This week was a good week... On Monday right after I stopped writing the assistants called and said that they were going to spend the night in our house because we had Zone Conference the next day. So they got here around 7:30 and went to an appointment with us and then stayed the night in our house. It was fun to teach with Elder Flores again. We have both grown a lot. It was good to talk to him. He always knows what to say when you need it haha that was one of my favorite things about him in my training. He is doing well and told me to tell you all hi. He saw my calender and was jealous and asked if you could send him one. Was it expensive? Because if you can send another one, he said just the same as mine, that would be nice :) but if not I will give him mine no big deal. He goes home in October and it probably takes a while to get here no? so if it is going to take too long I will just give him mine.
Poor Adalynn! She is already in my prayers every day but I will pray that she gets better!
Weird that Seth and Cassie are getting married. And Weird that Stephen and the Bury boys are getting home so soon. I feel like they just left, right before me, no?
The area is going well. Not as well as we would like it but it is improving. We are trying out some new ideas that are working well. One of our investigators, Freyda, who was kinda off and on, we didn't have too much hope of progress, and had pretty much dropped her, we went by her house just to see how she was doing and she told us that she had received her answer and knew it was true and wanted to be baptized! It was awesome because in the 6 months she has known missionaries she has never accepted a baptism date but she accepted! Apparently she has had 3 dreams where her dad, who passed away, talks to her. In the latest one he told her to be baptized in the church so she could prepare his name to go to the temple and be baptized! That was an awesome feeling hearing that story! She committed to read and pray every day but she wouldn't commit to going to church every week because she works and they don't let her have every Sunday off. She said she will work on it. She said she was planning on coming to church yesterday but didn't show up.
We had another investigator in church yesterday whose name is Alicia. We had only taught her once or twice and we weren't really THAT hopeful that she would come to church. I mean she said she was going to go, but if everyone that SAID they were going to go actually went we would have like 10 investigators every week in church haha. But she actually came and she loved it! She did later complain about the noisy kids but, hey, welcome to a Mormon church. She is very interested in learning more and is going to read the Book of Mormon this week. The hard part is she works all day every day and only has Saturday and Sunday off so we can only teach her those days :/
We have lots of hopes for our current investigators. If they would just KEEP the commitments they accept, they would have much less problems! Thats a question for Brad. How can I invite and commit people better? They ACCEPT but they dont FULFILL.
Ummm about addresses, pretty much there are addresses. Mail doesn't really EXIST in Mexico haha but yah the streets here actually have names generally which is an improvement but the number system is all messed up. they don't go in order everyone just chooses a random number to stick on their house. what we use most of the time is which streets their house is between and their "manzana" and "lote" which is like their block and their lot. Its a bit interesting finding addresses here :)
Lots of people think of conference as one week of rest from going to the church. Which would be ok if they watched conference in their houses but they don't haha. Most people come to Sunday morning and priesthood, but the others they don't care much :( And ya the bishopric had to do their report so they did it during conference. Welcome to Mexico.
How Has the restored gospel blessed my family? Well... We have the surety that families can be eternal through our obedience to the laws and ordinances of the gospel. We have a correct understanding of our relationship with Heavenly Father. We have a living prophet to guide us through modern trials and problems, we have access to revelation and scripture that most of the world doesn't know. Lots of ways :)
Sorry to hear about your cousin :( Share with him how prayer helps you receive strength to overcome trials in your life. Maybe the man has never REALLY prayed in his life, and now is when he needs it most. Don't be afraid to share what you know :)
Love you!
Elder Skalla
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