First Baptism

 

Lunes:

After 6 Elder Clawson and I went to visit a member that lives by our pueblo. His house at the top of a very large steep hill that overlooks the city. Luckily we still had our cameras so we can show you all how beautiful Puebla is at night. After admiring the great view for awhile, we went and talked with the member named Jose. He is a convert, who just needed somebody to talk to. We managed to get in a word or if we were lucky two words in our two hour long conversation with him. We missed are other meeting because of our conversation, but Jose is a funny guy I enjoy listening to him rant about things. We managed to escape to our next cita with Agileo. Agileo has some serious issues with drinking. The first time we met him he broke down crying because of his drinking problems. When we got to his house he was drunk again. So we were not able to teach him, because he would not remember anything the next day. However, we were able to comfort him and encourage him with scriptures.

Martes:

We went to teach one of most important investigators today named Luis. He is a Panadero who lives right next to us. Sadly we were not able to teach him a lesson today because he was busy making pan, but we were able to visit with him while he worked. It was amazing to watch him make conchas, ohaldras, and many others. He also showed all the animals he could make out of pan like turkeys, turtles, and dogs. It was super cool! We want to go there for our P day and learn how to make a few different types of pan. Later on that day we went to go teach other important investigators named Mario, Martha, Fernanda, and Erik. We started teaching them, but then Mario and Martha stopped us and sent Fernanda to buy groceries to make us dinner. While, Fernanda was out buying groceries they told us how Fernanda has begun seeing a married man about 20 years older than her. However, before we could get more information about the situation Fernanda returned. Since then we have been trying to find the best way to help Fernanda and her Parents with this situation.

Miercoles:

We had are last district meeting today because this is the last week before changes. We were able to get pictures with our district (Hermana Flores, Hermana Solorio, Elder Walgamott, and Elder Gomez). They are such great missionaries. We also had the opportunity to teach Georgina the last lessons required for her baptism this weekend. It is interesting to see how the spirit can make people so ready for baptism. Her entire family are members and she just told us one day that she wanted to be with her family for eternity. It was so cool to see how everyting just flowed with her.

Jueves:

Thanksgiving!! We had the opportunity to eat lunch today with our Ward Mission Leader, Hermano Truhillo. They were going to make us Turkey, but that is pretty expensive here. However, they still cook some great food for us. We also had the opportunity today to kind of teach one of our new investigators named Angel. He owns a fruitstand and works from 6 to 9. So we had to teach him while he was working. We are hoping that we can get him to stop working on Sundays so we can get some real lessons with him. Aparantly his kids have been reading the Book of Mormon and the Folletos we have been passing along. Please pray that he can find an opportunity to hear a good lesson from us. We also had greatest Thanksgiving Burritos

Viernes:

We taught Rafa the plan of Salvation and he accepted it pretty well. We are still trying to get him an answer about the Book of Mormon and to stop smoking. However, every time we visit with him he has new questions and is constantly studying the Book of Mormon. We tried to teach Luis today and managed to teach him about half of the Plan of Salvation, but his wife, who is uncomfortable with us, came home so we had to leave. However, I feel lke Luis is very preparred for the Gospel. He wants to get baptised. All he needs to do is go to Church consistently.

Sabado:

Today was Georgina´s baptism. She was so happy and excited to make this promise with God. It was amazing to see how huge her family was. Almost as big as our family lol. I also had to give a talk which hopefully made a little bit of sense.We taught Salvador and Alma (some Menos Activos), but seem as unreceptive as ever. We invited them to Church the next day, but they did not come. We were able to set up a Noche de Hogar with Hermano Truhillo for lunes. Hopefully the faith of the Truhillo family can rekindle their desire to attend church.

Domingo:

Georgina looked so happy when she got the gift of the Holy Ghost. She always seems to be smiling when we see her. It was awesome to see her rapid progress. Today we did not have to much work so we contacting alot and tried to spread the word about the new Church initiative, Illumina el Mundo.

This initiative is cool. I want to encourage everybody to check it out. Every day of December the Church has provided a attribute of Christ, a scripture, and ideas for service that complement that attribute of Christ. Christ was the light of the world and we can be too. It is so cool to see all of the videos and ideas the Church has provided. It would be awesome if all of you guys could participate.

I love you all!

Feliz Dia de dar Gracias

Elder Thompson