Week 99 - Triple Overtime

Hey!

This week was pretty cool. We hit the ground running this week by doin everything we could think of, and we finished up the week with a whopping 16 new people to teach. (Granted, accepting baptism is a completely different thing.) I've been giving it my all right now, and I'm doing my best to not distract myself...

Saying goodbye to Elder Gray

Week 98 - Last Change

Elder Calixto (my trainee's trainee), Elder Zetten
(My other Trainee) and Elder Fullmer (his trainee) all at
Consejo. Elder Fullmer lives in West Jordan
and went to Copper Hills

August 18, 2019


So we found out on Friday that Elder Cruz and I are gonna be staying together for my last change, and we're going to stay in Galeana. Consejo was really good. The mission is making lots of really awesome changes right now. I also found out that I'll be doubling District/Zone leader this transfer. That'll sure be a blast, but I'll have to relearn how to be a DL because it's been 10 months since I've done it and there have been lots of changes recently.

Week 97 - Divisions, Teques, and BBQ sandwiches

August 5, 2019

This week was really fun! 

Divisions w/ Elder Waldron, who was in my MTC group

 On Wednesday, we went on divisions with the Elders in Tlatenchi, and I went with Elder Waldron, from my MTC district. We got donuts for breakfast. 

We also went to eat in a part of the area called "el lago de Tequesquitengo" or "teques" for short. It's a super cool little lake that has a bunch of hotels and stuff. It's really touristy, and the family that gives us food there is really awesome. They're super strong in the gospel, and make up about one-fourth of our active members.

Starting the morning right

The rest of the week seems like kind of a blur, but I remember that we're going to have a baptism this week for Benjamin. He's been coming to church pretty consistently, but this week he told us he wanted  to get baptized. We're really excited for him!

American food for Elder Cruz

Today for P-day, we wanted to treat Elder Cruz to and American lunch, so Elder King and I went to the grocerey store and bought a ton of sandwich stuff. We made bbq turkey sandwiches with Jalapeño chips, and an apple soda. Good stuff.

Week 96 - Pa'l Calorón

July 29, 2019

It has been getting pretty hot this week. 

It was pretty eventful. My camera was getting repaired and it took some time to get it good again, so I couldn't get many pictures from this week. 

Tuesday we went to Tequesquitengo, which is a really touristy lake in our area. It was really pretty there, but even going 15 away from zacatepec, the humidity was sufficiently higher. It seems like a cool place to visit, but a really difficult place to work in.

Thursday we went on Divisions with the Elders In Puente de Ixtla, and I got to go with Elder Zweifel from Idaho. It was so hot there it burned me through my shirt. That same night, we went up from Puente to Cuernavaca to have an urgent meeting with president about leadership and what we need to do as district and zone leaders. Everyone in the three Morelos Zones came, and we stayed the night up there in Cuerna. 

We had divisions the day before with Elder Riley, who is now the Assistant to the President. Two transfers ago we were both is Chilpancingo, but I was his zone leader, and he was a district leader. I always felt like he taught me more than I could teach him. He's making some really good progress and is just a stellar missionary.

We got a few people with baptismal dates this week, but none of them came to church, so we'll have to start over again getting them witha  baptismal date. That has been one of the most frustrating parts of being a missionary here is getting people to church. I hope we can do a little better in that aspect this week.

It was good to call you guys on Wednesday for Dad's birthday. Hope you had a good 24th!

Sorry for no pictures again. Computers here are not condusive to a picture-sharing environment.

~Elder Scott