Our sweetest friends the Cano family that stayed with us over conference surprised Joshuah with a birthday party gifts and all!!! We love them so much and feel so blessed to have them a part of our lives now.
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This week was filled with lots of traveling. The weather has been perfect!! This is the week of transfers so we´ll see who my new comp is next week.
On Monday we left for Hermosillo. Monday night we had a great family home evening with President. After that we had a good ping pong tourney in the assistants house. Then in the morning we got up to be able to play some ball in before the meeting. The meeting was really good. The focus was how we can change the culture of our mission to become more obedient and work harder as missionaries. Then on Friday we had our zone conference with our zone. It went really well the the spirit was really strong. I´m loving every second right of my mission right now. There are still hard times but It´s so worth it. I love you all!!! Letter from mom.... Hi sweet boy!
We were so excited to get the great video of you on Sunday morning. The Cano's surprised us with it. They are a great family!!!! I hope that you get in there area in Hermosillo before you come home. I told them maybe it will be your last area. The other families that were here were amazing also, the Barron's and Fausto's family. Beautiful people. I am going to send you pics. They got here on Thursday night. We had Ice cream waiting for them and they loved it!! The next morning they went into the Salt Lake Temple and the teenagers did baptisms and the adults did a session. I watched the little kids here at the house. We all went in after they were finished and met them at temple square and took pictures. That night they cooked us Carne something (hahahaha I can't remember the name) It was so yummy!!!! They BBQ ed the meat and they made homemade tortillas, and a lot of yummy salsas. I can see why you love the food so much!!! The next day they went to park city to see snow and had a snow ball fight and made a snow man. Then the men went to Priesthood session at the conference center and the women walked around temple square. They got up the next morning and went to the morning session, and then back to our house for dinner. They left Sunday afternoon. It was so fun to get to know them. Hudson and their youngest daughter Pamela totally hit it off. They couldn't communicate, but they wold do charades and had so much fun together. She loved Oscar and she and Hudson wold fight over him. They would sit and say "mine" over and over again!!! They brought Hudson Jenga and the 2 of them played it non-stop. Nat and court loved their oldest son Mauren. He is the sweetest thing. They played games and laughed. I loved the sounds that came from our home- so much Joy and laughter, and a lot spanglish-hahahaha. We are all doing great!!! We have 6 months until you come home. We have set some goals as a family to achieve before you get home. The big one is to read the book of Mormon together before you get home. I love you sweet boy! Mom Hey. So I don't have a lot of time to write this week. I'm passing through Cananea right now on my way to Hermosillo for a meeting. We had a good week. Nothing too eventful has happened. Just lots of exchanges with other missionaries. I now have six months left. Crazy. I loved general conference. I loved President Monson's talks, even though they were really short. I liked that he talked about decisions and the importance they have in our lives. Also, too help us make decisions he said "Remember who you are and what God expects you to become. You are a child of promise. You are a man of might. You are a son of God." I love this gospel and the fact that we have a living prophet to guide us. I'm glad you had such a fun weekend with some families from my mission. Much more of that to come:) Love you!!!!
This week went by SO fast!! On Tuesday we went to a mining town an hour away from Agua Prieta to do exchanges with the elders there. We had a great time with lots of work and the house flooding in the night. We returned on Wednesday and were able to work hard until Friday and then I went to Hermosillo to go to a baptism. Do remember the Family Morioki? Well they got baptized and they invited me to come down and perform the ordinance. It was so great to be able to see them all again and my kid Rodriguez. It was such an amazing experience. Then on Sunday we had a few super golden investigators in church so we should have some baptisms for the 16 of April:) I had such an amazing Easter weekend. I'm so thankful for my Savior and everything that he did for me. The gospel is truly about losing yourself in the will of the Lord which is serving others. Love you!!!
This has been a great week!! I'm super sun burnt and tired. We're working really hard. This week we had a great zone conference with President. In the end he had me and Stephenson share a moment in our mission when we had been really discouraged, but had overcame it. I shared a time in my training when I had received an email that really distracted me from the work. I couldn't stop thinking about that whole night and when I woke up the next morning I really didn't want to work. But, I knew I had a decision to make. That was either going to be a great day or it was going to be a very long day. It was up to me. I decided to make it a great day by forgetting myself and going to work. I've found that is the best medicine for homesickness. It's time tested. And at this point in the mission we're working so much that I don't have time to think about home. Now my only problem is how fast this is coming to an end. I love the change that I see in the people we teach but what has surprised me is the change that I've seen in myself. I never thought I'd get to this point. I've realized that TRUE CHANGE ONLY COMES THROUGH THE ATONEMENT OF JESUS CHRIST. There are a lot of great self improvement programs out there, but those are only temporary changes. To be truly changed we have to apply the atonement in our lives. Love you!!!
This week has been amazing. Agua Prieta is great! It's a border town so there's a lot of American things and lots of the people speak English. My comp elder Stephenson is from American Fork and he has 19 months in the mission. He's really cool and we get along really well. He loves basketball so we've been waking up at 5 every morning to run to the church and play basketball. We have a few really awesome investigators that want to be baptized. We have a couple named Alvaro y Rosario. Rosario has known the church for 3 years and now she wants to be baptized. Her husband also wants to be baptized but he's not sure when, but we're working with them. We also have a funny family. Theres Ray, Samuel, y Bicente. Bicente is the dad of Samuel and Ray is the brother of Bicente. Bicente is a musician and he plays like 6 instruments so whenever we go with them he and I jam:) The first time we went he busted out "I have sunshine in my soul today" on the piano so I think we've found the new branch pianist. We also are teaching a young man named Diego. He's been going to church for 2 years but hasn't gotten baptized because he's not married to his girlfriend. They're living together but they don't want to get married because they don't like each other anymore. He can't leave her because she wouldn't have anywhere to go. We did a special fast with him this Sunday to find a way for him to get baptized. Today we're heading to Hermosillo for a meeting and we'll get back tomorrow night. Everything is going great here:) I love you!!!
TRANSFERS. So I'm heading up to Agua Prieta this transfer. That's why I'm writing so early right now. I'm in the mission offices. My bus leaves at 12 and I should get up there around 6. So, this week was great:) We were so close to baptizing on Saturday but it turns out that they aren't married so they're going to get baptized in like 2 weeks. So I'm not going to be there for it but Rodriguez will.
So I'm heading to Agua Prieta and I'll be with Elder Stephenson. I don't know him yet but It should be really fun. Well I don't have more time to write today. But I love you all and I'll see you soon!!! This week was great!! We're now in the last week of the transfer. I"m sad because one of us is leaving. These have been a really fun two transfers with Elder Rodriguez.
Well the highlight of the week was definitely the baptism of Ramsses. We had a great turnout with most of the youth in the ward coming and a lot of the family of Ramsses as well. The service was great and he shared his testimony after and it was SUPER powerful. He's totally serving a mission. Later that night we had an awesome family home evening with a couple of families both active and less active. It was a huge success! I'm studying the new testament right now and this week I read something that I really liked. It was: 2 Cor 12:9-10. 9 And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. 10 Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong. I love it!!! Every challenge we face is an opportunity to respond by applying the teachings of Christ in our lives. The whole purpose of this life is CHANGE. Change to become more like Christ. His strength is made perfect in weakness. For when I am weak, then I am STRONG. |
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