This week has been crazy!! I will try
to remember it all. This past Wednesday, Elder Estrada was really sick.
He was saying that his entire body was hurting. So Wednesday we just
stayed inside all day...and it was soooo boring!! I have never been so
bored in my life hah. So I just studied and read scriptures for most of
the day. And usually we eat at members houses, but we couldnt leave the
house. So the member family brought us food to our house. They bought us
a chicken with some tortillas and a large drink. But the moment that we
opened the container that had the chicken, oh man it smelt soooo bad!!
We checked it out and it was so rotten haha. We didn't eat any of it.
We threw it out in our back yard and some cats enjoyed it. So we ordered
pizza instead. It was pretty good actually! The pizza place is called
Mario Bros. Pizza. Which is awesome haha! I'm sending a picture of the
fridge magnet that came with the pizza lol.
This past Saturday
we had a baptism!! And because the church is being renovated right now,
we had the baptism on the beach!! It was so cool!! As missionaries we
are generally not allowed to go to the beach. But for baptisms, yes! So I
took a good amount of photos and I will try to send them all! The man
we baptized is 94 years old!! His name is Felipe Campos. He is so
awesome! I'm so happy that he decided to get baptized! He has a
wonderful testimony of he gospel! His example shows that anyone can
change! No matter how old you are, or how out of reach you feel, you can
always return to the right path with our Heavenly Father's help!!
My
spanish is coming along really well. It helps when I have a spanish
speaking companion! I really like it here in Playa del Carmen. Its
beautiful and the members here are awesome!! They have a ton of food for
us always. I actually think I'm starting to gain a bit of weight
now...yikes!! I hope not!
The way that we contact people is a
bit different here in Mexico. We don't go around knocking on doors
unless there is a specific person that we are looking for. Like a
reference from a member or something. And right now we have a few so we
are searching for their houses. There are always people walking in the
street so we just talk to everyone. This is how we do most of our
contacting. Its good. However, the majority of our sucess(in terms of
baptisms) comes from references from the members. All of my baptisms
that I have(which is now 6) have been references. But thats great, as
long as the work is progressing, I'm happy!! There are a lot of less
active members too. So we spend a lot of our time trying to re-activate
them too. This is something really important. President Hinckley said
that missionary work is not worth doing if we don't hold on to the
fruits of that effort. We have a responsibility of members of the church
to share the gospel with everyone and to help thos that are in need.
Especially our brothers and sisters who have fallen off the path. We can
help them in many ways! One of the most important of these ways is
setting a good example for them. How we need to be strong faithful
members of the church. And to look for ways to share our joy of living
the gospel with those that need it!
I love you all so much!! Keep writing and sending prayers!!
Love,
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