Mexico city fresh air...

Hey there family,

So once again, there isn’t a ton to report. But I am still living.  Here I am still breathing in the Mexico City fresh air. Haha it’s not very fresh. I saw the moon the other day. It was super orange – either because of an eclipse or because of the pollution.

So a quick recap of the work. By Wednesday night we hadn’t found anyone that we could really teach. We were kind of bummed, but Elder Huber set a goal with us to find five people on Thursday to invite to church. We were running all over the place contacting everyone. We eventually found a family of five plus two other people who said they would go. I was super excited. (Before we left the house we prayed that we would be able to find at least five people that we could teach.) I was so grateful. When we really ask specific questions in our prayers, that is when we get specific answers.

There usually is a trend here with the people that say they will go. Only half the people that say they will go to church actually end up coming.  So we were able to help three people from the family come and one other lady come to church. I think these individuals really liked it yesterday. All the members were super nice and went to go meet them. They even helped them go to their classes. I don’t know these people super well yet but I really hope we can help them gain a real testimony of these (gospel) things.

So with that, Monica…lady who isn’t married... She is so good! Her son just passed the sacrament yesterday and he came in a suit. She came to church as well on her own in a dress and all. We had an interesting lesson with her yesterday. I wasn’t planning on going by but just decided to see how she was doing. I was asking her some questions about Joseph Smith and she didn’t really know about the restoration. I wasn’t exactly sure what she has been taught, but I told her we were going to start from the beginning with the things we teach. We also set goals with her such as reading the Book of Mormon ten minutes everyday and saying three prayers during the day. She was so happy with that. She knows that this Gospel can change lives, but she hasn’t been understanding the principles well. She started crying and told us how grateful she was for us. Even though she doesn’t understand everything, she really wants to get baptized. She has seen so many changes with her son. I hope we can find a way to help get her husband on board. He doesn’t really want anything to do with it.  It’s kind of a sad situation between them, but hopefully we can help them.

So yesterday, I saw a big semi truck crash. That was exciting. We were right next to it and all of a sudden I felt a rumble. I think the driver fell asleep at the wheel and hit the railing and destroyed the back part of the truck. It was pretty cool. Everyone was okay. 

So that was my week. Hope you are all doing well! I love hearing from everyone. Miss you!

-Elder Thomas