Week 91 - Chilaquiles in Jacarandas

June 24, 2019

This week was pretty fast. I don't remember a ton of it, but we did have a few cool things happen.

Feliz Cumpleaños a Gabe

Monday after district meeting, the zone bought me a cake and sang me happy birthday. They pushed my face in the cake and everything. It was a really nice suprise. Elder Vázquez also invited us to a Domino´s Dominator pizza. We put candles in it and had a blast.

Week 90 - Feliz Cumpleaños a mí!

Eating crema and Marlin

This bug is for sale, but it's not an option for me.

 This week was pretty solid. I've already told most of it in my video call home, but I'll let you know just a tad.

Tuesday we were in trio with Elder Vargas and we ate some Marlin(a delicacy here) and some crepes. 

Week 89 - Conference with a Seventy!

June 10, 2019

This week was super cool. We've had quite a few little things happen. Nothing huge, but some cool little details.

Tuesday was the most boring day of the week. We had to go to the bus station to change all 40+ tickets that had been bought to go to and come from the conference that got cancelled. That took quite a long time and just killed my vibe for the rest of the day, because they treated us kinda poorly. But whatever,it takes to progress the work of the Lord, I guess.

Wednesday, they told us we would actually have the conference in Acapulco with Elder Pingree, and so we had to go back and get the tickets Thursday morning at 5:15. We left and had a great time with Elder Pingree. He didn't speak spanish before being assigned to be the 2nd counselor in the Area Presidency, and he was always asking for corrections and just wanted to be understood. He was so kind and Genuine. President Treviño says the Elder Pingree is the only person he personally knows that has all the attributes of Christ. It was cool, and after we had a little leadership conference and he helped us understand our role as leaders a lot more. It was all around really awesome. He even remembered that we saw him in Cuernavaca Centro about 7 months ago!

Week 88 - Rainy Days, Full of Praise

Water in the street this week

This week, it rained quite a bit. It rains practically every night here in chilpo. It's made it start feeling like a really nice, utah-like weather. 

Me pinning Elder Bradshaw against the wall of a Combi,
even though there's plenty of space on the bench
we're sitting on. He wasn't very happy,
and I pretended not to notice, and didn't care.

It does rain a ton here, and floods the streets. And it might rain in one part of the city, but not the other. It's pretty strange. Working has been ok. We found quite a few people, but the majority weren't anything special. A lot of people will say things like "we need to make changes in our lifes and that is the only way we'll ever get blessings from God" and then when we invite them to make changes and get blessings from God, they say no. It was a decently frustrating week.

Ave, her husband, Valeria, Erick, and us.

On the bright side, we did have a little suprise. We've been teaching Elizabeth for a long time now, and the only thing she needs is to get married. She's scared of getting married because her husband has made some mistakes in his life, and she doesn't know if she can do it. But her husband was able to come to church this week! He said he really liked it and is excited to listen to us on tuesday.

Week 87 - Changes - 2pac ft Talent

All the missionaries who got transferred

SO this week were changes, again! It seems like these go by faster and faster. We found out we'd be losing two of our 3 great district leaders, and........Elder Bradshaw and I are staying for a 3rd change! We did NOT thnk that was going to happen, but President says he likes what we're doing here in Chilpo, so he's not gonna change us. Looks like we've got another fat minute together. 

Breakfast with our neighbors

This week we had Gabino come to church again. He's progressing really well and we're hoping that he and his family start coming a lot closer to the Ward. We had a great first hour of church, because it was ward conference, and a terrible second hour, because instead of teaching about Christ or the Gospel, they talked about church policy in regards to Ward mission leaders, Elders quorum presidents and ward council. That was a very dificult thing to explain to our new guys that came. 

On saturday, we had a rescue activity and went out with members to visit less active families who hadn't come for a while. I went with our ward mission leader, Hermano Ayala. He's a great member and a really good mission leader. we went and visited a lot of people, and it was really good to be with a member, because they just think of the gospel in such simple terms that when they invite people, the person just understands. I let him extend every invitation we did that day. Later, at the end of the activity, they bought KFC for everyone that came.

Week 86 - Our day with President!/Colitis

Picadas with President in our house

May 20, 2019

Chilpancingo must have been pretty wicked this week, because, despite our best efforts, we didn't have very much success with finding new people, and less with getting them to church. But, we did have two awesome people show up for church. One is named Elizabeth and she just needs to get married, but has problems with her boyfriend, for some reason he doesn't want to get married. The other is named Ave. Her daughter got baptized about 7 months ago, and today was her first time going to church since her daughter's confirmation. We finally got her to come! Our awesome ward mission leader and his family invited her to come and listen to and area sevanty and the YSA Choir. She finilly decided she would come!

Week 85 - Happy Mother's Day!

May 13, 2019

This week we found some really good people, but, it was not a super successful week. We had nobody come to church, but we worked hard this week.

The biggest thing about this week was that they closed Ocotito and the Elders from down there had to come up and be with us a few days. The ward was super excited to have four missionaries, and were pretty sad to find out that they were temporary. I went with Elder Ramirez from Veracruz.

Elder Ramirez

Week 84 - Happy Battle of the Puebla!

May 6, 2019

 This week was really cool! We went on divisions with Elder Gillins for 4 hours and bought some chilate! Super good stuff, and he taught us a lot about the Law of Attraction and how we need to decide to be good misionaries, and it will happen.

Thursday we went on divisions with Paraíso, and I got to go to their area and work. We had lots of fun. Elder Vasquez is one of my favorite missionaries I know. We were in trio for a little bit, because we got followed by a dog for a long time.