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| The seminary in Culiacan! |
Hey family, Thanks for the pictures! Looks like you all had a great time, the cousins and everyone look great! Parker and Slater both look a lot older. I also got the pictures from mckell. The trip looks awesome! Now i´m the only one in the family who hasn´t been to Europe.. Oh well, Mexico es mejor! There are quite a few people here that are super in to the olympics. I hope the U.S. does well but that everything stays peaceful between Mexico and the U.S.
Well i had a pretty amazing week. We were in Culiacan ALL
WEEK! We stayed in a house with 6 other missionaries and had a fabulous
time. We had the same schedule every day. From 9 to 12 we listened to
Pres. Cantu talk about los milagros, from 12 to 5 we did divisions in
the area of the Elders we stayed with and worked in their area, and from
5 to 8 we listened more about how to find miracles! It was a pretty
awesome week. It was super hot and rainy in Culiacan but it didn´t stop
us from working. Every day we left the conference super excited to work
and search for the escogidos.
We covered a lot of information in the conference so
i´m just going to tell you a few of the things that i like most. First
of all we talked about the obvious and crucial need of teaching with the
spirit. The scripture i like most is D&C 50: 13-18. It says that if
we try to teach in any other way, we aren´t teaching in the way of the
Lord. There´s a lot of other ways that missionaries can try to teach. A
lot of missionaries know a ton about the gospel and know a ton of
scriptures. It´s great to have a lot of knowledge, but there are a lot
of people who relly on their own knowledge and persuasive words than
listening and teaching by the spirit.
We also talked about how we are all ¨"chosen ones"
and that we´ve been taught and prepared to do the work of the Lord since
the preexistence. Every one of us has a potencial that we can fulfill
and multiple spirtual gifts but in order to recieve everything we need
to be perfectly obedient. If we don´t obey, we have no promise. We
talked a lot about how every one of us has a lot of things that we could
change to be better missionaries or better people in general, but we´re
never going to make the changes if we don´t act. We´re here in the
mission and in life to act, not be acted upon. That goes for us as
missionaries, for the members, and for our investigadors. If we´re going
to act, first of all we need to have the desire. We talked about how
our investigadors need to have the desire if they´re going to change and
how we can give them the desire by using inspired questions.
President Cantu is amazing. I know that he is the
only mission president that can give me the guidance that i need to meet
my potential as a missionary and that he´s called of God. Pres. Cantu
has a different way of communicating himself. He talkes really direct,
and word he says is full of power and it makes you feel the spirit. Well
i hope you all have a wonderful week!! I´ll be praying for you all.
Love Elder Mecham
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