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. 

Week 78 - Zone Conference and Chilpo Divisions

This week was super cool! We really had a great time. 

The view of my area, Chilpancingo

On Tuesday, some members took us out for a Chinese Buffet. It was great food even though it wasn't super Chinese. Every dish had Jalapeños in it. Still makes for some good food either way. 

Wednesday we had  divisions with Elder Riley in the Obrera Ward, and we went with a  lot of good members. Elder Bradshaw and I also gave a new district leader capacitation for the zone. Elder Riley is a DL here in Chilpancingo. He's a really powerful missionary, and he helped me out a lot that day. And we put someone new with baptismal date. It was super fun!

Chilpo Zone Conference with President Treviño

Friday we had interviews and we stayed in the church the whole day. President talked about the goals of the mission and how need to have faith to achieve them. I love having interviews, because president always has something great to say. right as he finished, he said he hadn't eaten, and since we hadn't either, he sent us for Hamburgers from Lidany´s, the great hamburger place in Centro.  It was super cool. He talked with us while we ate about how he left his job to be a mission president and how that came to pass. Cool stuff

Week 77 - Mazatlán (Not the famous one)

This week, Elder Bradshaw and I have really been working well. I feel like we're going to have lots of success in this area. We found quite a few people this week who are great, and are for sure going to progress. We have lots of faith in the timing of God, and that He'll help prepare the way for them. We should start seeing the fruits of our labors this week.

Mazatlan Cathedral

Week 76 - Guerrero

This week was awesome!! The Guerrero ward is super awesome! It's probably the biggest ward I've been a part of. It's super cool. There are a lot of really cool mambers that I've been able to meet and work with so far. I hope I'll be able to do everything they're hoping for.

Friday we had leadership council in Cuernavaca. We talked about how we can better work with the members and get references from them. Elder Pacheco and I had a big hand in making that capacitation, and it was cool to see how the Lord worked through the assistants and President  to make that exactly how we need it to be here in our mission. Something that president said that I liked was that when we recieve instruction, we shouldn't examine it to see if it's really worth our time, or to see if we really want to do it. We should just do it. The only question we should have is how to do it better. He already has the power of revelation. we just need to follow him.