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| Landon and cute little turtles!! |
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| Cute yummy little turtles! |
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| A papaya tree in front of the bishop's house! |
This week was pretty decent. I hope it was great for all of you. First of all, it´s still incredibly hot in Culiacan, but i´m still feeling the Christmas spirit thanks to Marcies Christmas lights! Thanks Aunt marci. We have been enjoying the sun and doing a lot of searching this week. We had very few investigadors in the begginning of the week, and after a lot dilligence, we have more! We did a lot of street contacting and asking members for references. We´ve had a huge problem here, and it´s that we have a ton of directions of people from references from the members, street contacts, etc.. But when we arrive to the house, there's nobody! It happens ALL day EVERY day. Every hour of they day we put 4 plans, and usually we end up going with all four, finding nobody. However, we were still able to have success.
We had a great experience on Wednesday. A member was
going with us to contact a reference that she had given us, her friend
was busy and jehovas witness so she sent us off, but on the way back to
the house of the sister, we contacted a women sitting on a bench. Her
name is O. At first she was giving us excuses, saying she didn't
have time to talk. I thought she was going to be like the majority of
contacts and tell us she believes in the virgen and doesn't want to
change. We quickly shared with her about the restoration. I testified,
my companion testified, and the sister that was with us testified. After
about 5 minutes she ended up giving us her address and we invited her
to church. We weren't able to find her after that but it turned our on
Sunday she went to church!! And she brought her 2 daughters that are
also old enough to get baptised! We haven't even taught her yet but she
has a lot of potential. Our mision has been talking a lot lately about
the class of investigadors that we're baptising. Lots of times, people
get baptised who really shouldn't get baptised. We need to search for
people who can be future leaders, people who are self relient, and are
repented.
Our testimony meeting yesterday was super powerful. I
couldn't believe how many members got up to bear their testimonies, and
their testimonies were all perfect, brief, yet powerful. A recently
baptised family that has really impressed me shared their testimonies
and i couldn't believe how strong they were after only 2 months as
members. It's a young couple with about 4 little kids, 2 of which are
already members, but they all gave their testimonies. Even their kid
that's only 6 years old, and he did it alone! I can't even describe how
much i'd love to find a family like that. I know God blesses us
according to our desires we obey him, and have faith. My companion and i
have been praying a lot to find a family and i actually think that Hna
O is an answer to our prayers.
I'd say one of the best parts of the week was last
night at 6. We went to the Christmas devotional!! It was incredible, i
especially loved President Monsons talk. We were only going to go if we
brought investigadors but we hadn't invited anyone. At about 530 we went
with a young couple that we've been teaching, invited them, and we
went!! They brought their 2 kids, a 1 year old baby and a 5 year old
girl. They were incredibly rebelious during the devotional, but it was
all great!
Thanks mom for sending the package to Elder Aleman.
He'll really appreciate it. I'm going find out if it'll even be possible
to skype for christmas, but the rule is that we have to do it in the
house of a member, and that could be hard. Also, i really don't trust
the computers or internet connections of the members. It's a little
different here than in our house. It could turn out really bad, but i'll
look into it. I love you all and hope you have a wonderful Christmas
season! Elder Mecham
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