Plenty of Work to Do

 Hello again everybody this week has been a solid one 

Lets start off with some of the bad news. Unfortunately we are returning to the yellow light which means we can't teach insides homes or contact in the street or houses, but it is supposed to only last for 2 weeks!

Another thing that happened thus week was three police officers died about four minutes away from where we live. But no worries, we are safe!

Baptism

Okay so now here are the good news. One of the lesson active families that we had been working with had their 8 year old boy Baptized. Their family will be leaving to montana in a few momths but it has been a great experience working with them and teaching their boy!

Member Visits

●We visited la hermana zobaida, she spent about na hour telling us about her crazy experiences. She was going through a time when she wanted to get divorced, at the same time she had cancer, she was lookikg to find God, and so one night she literally prayed the whole night asking for help, then the next morning the missionaires came and knocked on her door! She eventually got divorced, then baptized, then helped her friend get baptized! Then we talked to her about la hermana Wendy from last week that we visited, they had the same cancer problem so she has been trying to help her.

Non-member lessons

●We had a great lesson with someone we are teaching named la hermana blanca we walked to her house and had a lesson with her and her 3 year old kid, we taught them about the restoration and invited them to read the book of Mormon and prayed, she received the lesson really well and has a lot of potencial!

●We had a really nice, smoke and distraction free lesson with la hermana Josefina. She is the mom of three kids that got baptized but never were active. We taught her about the restoration of the gospel and we are excited to see her start reading the Book of mormon and progressing!

●Then we visited this other inactive family and it's another interesting situation. The wife of one of the inactive families sons got baptized about 2 years ago, but never came back and got confirmed so we started teaching them.

Less active visits

●Then we had a visit with a less active family and it was interesting. The mom is la Hermana Bustillos, and let me say she is very crazy. She is still honestly convinced that covid doesn't exist because she has never got it. On the way out, she showed us her Marijuana plant...we thought she was kidding and didn't believe her until we decided to smell it, but uhhh yup she wasn't kidding. Then her daughter la Hermana azul kept calling me some name that I didn't understand because it was one of the thousands of slang words they use down her. But apparently she was trying to tell me that I was a guy that had a lot of girlfriends back at home...okaaaayy

●We gave a bible an inactive dad that we are going going start working with

The food

●A member made us super good discada this week - Sausage, ham, salchicha, weenie, cow meat, potatoes, tortillas, cheese, salsa

I want to finish with a quote I enjoyed from my studies from the prophets about prayer, agency, and action.

As parents and leaders, we must remember that ‘it is not meet that [the Lord] should command in all things’ [D&C 58:26]. Like the brother of Jared, we must carefully consider the needs of our family members, make a plan to meet those needs, and then take our plan to the Lord in prayer. This will require faith and effort on our part, but He will help us as we seek His assistance and do His will” (in Conference Report, Apr. 2003, 15; or Ensign, May 2003, 16).

"The Lord wants us to grow and learn as we make our own decisions. He also wants us to take our conclusions to Him frequently for His confirmation. When the brother of Jared asked the Lord about the matter of light for the vessels, the Lord answered with a question of His own: “What will ye that I should do that ye may have light in your vessels?” (Ether 2:23). According to President Harold B. Lee (1899–1973), the Lord’s question was similar to saying the following:

                                “‘Well, have you any good ideas? What would you suggest that we should do in order to have light?’ …

                                “Then the Lord went away and left him alone. It was as though the Lord were saying to him, ‘Look, I gave you a mind to think with, and I gave you agency to use it. Now you do all you can to help yourself with this problem; and then, after you’ve done all you can, I’ll step in to help you.’”

                                After considering the possibilities, the brother of Jared demonstrated his great faith by asking the Lord to touch 16 stones and supply light. The Lord answered this plea and not only provided light for the vessels but gave this faithful man a vision unlike any other.

                                President Lee concluded: “This is the principle in action. If you want the blessing, don’t just kneel down and pray about it. Prepare yourselves in every conceivable way you can in order to make yourselves worthy to receive the blessing you seek”

Pictures

1. Baptism

2. Discada

3. Food

4. A cute chihuahua en chihuahua:)

Week Three in Cuatehemoc

 This week has been exceptional. We had two people show up to church on sunday. One of them was the sister of one of the members we had been working with- Hermano Noe - hes a convert to the church of about 3 years. Apparently the entire rest of his family are non members so there's a lot of work to do there.

The other non member that had been showing up to church and we hadn't even realized was the niece of an active member, named Mauricio. So we are going to start working and helping these two people.

For our fast Sunday meal, the members fed us some soup which had chicken on the bone. We all had a good time eating and then feeding the stray dogs the bones. It reminded me of the first time I was in Mexico when I would I always feed all the mean dogs, then those dogs would always start to like me

We had a very neat experience on Sunday evening. On Friday we got a call that we to see if we could go visit a very sick lady that lived in Anahuac. So we called our Mission President and we received permission to go. This place was previously closed because of some dangerous things that happened. So the members came and picked us up and we traveled to her house. We said a prayer and then we went inside to meet the her. Her name is Wendy, she probably has 35 years old. She has 2 little precious girls - five and three years old. We talked to her and she explained everything that had been happening to her. Since November of 2020, she has had cancer, and she has tumors in her legs. She has already had three operations /surgeries. She then told us that she will have another visit with the doctors, but te last time she went, they told her that there is no remedy. And so she was left to think that she will die soon and leave her two little ones behind. After everything we explained the priesthood and asked her if she would like for us to give her a blessing. We then proceeded to give her a priesthood blessing through the prayer of faith since we weren't allowed to touch her. It was a great reminder that the power of God has no limits. Jesus Christ healed so many people without ever touching them. The spirit was strong and afterwards we offered to come back and teach her the plan of salvation.

Just a few other highlights of this week

We received the list of all the members, made a map with all their names and directions and we started searching for them. We have had so much success so far and we are excited to continue!

We were able to found and start teaching eight new people this week. 

Keep these people in your prayers - Hermana Wendy - Sister with cancer, Laisa, Miguel, Gabriel, Jorge Calderon, Blanca and Octaviano, Alejandra and Ernesto, Josefina and Ornorio, and Jose

We had zone conference this week we woke up 5:30. We had interviews with president and got my new temple recommend,  

We had a zone inventory because there was a lot of problems within this zone  

Also I finished my BYU application  

 

The interesting lesson this week...

We had a lesson with Josefina and Ornorio, but he was drunk so he was super distractive...hopefully we catch a bit more perky next time

Something to Share - The infinite accessibility and power of prayer

President James E. Faust bore testimony of the gift and privilege we each have of access to our Heavenly Father through prayer: “Access to our Creator through our Savior is surely one of the great privileges and blessings of our lives. … No earthly authority can separate us from direct access to our Creator. There can never be a mechanical or electronic failure when we pray. There is no limit on the number of times or how long we can pray each day. There is no quota of how many needs we wish to pray for in each prayer. We do not need to go through secretaries or make an appointment to reach the throne of grace. He is reachable at any time and any place”

Elder Talbot