Well it has been a really good week this week! We have been having some pretty good success with the investigators that we do have! It has been pretty good! The weather has been a lot better here! The sun finally came out and we went right back up into the high 90s, it was so good!
The last Monday in the night we had another
lesson with Jessica and her family. It was the first time that we has
met her family and because she is only 17 we have to have permission
from her parents to be able to teach her. So it turns out that her mom
is Catholic and her dad is Ateo (Doesn't believe in the Bible or in God) So
I was like great, how in the world am I supposed to teach someone that
doesn't believe in the Bible or in God. He told me from the beginning to
be ready to answer his questions that he is going to have! So as we got
started I was a little nervous! We taught the Restoration, and I'm not
even gonna tell you how long it took us to get through the lesson! We
sat there for 2 hours!! I have never been pounded with so many random
questions in my life! Luckily I'm pretty sure that we answered him well!
At the end of the lesson her mom was actually really interested! It all
went really well! The dad is still
really nice to us and everything just haha... I'm not sure what he
thinks of us!
Tuesday we had a Zone conference in Villa with
our mission president. It went really good! We learned a lot more things
that we could do better and things that we definitely need to work on!
He changed on rule of the mission though. I guess that its a rule for
all of the missions in Mexico that we have to have our investigators
come 5 times to church before we can baptize them! That's gonna be rough!
it is hard enough to get our investigators to come to church but now
they have to have come 5 times before baptism. That next day right as we
were ending the day and walking to our last appointment. I got a call
from our mission President and he said that he was in my area in front
of my church waiting for us, he wanted to come and see our house!!
Haha.... luckily the house was clean! Haha but he and all of his family
came and talked with us for a bit and then we went around to get to know
our area. He told us to find a
nicer house to buy!! Haha and he gave us money to buy new mattresses!!
It was sweet!!
Saturday in the morning we had an activity in
the Stake center with the whole zone! We had to help teach the youth
with an activity called a day in the mission. We taught them the First
lesson and then we went out and started teaching all the less actives in
the area. We left them to do all of the teachings! We just lead them
around to the houses! It was pretty fun.
That night we had a lesson with Abraham. It
went really good! He is living the Word of Wisdom and he told me that he
feels really good about his decision for the 7 of December! We are
really excited about that! The next day in Church another one of our
investigators showed up! Felix! The old man that we have been teaching
for a while! After church we had a lesson with him and our ward mission
leader, he accepted a date for the 21 of December! It was really cool to
be able to see him there! The only bad part is that Jessica and her
family didn't show up! So we had to move back her date a week! But
hopefully everything will work out!
That night we had a special meeting in Villa
with the area President Elder Johnson from the Seventy. He wanted all
the ward council and missionaries to be there. He spoke to us about how
we could be so much better, I guess that our numbers as a mission are
not where they should be. And he talked about what we are doing as a
ward and as missionaries to be finding news and reactivation. Mexico has
the most baptisms but also has the most less and inactive members in
the world!.
It was really cool because the stake from my
first area here in Mexico was there!! So all the members from Paraiso
were there!!! It was way cool to be able to see them! and to be able to
talk to them!!! Haha I couldn't speak at all when I was there and they
were all so surprised at my Spanish and how I have changed....
supposedly!! Haha.
Everything is going good here! We are going to be changing some things here in the mission! I love and miss all of you!!
Elder Liljenquist
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