Week 28 - Great week

Welp....

Love you all sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much!

This week was pretty great for me.

We started out the week doing some exchanges. I was over with our District Leader Elder Huld (Also from Washington) in his area. I learned some good stuff. He also taught me that we can still have some fun here. First, while I was showering, he dumped a bucket of cold water in my shower. Haha The water from the shower was cold anyways so it wasn’t really any different. Then, while I was in the bathroom, he threw in a “stink bomb” that he bought from a small store here. It exploded and smelled really bad. haha. It was pretty unexpected. 

We also had a Multi-Zone Conference this week with the Mission President. We learned a lot about how we can be more loving and how we can work with the members. We did a small practice at that conference with some real members that some of the missionaries had brought. We were given the task to teach a heavy smoker the word of wisdom. This lady that we had did not go easy on us at all. She gave us every challenge she could throw at us. At one point she told me, “Then what you’re telling me is that all I have to do is quit smoking today and I will never have those temptations again?” I felt prompted to tell her this, “As representatives of our Savior Jesus Christ, We PROMISE you that you will never have this temptation again.”(Pretty bold words that came out of my mouth) She then began to cry and stopped the practice. She told us, “Twenty years ago, I was in the same situation as this practice, and I can bear my testimony that the day I started living the Word of Wisdom, I never once had a temptation.” Pretty powerful Spirit that we all felt.

The conference got us super pumped up and we decided to set out on Saturday to work really hard. In the morning I prayed very specifically that we would be able to teach 12 lessons in that day. 12 lessons is quite a few for one day of missionary work considering we’re on foot too! Well, we worked hard and ran a few times, but at 8:59 at night we arrived home having completed 12 lessons. I know that if we pray with faith and with the intention to work as hard as we can on our own part, God will provide the way to accomplish even seemingly impossible tasks.

We also had a great Sunday! We went to church and had 7 investigators! The best we’ve had here in this ward. It’s still not very many, but it’s an improvement! Thanks for all the prayers. We also had a great Ward Council. Normally these meetings are a wreck, but this week we took control of the situation and taught directly out of the 2014 Mexico Area Plan to try and reorganize the way we conduct these meetings. It actually worked really well and I think that this will make  us much more efficient in this aspect of the work.

Today was P'day! Today we climbed this super tall hill with all of the District! It was super fun and then we went to a Chinese Buffet. For some reason, the Mexicans are obsessed with Chinese food. I almost ate an octopus tentacle, but then I thought.... better not.... If you want to see pictures, you can probably stalk the blogs of Sister Lance and Elder Ivings. We took some sweet pictures, but I didn’t bring my camera.

Anyways, that’s basically all of it this week.

I have come to gain a very powerful testimony of prayer. It’s the way that we can literally COMMUNICATE with our Father. He loves us and wants to bless us. if we are obedient, pray, and have faith, he will provide us with all we need! 

Love you all so much! Look for the people around you that need the Gospel and invite them to learn more! You might be the only person in this world that can help them return to live with their Father in Heaven and families! 

Love,

Elder Morgan