Week 83 - Happy Birthday Elder Bradshaw!

This week was pretty cool but pretty hard at the same time. 

With the trainee of my trainee, Elder Fullmer.  He is
from the Copper Hills area of West Jordan

Tuesday we had a multi-zone conference with the Iguala Zone and us, we gave a pretty good training about finding news and learning to baptize every week. President talked about how we first need a desire to baptize every week. Right when we finished the conference, the Assistants called us and told us there would be special changes, and that one of our best missionaries would be heading to acapulco, and we'd be getting some other missionaries. I got super stressed out about how we needed to do so much and there was no time to really think about it. We hardlly worked until wednesday night, and we planned for a great day the next day, with specific plans and great energy. 

the next day, I woke up with colitis again. I was sick until Sunday. We couldn't visit hardly anyone.

Sunday, we had one come to church, and we found two new people to teach. We had a really good day on sunday, in spite of the fact that we couldn't do anything all week. It was Elder Bradshaws Birthday, and he cooked a bacon and eggs breakfast. The landlady gave him some pingüinos and some sodas, too. Today we just bought some souvenirs, and took it easy. I don't want to get sick again this week.

Love you guys! Have a great week.

Week 82 - Meeting Goals

Hamburgers with Elder Riley,
Haun, and Suarez(taking the picture)
with Hna Yari.

Sorry for no email last week. I had a lot of other things pulling me away.

Last week we had Consejo de Liderazgo, for all the leaders. It was super fun, and the assistants gave a great training about how to contact more effectively, and president is making his goals very clear. They told us they want every area to find 6 new people in a week. Well, this week as a zone, we found 65 people(the current mission record for the year) and found 7.2 people per area. We're pretty proud of our zone for it, and I'm sure they're happy about it too. I see some great stuff going on here.

We taught two really great people this week. One was named erick, and he's completely agnostic(a pretty rare sight to see, someone who is openly agnostic) and we taught him about Joseph smith's first prayer, and how he could talk directly with God if he desired to.

Week 81 - Video Call

We didn't get email from Elder Scott this week, but we were able to enjoy an hour-long video call with him!  He had a training meeting with President and Sister Treviño.  I found this photo posted to their Facebook page.  Gabe is on the right, second to the top row.

Week 80 - Conference!

 This week was stellar! We had a great time listening to conference, and learning what they would have us know. I loved everything that they said about the atonement and being a member missionary. 

We had divisions in Cuernavaca with the assistants, and they really helped us learn how to focus our teaching on the needs of the people we're teaching, and being an instrument in God's Hands. It was super fun.

Week 79 - Double Divisions

Hey guys! this week was really cool! We went on divisions twice, with two different districts in our zone - the Insurgentes missionaries and the Paraíso missionaries. 

Divisions with Elder Rodriguez

I got to go with my old companion on Thursday, and it was a super good time. He's got a little over a year now, and that's crazy. When he was with me, he barely had three months! We had a fun day in Insurgentes. We got a new  person in teaching with baptismal date, and it was super good. We talked about some difficulties they were having and we set some good goals with them. They're gonna be killing it out there.

On Saturday, I went on divisions in my area with Elder Rodriguez. He has 4 months in the mission, and suprised me with his maturity and power as he taught. We taught a guy named Gabino, and he's super spiritual. He practically understands the entire gospel of Christ without having the Book of Mormon. He says he studies by faith and by book. He really like the idea of the Book of Mormon.