First off, I would like to
congratulate all of the fathers in ALL of the world!! Happy Father's
Day!! Especially my fathers in my life!! My dad, Ron Strate, has
impacted my life in so many wonderful ways! Every since my life
started(well here in the earth that is) He has been an amazing father.
Always there for me in the good times and the bad. Always been an
amazing example to me of how a father should be. Loving and caring for
his family, teaching gospel principles to his children, and most
importantly presiding as a patriarch in our home and raising us in
righteousness. Also thanks to my Grandfathers, Rick Strate, and Ed
French. Also, two marvelous examples to me in how they live and love
their families!! I love them all sooooooo much!!
Ok, so this
week was another very special week for the missionaries here in the
Mexico Cancun Mission!! We had another General Authority come to visit
us!! Elder Arnulfo Valenzuela, a member of the quroum of the Seventy.
Arnulfo Valenzuela
It
was wonderful!! He talked to us about our purpose as missionaries, and
how we can become "Full Purpose Missionaries". In other words, doing all
of what is required of us as missionaries. So for example, not just
working with less active members or just trying to baptize everyone. Even
though that would be amazing haha!! We have a saying here in the
mission. Encontrar(find) Enseñar(teach) Bautizar(baptize)
Retener(retain) and Reactivar(re-activate). EEBRR . So our job is to
find people to teach, teach them, baptize them, retain them as new
members, and also reactivate less actives. So he taught us the ways that
we can constantly be doing these 5 things and not just one or two. It
was really special!!
Also, guess what? Elder Valenzuela
interviewed a few missionaries. Yep you guess it, I was one of them!! I
got to talk face to face with a General Authority!! How awesome is
that!?!? I felt the spirit so strong during the interview and also
during the sessions that he taught us. I have been truly blessed here in
this Mission. I've had two amazing opportunities to talk face to face
with Men who have been called my God to be special witnesses and
representatives of our Lord Jesus Christ!!!!!!! Wow. I really felt like
the Savior himself was here this week. Sometimes I ponder about how
wonderful it would be to be called to be an Apostle of Jesus Christ.
Pure AWESOMENESS!!
Oh and something else happened too. This
past week my companion and I went to Tizimin to do a baptismal
interview. And the member drove up to us to take him to his house to
have the interview with the investigator. And guess what? His license
plate says Alberta, Canada!!! WOW!!! What are the chances of that!?!? So
ya the member is Canadian and he's living here with his wife who is
Mexican. He finished his mission about three years ago and now he's
living here. He's from Ontario but he was working in Edmonton. And he
has the Alberta plate still because he told me that he drove it here
from Edmonton. Wow, super long trip haha!! What a small world we live
in...
Anyways, thats all I got for this week. Hope all of you
fathers enjoyed fathers day!! May we all have another uplifting, safe,
and spiritual week in the work of Salvation!!
Lots of love,
Elder Strate
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