionaries got here Thursday slept on our floor until last Monday, which is when we helped them move into their new house. Their area is on the bottom part of the ward. The other elders got the middle half of my area and half of their old area and we stayed in our same house but we have the hill. To get to our area we have to climb a hill for like 10 minutes. Ya its pretty ideal.
New Mission President:
Who knows whats different, hahaha in the meeting we had it was pretty much we love you guys and have been praying for you for about a 3 years we interested in your obedience and your own conversion rather than numbers of baptisms...... but the goal to baptize every week comes from the area presidency of Mexico. So none of the goals have been changed yet, and pretty much everything is status quo right now. President has been pretty sick his first week here so who knows if he hasn't just had time to do anything yet.
And no it wasn't hard to say goodbye to President Morales I liked the guy but he was super distant from us missionaries, like there was no mingling with us before the meetings or anything he came in spoke for a good long hour and the bounced to the next thing he had to do. His talks were always really great, but that was the end of the relationship I had with pres.
yeah i remembered that you guys were partying it up at bear on the 4th, and i was here. but i forgot halfway through that it was the 4th of July, it gets like colder here in the summer, and it was cloudy and rainy and there were no american flags or fireworks so working wasn't difficult. it was the first like holiday away from home though, ever. i didn't have any holidays except for halloween at BYU and I've never really counted that as a holiday cause we don't really celebrate it haha.
Oh there was this buck-naked dude on the street corner of the stake center after meeting with pres. hahahaha he was like rubbing his thighs with news paper.... It was really funny.
and the other day a combi, which is a van that they fit like 10 people in, similar to a tiny bus, was stopped in like the middle of a street as we walked by and it had the door open and the driver was calling to us amigo, amigo. hahaha we walked over to him and he was having like major leg cramps and was in a ton of pain hahahaha we like helped him change positions in his car and lay down and we accidentally hit his head as we closed the door, and his name was ‘Esnoopy' hahahaha such a strange experience.
Thats about it.
pics a super cool alleyway we found , a dog on top of a ghetto car, and me eating sabritones (its like lays chicharones), so good hahaha
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