August 18, 2014

Family, another solid week from the Mexico puebla Mission. After this week i can now say that now what real rain is. On wednesday thursday and friday from about 2 to 8 it poured. And it is totally didfferent from utah rain, here its like people are just dumping five gallon buckets of water on you time after time needless to say we have been soaked.

The good nes of the week is that Guadalupe now has a baptism date. WOO WOO for september 7. Right now he is so golden. We taught him all the hard stuff this week like chastity, titheng, word of wisdom and he accepted all of it and its way sweet cause its just like it makes so much sense to him. He came to church yesterday even though he scared us and showed up 55 minutes late, but it still counts. Now he only needs two more sundays. As for Enrique im sorry to say that we are no longer teaching him cause im not sure why, i thought our lesson we had with him was very good this week then the following day i asked my comp when we were teaching enrique again and my comp told me that was our last lesson and enrique didnt want anymore haha needless to say ill be really glad for the day that i can understand what their saying. I probably get like one out of every five words that they say cause by the time i translate a word into english in my head theyve already said five more ha.

I got to go on exchanges this week with an american zoneleader because my comp is district leader so that was super good. I had no clue when you went on exchanges that you spent the night in the other area. It was good to talk in english for a day and i learned alot of stuff from this elder. I now know why i prob wont ever have a american comp in my mission because when two white guys are together people yell at you tons haha but if your with another latino its all good.  I learned that the area that we are in is the biggest area in the mission and that our branch that were in isnt even a branch, its what they call a group. Our group doesnt have a branch pres of anything, how they do it is that a member of the bishopric from serdan comes to our group every sunday. We had zone meeting on wednesday and i got to see elder davidson my comp from the mtc their which was really cool. Him and his comp got transferred to our zone two days earlies because the hermanas their were getting stalked haha you meet some goofy people on the mission. I had my first experience of someone else talking while i was saying a prayer, that was really weird. And i met my first white guy this week other than a missionary that speaks english and he was telling me about this dark spirit that he sees over tlxichuca that is our area haha.

Our few members here are way awesome. They are way involved in everything that we do. We taught one lesson this week and it was absolutely nuts. Because we had four members with us for some reason cause they all like live on the same street and saw that we were teaching and just wanted to come. Just imagine two missionaries, papa law, blaine, mark dennis and allen wallace all trying to teach an investigator about the restoration. Needless to say the lesson was kinda all over the place but it was still good. The other investigators that we have are all doing alright, pray for pedro, julia, clemente.

We got to do service yesterday and it brang back great memories of the childhood because we were seriously out in a field with machetes trying to cut down bushes and little trees haha. I just kept thinking of being in our field with the brothers and dad doing the same thing,

We had a way powerful lesson yesterday and it was way awesome with two brothers and theirr spouses. It was israels family, israel is the last baptism this place had over a year ago. And he has been trying to get his family to listen to the missionaries fort the past year and somehow yesterday got them to. SO we went to their house and they were about ready to eat so it was suppose to be a quick fifteen minute lesson. At first they were kinda cold to us but then we had a sweet hour and a half lesson on the planof salvation and really focusing it on families. It was just cool to see their countenance change and to see them warm up to us. You could tell that they felt the spirit and at the end they had us stay for dinner.

THat is all for this week, I love you guys. The church is true