January 16, 2015

Family!!!!!1

Such a good week here, seriously the best week in this area.

First off...............Emioion was baptized yesterday at seven thirty in the morning hahahahahhahahhahaha because he wanted to see who his true friends were and im happy to say that we actually had quite a bit of people show up from the ward. It was a great experience and the spirit is so strong. It was so funny becaues the water was freezing cold and you could tell by my comps face and Emilio's noises that they were suffering a bit haha but still it  was a great moment. Emilio shared his testimony and it is just strong and he is so excited and really is changing. He always calls us missionaries the sharks haha but his family is super catholic and his wife and daughter didnt come to the baptism but hopefully little by little they can see his example and warm up. He is super well off, he is probably one of the top guys here in tlaxcalla and i dont know what he does but i know he has tons of businesses and has invented this camera that has been huge. We have lunch with him this afternoon so im looking forward to that.

Second thing......I have changes tomorrow. hahaha I don't know really how i feel about it because this week was just sweet. So we have four elders in our ward and all of us have changes but my little son Elder Chacon haha so he's going to be returning tomorrow with three newbies in the area but he's ready and will do good.

This week we had tons of sucess. We have really struggled with finding new investigators here because the ward doesn't give references but this week we found two golden investigators. One is the nephew of someone in our ward and his name is Matchal and he is 21. He is methodist but is looking to change because of the problems that he has had. He has been to church two times and is ready for baptism if the Book of Mormon is true. The other is named Justino, we had been contacting like crazy and its never really effective but i have a strong testimony that maybe your not going find many through it but your going to recieve so many blessings. And that was what happened with justino, we were walking and he actually stopped us in the street which never happens unless their drunk and asked us what time our church was and that hes always been interested with the mormon church. He is 50 years old and was a priest for the catholic church but things happened and he knows it isnt true and is looking for a new path to his life. He says hes passed our church many times and always feels like he should enter but just never does. SO hopefully Elder Chacon can get them in the water. We also made great progrss with the familia Preciado and their daughter is doing all the young women activities so that is sweet.

This week we have been sharing with the members a Mormon Message by James B Wirthlin that's called "The Sunday Will Come" and it is way sweet. It talks about the Friday that Christ was crucified was just such a dreary and dark day but that following Sunday when he resurrected was just the opposite and so beautiful. And he just relates it to our life how were going to have lots of those Fridays and it's going to be tough but always, always, always, always, the Sunday will come and what a marvelous day that will be. It's the same with the mission. When we arrived here it was bad, and we had one investigator that we dropped after the first lesson. The first 6 weeks we never had an investigator in church but little by little that changed and now this area is actually a pretty good area.

This week has been CARNIVAL haha and they go flat our nuts. Everybody is going crazy and is dressed up and dancing. Im going to miss this place, its been a really fun city and is flat our beautiful and is the happening plave.

That's about it family, I'm so glad to hear that union won and hopefully they can get a playoff game and that's crazy that people are getting mission calls, that's way sweet and I'm way proud of Cody. Love you guys and pray that I go to a sweet area.

 Carnival

 Emelio's baptism

 Saying goodbye

 Passing on the "tie of authority!"