Tehuacan

Lunes:

Today we went to eat cemitas in a street stand with the elderes from the Guadalupana, Elder Novelo y Elder Gonzalez. After we ate we went to the Gran Abominable in the center of Puebla. It is always interesting to enter but it kind of gives me the creeps of all the art of Christ dying and the saints being killed. I dont know whenever I see a crucifix I always think of the scripture "No esta aqui ha resucitado." Mateo 28:5-6 After the catolica fuimos al Gran Bodega to buy a couple things for the week.

Martes:

I had the opportunity to have an entrevista with presidente stellmon today. He shared two stories that I think we can all use today. First he talked about Hair Coats. En ye olden days monks used to make coats out beaver or otter skin because of the little spines that they have in their fur. They would turn the rough fur inward so that it would rub and irrate their skin. They did this so that every moment they moved the would get pricked and remember that they are sinners and separated from God. He talked about how sometimes we need to turn our coats outward to Christ. He wants us to pick ourselves up dust ourselves off and get moving because we have work to do. Then we started talking about prayer and how powerful our connection is with God. He asked me to ask this question in my nightly prayer, "God what do you want me do?" He then told me a story of a missionary that asked this question. He recieved the distinct impression to clean his bed. At first he thought This is stupid Im not gonna make my bed Im just gonna through the covers back like I always do. He heard make your bed the second time and finally decided to make his bed. While he was making his bed he found a whole lot of trash underneath his bed. He cleaned it up as well and kept making his bed for a few days until his companion decided to make his bed too. Underneath the bed of his companion they found a whole bunch of garbage too. They then realized how dirty their house was and how the spirit could not deal in their apartment. President then told me how sometimes we dont recieve answers to our questions but then testified to me that every time we ask this question we will recieve an answer. No matter how stupid or small the prompting is it is something that God wants us to do and we will grow in the process.

Miercoles:

Intercambios con Elder Novelo. We were basically walking the whole day because everyone was busy, but I learned alot from Elder Novelo. He is about to complete his mission and is a super great elder. One of the things I learned from him is how there are three factors in baptism. Our efforts, the agency of the investigators, and the will of God. Only when all three of these factors is fufilled will our investigators be baptised. Then to finish off the night we ate crappy pizza with ketchup on top with a liter of coca and traded nuestros bandas favoritas de rock alternativo.

Jueves:

The elders from the Guadalupana and us bought 66 blocks of cement to help a member of our ward finish his house. It was super fun that day cementing blocks into walls. Because we only had one cuchillo elder novelo made another one out of a sardine can which worked suprisingly well.

Viernes y Sabado:

Mis ultimos burritos de San Pedro

Domingo:

We finally have a bishop and its hermano Mariene Perez. He is super young but I know he is going to do great. We also went to visit Nicholaus and he estaba bien boracho. So we couldnot teach him but he talked about how when he saw our rostro "countanences" He knew that God existed. It was super sad because I am not in my area anymore to help him. The asistentes called us at 11:30 and told me I am going to tehuacan. After scrambling to get everything together and getting a few hours of sleep we left for the capu and I left Elder Hernandez and took a two hour bus ride watching Dragon Ball z to tehuacan. My new companion is named elder smith just barely finished his training. So we are going to if two gueros pueden vivir in méxico. I´ll let you all know this next week goes.

Love you all Keep smiling and improving,

Elder Thompson