Hey Family!
Wow, this week has been crazy! Exhausting. Monday
night I started feeling a little sick. It just got worse. The whole shibang.
They call it the gripa here. I think of death from the grim reaper. haha. I got
a fever of 99.5 and unfortunately in order to be allowed to stay in the house
to rest it needs to be 100.4. I was secretly hoping it would go up. haha But
the WORK MUST GO ON!
On Tuesday we went with Victor on the bus up to
the top of our area. We contacted the bus. You pretty much tell everyone we are
representative of Jesus Christ and we have a message that blesses everyone’s
life. We then give pamphlets out to those that want one. Of course the first
lady I contacted was a Jehovah’s Witness who unfortunately just wanted to Bible
Bash.
Wednesday we met up with one of the zone leaders
for an interview with this lady who has enough assitantances [attendances at
church] for baptism and her husband is an inactive member. They need to go to church enough for us to see
they are truly committed. The zone
leaders told us she had gone to church 4 or 5 times but this time she said she
had only been one time. She is 75 years
old and has trouble staying focused. We asked if we could call her husband to
check with him. She can’t be baptized without having at least 3 or 4
assitances. We asked for her husband’s number and she gave it to us. We called
the number and then her house phone started ringing. We all just looked at each
other like "you’ve got to be kidding". She then picked up the phone
and said "¡bueno?" She then realized it was us. It was so funny!!! Poor lady. Anyway, she was
baptized yesterday.
Thursday we went to our zone conference with
President Whitehead. It was really good. We learned more about how we can teach
better and with the Spirit! A lot of missionaries just get in the habit of
teaching the same thing in the same method. A lot of times it doesn’t fufill
people’s needs. It was a really good conference!
On the way to conference I took the metro. It was
crazy! Everyone just smushes on. After, my tie was pulled down and some lady and
guy were fighting haha. Oh Mexico.
We are also teaching this lady named Betsabeth.
She is awesome! She was brought by a member to church last week. We gave her
two homework assignments to choose from and she did both! I suspect she’ll
desire to be baptized soon.
The church was really
interesting because it has so much history. It is like seeing all the history
of the Great Apostacy. They hardly have any thing to do with Christ and if they
do, it’s of him on a cross or dead and bloody. Not super uplifting. Anyway,
today was really fun and I’ll share a few photos.
Oh guess what I got....My PACKAGES! I am giving
me something to look forward to so I haven’t opened them. Even though I know
what’s in them because of the paper on the front...haha. I am so excited. Thank
you so much for that!
This week on Wednesday my companion needs to go
visit the doctor for some problems he’s had on the mission. The doctor is right
next to the temple so we get to go to the temple! I am so excited! It’s closed, but the visitor’s center is open.
I might get some supplies there. :)
Oh! We made friends with our deaf friend. She
told us we are allowed to pet her dog and he doesn’t bite.
Anyway, I think that is mostly my week. CrAzY.
Sorry it’s so random, but this mission is really random. Love you all!
-Elder Thomas
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