Hey Everyone!
Well we had somewhat of a better week this
past week! We have been working so hard to try and find people to teach
in this dang area! Not gonna lie, but the people here are really tough.
I'm not sure why! I think it's just becuase the area that we have is
super small! And everyone is just used to us walking the same roads
everyday! So Tuesday, we were walking the same old roads again when we
got a call from some other elders in the area next to ours. They passed
along a reference for us and we just happened to be right in front of
the house of the reference. So we went and contacted the house. The dad
of the family was sitting outside, almost like he was waiting for
us. He told us to come in and sit down. We started to talk with him and
he said that he came to our stake conference that we had a couple weeks
ago, and that he loved it. Then we asked if he had any more family that
he lived with.
He responded with "his whole family"! So we asked him if he could bring
them out and introduce us to them! We met all 8 of them! As we were
there, we explained what it is that we do as missionaries and asked them
if they were interested in taking our lessons and they all accepted! It
felt so good as we walked out of that lesson with them!
So Wednesday I went and did splits with a
nelder that is in my district, Elder Rivas. He has like 4 months in the
mission but he is a really good Elder! It went really good! The area
that we were in is famous in all of Mexico for their Memellas!! They
were unreal!!! Not only that, but there house is soo nice!! They even
have Hot water!!!!!! I think that might have been the highlight of the
week!! haha .Having a hot shower was the greatest thing in the world!!! I
actaully felt clean when I got out! I took one that night and another
one in the morning!! The next day it was back to sleeping on the floor
and cold showers!
The weekend went pretty well. We went back and
met that family of 8 and had a really good lesson with the Bishop of our
ward! The dad of the family told us that he wants to be baptized! Now
that we have won over the dad, the rest of the family should be right
behind him! So the whole week everyone has been stressing about the
transfers that are happening today!! Haha... Well It looks like I won't
be here to see this family get baptized! I am headed to Villahermosa! I
will be training a new missionary!!!! Im gonna be a DAD! But I guess
that I am getting" white washed" into my area! That just means they take
out both the elders that were there and put two new elders in! So I
will be training and having to redo a new area.
I'm kinda nervous but I know that everything
will be alright! I need everyone to be praying for my Best friend, Elder
Berry. He has been really sick the past couple of weeks and is doing
his best to fight and stick it out!
I Love all of you soo much
Elder Liljenquist
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