I pray that you all are having a great Monday!! I am feeling good and working hard here in Atlixco. It has been amazing working in the ward and trying to coordinate the work with the members. I have really enjoyed living with 3 other missionaries because we make a good team. Elder Garcia, Elder Chinchilla, Elder Cruz, and I were able to pull together a super fun activity this last Friday. However we officially got permission to move out to a pueblo (so that hopefully we can start a rama) named Axocopan.
We have been focusing our efforts on Axocopan because they already have 2 Melquisedec priesthood holders (we would need three more to start the rama). This pueblo is a center of travel for combis and camiones, which will make traveling farther easier and cheaper. The main people that seem to have potential in Axocopan is a man called Eric and 2 little girls who still have not been baptized because of inactivity.
We actually found Eric yesterday after trying to follow up with the contact we had with his Dad. Eric is Catholic, very friendly, and looks like a classic thug haha. We started teaching him about three basics he would need to do to improve his relation with God. In Spanish they are called OLA (Oracion, Leer, y Asistir) or in English RAP (Read, Attend, and Pray) and Eric seemed to take them very well.
The other 2 little girls looks a little bit more difficult to bring them back to the fold. We talked with the mom named Juana, who says that she only got baptized to please her Mormon parents in law. However, after having a small lesson with Juana about the Book of Mormon she was open to reading it to find out what it is. We invited her to read Alma 32 to help her understand that the church is here to help increase her faith and not to lavar su cerebro.
Elder Garcia is doing good and quickly becoming a great missionary. His family is still fine there in Nicaragua. I still have not told Elder Garcia how much time I have, which is going to make me sad to tell him. However, I think it makes it much easier to focus for the both of us while I only have a year here in the mission. haha
Love you all and I hope that you have some great experiences this week. If they do not seem to be arriving go out and look for them!
Love you all
Elder Thompson