Well another Monday has come and another week has gone, wow. Well this week was a little longer and a little faster at the same time. Me and Elder Peña are getting along better than ever before and a lot of our prayers have been answered. And the branch building had decent attendance yesterday which was another plus, its has been really down for a while but yesterday and last week a lot of people who hadn't been for a while were there. We just gotta get everyone to commit to a consistent attendance. Investigator wise at the moment things don't seem to be as set or smooth as i would like them to be, from my view quiet a few currently lack a bit if initiative or the confidence necessary to move forward. This last week we have been dropping a lot of people that we taught for a long time and its looking like we are going to continue dropping people. Its a real bummer to be honest because you rally want the best for these people, but sometimes its the best way you can truly show you love for them. They say if you rally love you investigators you drop them, for a while so that they can notice the difference. Just about all day everyday of this week was knocking doors. We are really trying to rebuild up the teaching pool we had, everybody we had in September and the beginning of the months got baptized or we left them so its felt i bit of a long and grueling process of rebuilding.
But Thursday me and elder Peña had a good companionship planning/inventory and things of gone better since.. the power of communication. Most of the people that let us in to teach them all said no to going to church this week, so that was a real bummer. But its not reason enough to get our hopes down or to incline the head, where one door closes two more open. And weather the blessing comes in this life or the life after, in 10 minutes or 10 years, i don't know, but it will come so we just gotta stick it out to the end. We are still working with Mario, but we haven't been able to see him for a while, and when we do talk with him he tends to be a bit to hard headed to fully accept what we teach. His problem is that he still is really good friends with Miguel (form the coffee incident) and who knows what kind of bad influence that is. So this week if we don't see much more progress in Mario we are going to have to drop him for a while. I don't really want to drop him because he does go to church. But he isn't sure about accepting a baptismal date and he still has to get married to Aurea. Then we have also started working with family the recent converts Guadalupe and Daniel. They are OK, the niece of Guadalupe went to church yesterday and said she liked it a lot, so we just gotta keep her animated and see if we can get her to agree to baptized the 12 with Mario. And we are still working with Levi and Jessica, its a tough situation, they have to get married as well, but they have no time. you all know how it is to be a young couple, taking care of your kid and working to pay for him so that really been a tough speed bump, but like a speed bum it's possible to overcome.
Well everyone we teach has no excuse to not get baptized, i just think they have to truly desire it. Its gonna continue to take a lot of patience and perseverance on my part to get everything to work out, but i know it will work out sooner or later or in one way or the other. And as for me I'm fine, today i have been resting a lot, we didn't go anywhere for p-day today, just a lot of sleeping and listening to music and reading. I cant believe i have 18 months in the mission, and that its already almost my 2nd Christmas in the mission. I'm way to young for that to be happening! Don't ask me about what I'm gonna do in 7 months because i definably don't know, something to do with work school and who knows what else. I really try hard not to think about it to be honest, i believe ill have enough time to think about it when I'm get there so ill do my best to be patient and to ponder that jazz. But life right now really is requiring a lot of patience, with myself and my weaknesses, and the area and the people I work with and the opposition. I'm convinced that in just about all of us our true desires deep down are to be perfect like Christ and to have a perfect faith like he did and the eye of faith into the next life as he did so that we don't focus so much on the silly temporal things of this world but sometimes we just don't, its the joke of been human i guess you could say. As mush as i want to be 100% and 100% 100% i just don't make it to the 100%. BU ti know that even though I'm not 100% Jesus was infinite percent to make up for my .00000001% and that he will help everything in the area to workout to be perfect so that we can complete with the mission goals. Here in this region of Mexico we are asked to baptize every week. Me and Elder Flores almost did it in Jun and a little in July, i know its possible here and we can do it, some missionaries here have baptized weekly up to 24 weeks straight. I know if i keep working i can do it too, the grace of Christ is sufficient for all mankind, so i believe i can be helped to complete with out mission goal so that's what I'm working for more than anything and it requires a lot of mental diligence as well as physical. Success is all in the mind and the attitude of the one striving to obtain it, successful is a state of mind and i know i can reach it! I love you all and thanks for all of your prayers and support, i couldn't go a day without all of your help to me so thanks for everything! Ill keep ´praying for you guys and please don't stop praying for me!
But Thursday me and elder Peña had a good companionship planning/inventory and things of gone better since.. the power of communication. Most of the people that let us in to teach them all said no to going to church this week, so that was a real bummer. But its not reason enough to get our hopes down or to incline the head, where one door closes two more open. And weather the blessing comes in this life or the life after, in 10 minutes or 10 years, i don't know, but it will come so we just gotta stick it out to the end. We are still working with Mario, but we haven't been able to see him for a while, and when we do talk with him he tends to be a bit to hard headed to fully accept what we teach. His problem is that he still is really good friends with Miguel (form the coffee incident) and who knows what kind of bad influence that is. So this week if we don't see much more progress in Mario we are going to have to drop him for a while. I don't really want to drop him because he does go to church. But he isn't sure about accepting a baptismal date and he still has to get married to Aurea. Then we have also started working with family the recent converts Guadalupe and Daniel. They are OK, the niece of Guadalupe went to church yesterday and said she liked it a lot, so we just gotta keep her animated and see if we can get her to agree to baptized the 12 with Mario. And we are still working with Levi and Jessica, its a tough situation, they have to get married as well, but they have no time. you all know how it is to be a young couple, taking care of your kid and working to pay for him so that really been a tough speed bump, but like a speed bum it's possible to overcome.
Well everyone we teach has no excuse to not get baptized, i just think they have to truly desire it. Its gonna continue to take a lot of patience and perseverance on my part to get everything to work out, but i know it will work out sooner or later or in one way or the other. And as for me I'm fine, today i have been resting a lot, we didn't go anywhere for p-day today, just a lot of sleeping and listening to music and reading. I cant believe i have 18 months in the mission, and that its already almost my 2nd Christmas in the mission. I'm way to young for that to be happening! Don't ask me about what I'm gonna do in 7 months because i definably don't know, something to do with work school and who knows what else. I really try hard not to think about it to be honest, i believe ill have enough time to think about it when I'm get there so ill do my best to be patient and to ponder that jazz. But life right now really is requiring a lot of patience, with myself and my weaknesses, and the area and the people I work with and the opposition. I'm convinced that in just about all of us our true desires deep down are to be perfect like Christ and to have a perfect faith like he did and the eye of faith into the next life as he did so that we don't focus so much on the silly temporal things of this world but sometimes we just don't, its the joke of been human i guess you could say. As mush as i want to be 100% and 100% 100% i just don't make it to the 100%. BU ti know that even though I'm not 100% Jesus was infinite percent to make up for my .00000001% and that he will help everything in the area to workout to be perfect so that we can complete with the mission goals. Here in this region of Mexico we are asked to baptize every week. Me and Elder Flores almost did it in Jun and a little in July, i know its possible here and we can do it, some missionaries here have baptized weekly up to 24 weeks straight. I know if i keep working i can do it too, the grace of Christ is sufficient for all mankind, so i believe i can be helped to complete with out mission goal so that's what I'm working for more than anything and it requires a lot of mental diligence as well as physical. Success is all in the mind and the attitude of the one striving to obtain it, successful is a state of mind and i know i can reach it! I love you all and thanks for all of your prayers and support, i couldn't go a day without all of your help to me so thanks for everything! Ill keep ´praying for you guys and please don't stop praying for me!
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