June 29, 2015

Family!!!!!

HAHA sorry i couldnt write last week, we went to Zacatlan which is like the coolest area in the mission and the farthest area in the mission to visit some of my comps converts. We left at three in the morning and didn't get home till way late so im sorry but hey, here i am so that is all good.

So you guys know this but we ended up closing area because they combined our zone and another zone because our mission is lowering a lot of numbers so i was actually pretty stoked the only bad thing was leaving Enrique and Gaby but i know they will be strong in the gospel and im so grateful i got to know them and help them come into this happiness. 

So right now I am still Zone leader in la libertad norte. I actually just crossed the street to get here from las fuentes my last area hahahha so i moved from La paz stake to La libertad, this is my third time in this same stake haha La libertad is my home. Our area is super weird, it is unlike any area ive had, all our area is is about 200 apartment buildings that are exactly the same and dirt roads.  I was a little bummed when i saw my name on Tuesday going here because i actually got to go on divisions here when i was a youngin and this area hasn't had a baptism in 14 months but my whole attitude has changed after this week. This week was actually the best week of my misison teaching lessons to investigators so im super stoked. My companion is Estrade and he is from Guatemala and is actually the one Latino that got here when i got here. Hes super sweet and we get a long great.

We put two baptismal dates this week, one is for a woman named Victoria, who is super sweet and we found her through a member. She is about 50 years old and still single and just has a desire to change. She took off work yesterday to come to church and loved it. She has a date for the 8 of August. hen we found an amazing family this week two and taught them Wednesday, Thursday and Friday and put a date with the mom and everything was just beautiful but then on Friday her brother (a catholic Priest) came to the lesson and i made the worst mistake of my life and i asked him a question and it just went downhill from there. Needless to say they canceled our lesson on Saturday and didn't come to church yesterday because Satan brother is crazy but hey, we have a lesson with them today so we will see what happens. 

This area is chuck full of CRAZYS!!!!! haha ive had more weird experiences this week than i have had my whole life. First off everybody here for some reason thinks we can interpret there dreams, so the first few we would tell them that we don't have that power to do that but then we received revelation (i think) to just tell them that there dream means they need to get baptized, so far it hasn't worked but its funny haha. Also yesterday we went and visited some members and they had a friend over who is christian so we taught her, and i could tell from the start she was a little weird because she just kept talking about the gift of tongues and other weird stuff. So we ended the lesson and then she told us that she felt impressed that she should pray for just me! hahaha so were like go for it and then she got up and started walking around and praying and then she came up behind me and started giving me a back message and seriously prayed for me for 5 minutes, no joke about how i was haunted as a child and had lots of bad experiences but that these demons don't need to haunt me anymore. It was seriously so weird and was so hard not to laugh but the bright side is that i was really in need of a shoulder massage so I'll take.it.

Yesterday we had a sweet class in priesthood about the talk (is it still wonderful to you) in the last general conference. it starts off by telling a story of a family that lived in France and would always visit historical sites far away but then they had to move and realized they never even visited the Eiffel tower. It relates it to the gospel about many times we forget the great blessings in our lives. We forgot how important the scriptures and prayer and the great blessing to participate in the sacrament each week, because many times these things just become a routine. Sometimes i feel like that on the mission that some days are just a routine but really i hope i can get to the point where everyday is like the first day of my mission and that we always remember the great blessings we have in our life. 

So president nelson will arrive here tomorrow night and president Christensen will leave early Wednesday. Its going to be a weird change and a little hard for the mission. We will have a conference with Pres nelson on Thursday and then our Zone leader meeting with him on Friday so i should know him pretty decent by the end of this week. Im so grateful for president, in the changes he always talks and said that when president Eyring set him apart in his blessing he said that every missionary and the president was called to work together for a specific reason because they need each other, or something to learn. I know that's so true and am so grateful for him and hermana christensen. They have truly affected my life for the better. 

Thats about it family, life is so good and i love where were at and i love being a misisonary. Have a great week. Love you!!!!