What a
busy week haha!
On Monday afternoon, we
went to Saltillo to take all of the new missionaries out to do some contacting!
I got to work with an Elder from Idaho. We had a good time and found some
really dope people! We hooked the APs up with some baptisms for sure!
Tuesday morning, we had a
training conference for the trainers and then another conference with everyone
together! Then President assigned us to the Elders that we would be training!
My son is from Ecuador and his name is Elder Vasquez. He is a super cool guy! He always calls me ‘Padre’ which makes me remember
the college days when everyone called me Dad haha!
During the rest of the week
my comp and I got grinding super hard. We are white- washing here since we are
both new to the area. We have been using the ward list a ton though and we high-key
found like 20 people that can be baptized in these upcoming weeks!
I had some really dope
experiences this week. On Friday night, we had been walking around trying to
find the people and we were not having much success... then as we were heading
to the house I had a really strong prompting to knock at this house on our
street. A lady opened the door and we walked right in the house, like straight
up she just told us to come in... Turns out her husband is an inactive member,
and her sister is also a member who is actually super-active here in our ward!
We had a super spiritual lesson, and she opened right up to us and told us
about her experiences in church and what not, and the Spirit was super
strong! Later, on Sunday, I told her sister that we had visited her, and
she told us that she was actually just about to give us the reference to go
visit her. It is crazy how fast the references come from the Spirit haha. The
same thing happened to us a couple of weeks ago in my old area!
We also had a really dope
lesson on Saturday night too. We went to go teach the friend of a recent
convert, and it was our first time teaching him, so we decided to give a quick
introduction to the Book of Mormon, and then read 3 Nephi 11! So after I
described all the pictures in the front of the Book of Mormon and like the
story line and what not, I started to talk about some of the prophets in the Book
of Mormon, and some of the time line it was written in. Then we read verse by
verse as I described everything to them! Like in verse two, it talks about some
signs leading up to the coming of Christ. So then we read Helaman 14: 20-27 where Samuel
the Lamanite testified about the signs, and then we read about some of the
things that happened in 3 Nephi 10 before Christ came. Then when we got to
verse 8 where it describes how Christ came unto them, we read 1 Nephi 12:6 and
2 Nephi 26:1 and described how the prophet Nephi saw a vison of Christ, coming
unto his posterity over 600 years into the future. Then after we read verse 12,
we read Alma 16:20 and we kept talking about some other prophecies and prophets
as we read on! When we finished up the chapter, I explained how Christ had just
given his first words unto these people, and He invited them all to be baptized
11 times, and I was like… I know this is our first time teaching you, but
baptism is way important! We invited him
to pray about his baptism, and so we finna dunk him soon! Honestly though, the Spirit
was so strong during that lesson!! I
learned so much!
Tons of more stuff I wanna
say, but I’m high-key out of time, so until next week,
Much love,
Elder Ceb
1. With my son Elder Vasquez!
2. We bought these hats for the gift exchange at the Christmas party
3.
Just some day one Saltillo
boys chillin
4.
Love this kid haha he
misses me so much cause I’m not in his area anymore...
5.
Christmas is coming
soon
6.
Dad
