If you ever thought Utah ward choir was rough, you're in for quite a treat when you find out that nobody in Mexico really knows how to sing, or cares to put in the practice to learn. We have to sing two hymns, but If our Relief Society president gets her way, we'll have to sing 5. Not that fun for me, especially because the ward is only interested in the Idea of a choir, but no one wants to come to the practices. Shout out to Sister Shaw and Stevens, who have much more patience than I when it comes to ward choir.
We were only able to teach one lesson this week, and, though it was a really good lesson on the Plan of Salvation, the people we taught are just so involved in their religion that they only took what they wanted and left the rest. We tried to tell them the Church is kind of an all-or-none- kind of thing, but they didn't really get the point.
Sometimes, I just want to give people the answers I've received and share my experiences. But I can't. Everyone is here to learn for themselves and to make their own decisions. It's hard, but I hope they can have some kind of spiritual experience if they actually decide to take our invitation and pray about it. I hope that they approach it with a sincere heart,and a contrite spirit. We'll see, I guess.
On Saturday, a brother of a member said that if Elder Contreras played soccer with him, he'd go to church. So we went to play with him and won 7-3. And he did come to church on Sunday. Sadly, he was the only investigator at church on Sunday.
Today, I'm on splits with one of the Zone Leaders, because Elder Contreras went to Iguala with the other for today. We'll be back together for the district meeting tonight. That's pretty much it for the week. Hope you guys are doing alright back home.
~Elder Scott
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