Monday, February 29, 2016

Hey my wonderful family. So we had our usual meeting on Wednesday to do our changes and when we started, President told us that one of the Elders in our mission was probably going to be reassigned missions due to his physical conditions here in Mexico. So that meant that there was no more need for 3 assistants so President let us decide if I should stay with E Evans alone or if we should call a new Latin assistant. We thought it was best if we called a new one that way E Evans could be with him 2 changes, training him because in about 2 changes our whole mission boundaries and all the stakes here are going to get changed up and we may lose some Missionaries and gain some also, so needless to say it it going to be  a super big challenge so we didn't want two very new assistants when that happened.

So needless to say I am going out to the field for my last two changes and im SOOOOOO STOKED!!!!! I don't know if you remember that one day that I didnt write like a year ago because we went to visit one of E. Insaurraldes areas, that is where i am going. Zacaclan is the farthest area away in the mission and probably the most beautiful. Its the area with caves and waterfalls and that cool kinds of stuff. It is also the biggest area in the mission haha I have some towns in my area that are 5 hours away from Zacatlan City. So the mission has its own 3 branches here where President Nelson is in charge of them, Zacatlan is one, E Page is going to be my neighbor in a Branch called Chignahuapan and were sending a very good ex zone leader to the other branch to try to get them going cause there is not much that has happened out there. Its going to be weird getting out of the city of Puebla because I have been in this same part basically for a year strait. My new companion will be E. Cruz, I will just be a normal senior companion, so im pretty excited. E. Cruz is from Bolivia and has 4 months in the mission. He is a little guy and it will be a difference going from E. Page to him. Im so excited to see what happens and to just work. Now its time to put to practice what I have learned and go and work to get something happening out there. 

I feel very blessed to have had the chance to be an Assistant and to work very closely with President. It truly was a privileged and I have learned so much about leading by example, phone calls, training missionaries,giving correction and the list goes on and on. President and Sister Nelson took us all out to dinner on Friday to a sweet fish restaurant and gave us who are leaving some sweet ties and even told E. Page and myself that they would love to have us as son in laws IF they had daughters our age, but they told us we could wait 15 years for there granddaughters to grow up hahaha. I thought that was a pretty good compliment. Ill miss the offices and miss working with President.

Me and E Page feel very good about what we have done here, last night we got all the numbers done for the month of February and our mission baptized more this month than we have since we have gotten here. When we got here each companionship was baptizing .09 people each week and now were baptizing .16 people each week which is almost double. The mission is turning around and is starting to change the culture and the missionaries are starting to realized that we are here to baptize!

We have received miracles in this area. We had 6 baptisms here in 3 changes and we should have 8 baptisms this next change. We had 8 Inv. show up to church again yesterday. Miguel Angel and his family came to a baptism this weekend of a different area and came to church and are doing just great. We are working with Sylvio to stop drinking. And our atheist is believing more and more in God each day. Josue (the kid of the less active family) has a date for next week and his family is loving the church and inviting there neighbors and the mom has invited one of her friend to listen who is just golden and already has attended the church twice. We said bye to Celsy and Marcela and Liam and Carlos yesterday. We have no doubts they will stay strong in the gospel and will go to the temple. Its been a good area.

So E. Page has gotten so sick this week. Were pretty sure he got food poisoning or something from something down here because he has been in the bathroom all week and has lost 15 pounds this week. 

Im still peeling from my sweet sunburn that I got this past week and we ended up banning going up this Volcano because its kinda dangerous. Tomorrow is when all the changes go down and the elders and sisters will be going from one area directly to the other. SO say an extra prayer that we dont lose anyone haha. 


Thats about if Fam. I am soo excited to go and work tomorrow. I know it will be a process and will be a little slow at first but I have no doubts that we cant get it going. Im so blessed to be a missionary and to work in this wonderful work.
 The volcano hike!


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