Week 21 - Mosquito Bait

This week we had a lot of people let us down, and we haven't done much. We didn't have a single investigator come to church, and in México missions in General, that's not really a good thing. People have to come to church 3 times before they can be baptized, so if they don't come, their baptismal date falls through. Well, a lot of people's date fell through, and it was really bothersome for us. I'm not sure whats up, so we'll have to have a couple lessons with a couple people this week.

Everyone from my generation that's in my Zone

We had to spend the first 3 days of the week in Cuernavaca for various reasons. Monday, one of the Assistants had an interview with Elder Contreras; by the time we finished, it was too late to go home. Tuesday we stayed the night there again to make it to Zona Civac for the Zone conference. That was actually really tight. President gave us some great insights about commitments, and how we need to be more careful about finding commitments and not dropping people just becasue they don't come to church once. After, we had to do a baptismal interview in Pradera, and we didn't finish until 8, so we had to stay in Cuerna again. By this time, I realized I was covered in mosquito bites. The visitor's house in Cuerna doesn't have mosquito netting right now, and they forgot to tell me. I counted 36 bites in total. 

Just the mosquito bites on my hand (13)

Now, usually, bites aren't that bad, but these bites made me sick, and we had to take Thursday off so I could recover.

Friday, we ate with a semi-new family in the ward. They got here about the same time as Elder Contreras. They're about 24 or so, with one kid. The dad is from Australia, but is mexican. He moved to mexico in high school, and Served his mission in Brisbane, Australia. He was telling us his name is Helaman, named after his great great grandfather, Helaman Pratt. His Great(3) grandfather is Parley P. Pratt. If you've met anyone else whose Great(3)grandfather is Parley P. Pratt, it's probably me. He's my 4th cousin, but I guess in mexico, you can be like 6 th or 7th cousins, and people still treat you like family. They're pretty tight. He said he's moving to Utah in a few months with his family, so I guess I'll have some new family to meet? He invited me to meet everyone, once I can speak some decent spanish, of course.

Mi Primo y mi sobrino

That's it for the week. We'll probably be moving houses again tomorrow, and hopefully next week can be more productive. My favorite Scripture this week is Mosiah 2:41 talking about happiness. Feel free to check it out. It's on the internet if you don't have your own book to read it from.

¡Nos Vemos!