Hola! Hola!
Between Halloween and the Day of the Dead, this last week was crazy out here in Mexico ha! It's way cool to have this opportunity to experience a different culture first hand. This week, Elder Cruz and I were talking with an older gentlemen and he invited us into his house to show us his collection of Bibles and pamphlets he has collected over the years from Mormon missionaries, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and a couple of other religions. As he was showing us his collection, I noticed that his house didn’t really have much of a roof, and the floors were dirt, but this man was still so happy. I’ve had a couple of other experiences like this over the last couple of weeks, and it has truly been so humbling.
Last week, I was planning on giving a little update on some of our investigators. However, I didn’t have very much time, and to be honest, it's kind of confusing because we are teaching at least ten different Juans and one Juanita!! lol Anyway, all of the Juans are doing good. One of our investigators that is not named Juan, Izabella, has been progressing so much as we have taught her over the past two or three weeks. She is about fifty or so, and the first time we met with her we taught her how to pray. Every time we meet with her, she says the closing prayer, and she gets more and more comfortable addressing our Heavenly Father every time. It has been a great experience to be able to watch her progress over these last couple of weeks. She really wants to come to church. However, she works on Sundays. She has been trying to get her schedule switched around, so hopefully she´ll be able to come to church soon so she can continue to progress!
On Friday, Elder Cruz and I went with the zone leaders, Elder Wells (from Orem, Utah) and Elder Pedro (from Cali) to go help the Elders in San Buena. In this area, there is only a small branch and it has been struggling, so Elder Ramirez (from Colombia) set up a contacting activity with the members in a park in the center of town. We set up some tables in the middle of the park with tons of pamphlets and Books of Mormon, and we had a projector playing “Meet the Mormons”. Then we all split up around the park and worked with the members. After we talked with people, we brought them to the center of the park over to Elder Ramirez where he gave them a pamphlet and wrote down their information so he could come and visit them. It was a really cool activity; hopefully we were able to help out this branch. The members were so grateful that we came and helped them out. One of the members I worked with had served a mission in Argentina, and I was talking to him about it, and we are pretty sure he served with Elder Tyler Wall (one of my good friend’s older brothers)!
This morning, I pulled out the missionary book of Gainz... Between all of my bands and dumbbells and pull-up bar, I was able to do one of Cory G’s “Get Stacked” workouts! So I’m basically back at Gold’s gym haha. If you don’t know who Cory G is, then you should definitely look him up if you want some Gainz! Because he is the man! and he’s tight with Arnold.
The surgeon (me) hasn’t really done much the last two weeks, but the word has gotten out within the mission. So I have a bunch of Elders that want me to work on their ties. Besides the usual tie-slimming though, I have a new project or "surgery" coming up in the next couple of months lol, so stay tuned!
As always,
Much love - Elder Ceb
(From Karsten’s mom…in my email he said he was feeling a lot better. He got on an antibiotic and it cleared up whatever he had. Thanks everyone that was praying for him.)
The activity in San Buena
Missionary Book of Gainz
Halloween
Sams Club!
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