Hey Family!
So this past week was super busy!! We had so much stuff to do through the whole week. We taught like 20 lessons. it was intense! We went to the mormon batallion twice too. it was way good. We went with Aurora and her 4 kids and at first we weren't sure how to get them a ride there. but we ended up taking our ward mission leader's bus! Oh, it was so funny because its pretty old and beat up. but it was something and it helped us get them there. They enjoyed it alot too, but they are still trying to find their answer whether this is something they need to do and so we have an appointment with them today and so we shall see how they are doing.
Then just yesterday we went to the mormon batallion with Ricardo and Flor who are gonna be baptized on the 10th. They are solid, but it was funny because the last week, we couldn't get a hold of them practically the whole week and they didn't come to church so we thought oh dang, something happened and now they don't want to do it anymore. Come to find out though that they were just on a trip, so they just came back sunday night and yesterday they called us up and asked us if we could go to the Mobat and so we were stoked and it went way well. They loved it and afterwards we stopped by the temple and had a super good lesson about the temple and how families can be together forever. They are super stoked to keep going, be baptized and then enter into the temple.
Then we had a good lesson with eduardo and well the last time we left the restauracion dvd about joseph smith and he watched it and told us that he felt the spirit and believes the story and thinks its all true. So we talked about baptism and we set a date for the 17th this month. so he's doing way good too, and we planned an activity to watch the testaments at a members house. which turned out super good! he loved it, so h'es doing really good too.
Funny story - so we went to go set up the projector for the movie at the member's house and it's the brother who loves surfing and so when we walk in, his screen saver from his labtop was projected on the wall and it was this super sweet point break in mexico and it was such a nice right! haha and he starts telling the story of how they found it and it was pretty intense and funny too. i was just standing there "thinking you got to be kidding me!"trunky moment right there.. haha nah just kidding.
So ok another story - well we passed by Quirino and natalia and we went to the church to have a lesson about the plan of salvation, which turned out good, it helped them alot to understand why they are here and we ended up setting a date for the 24th this month for their baptism! So tons of people following Jesus Christ this month!!!! and we just met with them again yesterday and they asked us "so what do we need to do now to prepare us to be baptized?" ding ding ding the magic question! So we explained it more and they are willing and excited - so there we go!
Funny story - so we were talking to people and we met this one girl she was kinda gangsta. so she was talking like she was from the hood. no joke after everything we said or question we asked she was ask us "what is it?" to mean "what?". so we asked something like "oh so whats your name?" and she would say "what is it?" it was just funny. so i thought man we should just tell her the word baptism or God so she asks what is it and then boom oh well thats a good question let us explain to you who God is.. haha and just explain everything to her.
So anyways we had a lot of good stuff happen this past week, alot of the people we are teaching are really progressing and so no complaints here. But i think with everything that has happened we learned alot about patience this past week. How it really is key to be patient no matter what because things happen not always the way we planned it and it might take longer then expected, but if we are patient and not only just waiting until the time comes but enjoying and doing all we can, working hard and being optomistic in the between time, we can see miracles. Thats what we saw last week, just a ton of people keeping commitments and really preparing to be baptized. Even though our situation could give us all reason to complain and be angry and stressed out, we can choose to turn it around and make it a good thing.
So yeah a ton of good things happening i'll keep you guys updated and everything so you know whats happening!
Love you!
Elder Thomas
Then just yesterday we went to the mormon batallion with Ricardo and Flor who are gonna be baptized on the 10th. They are solid, but it was funny because the last week, we couldn't get a hold of them practically the whole week and they didn't come to church so we thought oh dang, something happened and now they don't want to do it anymore. Come to find out though that they were just on a trip, so they just came back sunday night and yesterday they called us up and asked us if we could go to the Mobat and so we were stoked and it went way well. They loved it and afterwards we stopped by the temple and had a super good lesson about the temple and how families can be together forever. They are super stoked to keep going, be baptized and then enter into the temple.
Then we had a good lesson with eduardo and well the last time we left the restauracion dvd about joseph smith and he watched it and told us that he felt the spirit and believes the story and thinks its all true. So we talked about baptism and we set a date for the 17th this month. so he's doing way good too, and we planned an activity to watch the testaments at a members house. which turned out super good! he loved it, so h'es doing really good too.
Funny story - so we went to go set up the projector for the movie at the member's house and it's the brother who loves surfing and so when we walk in, his screen saver from his labtop was projected on the wall and it was this super sweet point break in mexico and it was such a nice right! haha and he starts telling the story of how they found it and it was pretty intense and funny too. i was just standing there "thinking you got to be kidding me!"trunky moment right there.. haha nah just kidding.
So ok another story - well we passed by Quirino and natalia and we went to the church to have a lesson about the plan of salvation, which turned out good, it helped them alot to understand why they are here and we ended up setting a date for the 24th this month for their baptism! So tons of people following Jesus Christ this month!!!! and we just met with them again yesterday and they asked us "so what do we need to do now to prepare us to be baptized?" ding ding ding the magic question! So we explained it more and they are willing and excited - so there we go!
Funny story - so we were talking to people and we met this one girl she was kinda gangsta. so she was talking like she was from the hood. no joke after everything we said or question we asked she was ask us "what is it?" to mean "what?". so we asked something like "oh so whats your name?" and she would say "what is it?" it was just funny. so i thought man we should just tell her the word baptism or God so she asks what is it and then boom oh well thats a good question let us explain to you who God is.. haha and just explain everything to her.
So anyways we had a lot of good stuff happen this past week, alot of the people we are teaching are really progressing and so no complaints here. But i think with everything that has happened we learned alot about patience this past week. How it really is key to be patient no matter what because things happen not always the way we planned it and it might take longer then expected, but if we are patient and not only just waiting until the time comes but enjoying and doing all we can, working hard and being optomistic in the between time, we can see miracles. Thats what we saw last week, just a ton of people keeping commitments and really preparing to be baptized. Even though our situation could give us all reason to complain and be angry and stressed out, we can choose to turn it around and make it a good thing.
So yeah a ton of good things happening i'll keep you guys updated and everything so you know whats happening!
Love you!
Elder Thomas
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