Mexico Chihuahua Mission

Mexico Chihuahua Mission

Monday, March 19, 2018

Week 15 in Chihuahua - March 19, 2018

This week was pretty awesome. I got Aunt Debra's package and all of her letters!  We were pretty excited that we finally had something at the office.  Tell her thanks so much!  I haven't received any of your letters though.
 
First we got 2 more baptisms. Their names are Ariel Oswaldo Aparicio Valles and Manuel Diego Gonzales. They are great kids with tons of energy. I baptized Manuel and confirmed Ariel and it was awesome.
 
I asked my companion if I would would have to confirm one of them this Sunday because I wanted to know because it's something I've never done before so I wanted to know if I needed to practice. He told me that it would probably be a member. I decided to look over how to do it anyway just in case.
 
Sure enough when we walked into church on Sunday, the Bishop told us we had to do it haha. It acutally went pretty good, the words kinda just flowed. It was a real gift a tongues moment for me.
 
A funny story for this week is that we went on divisions and I was with this elder whose name is Elder Salgado.  We were walking and this huuuge dog bursted out of this gate and went straight for us, barking so loud and it was so aggressive, I thought for sure I was going to get attacked!
 
It was like 3 feet away from me and I just started throwing punches lol. Like I wasn't close enough to hit the dog but he didn't want to get closer because I was flinging my arms like a helicopter. haha
 
I was looking for a rock too but I couldn't find one so I pretended to throw one but the dog was unphased. We did manage to get away and once we did me and Elder Salgado just died in laughter because of how I looked, it was really funny.
 
Then later that night we went to go teach an inactive family and we started off with a hymn and we were the only ones really singng and we didn't know how the song really went for like the 2nd and 3rd verses so it was way awkward for a second and so we kinda started laughing and then the family started laughing and then we really started laughing and before we knew it everyone was lauging really hard haha. It was cool because I think with that hymn we gained their confindence pretty good because they all came to church next Sunday.
 
Another funny thing that happend this week is when we were trying to start the boiler to fill up the font for the baptisms, the sparker thing didn't work so we ended up like lighting paper towels on fire and jaming it through this whole in the box. I remember thinking it was really dumb but my companion says he has done it all the time and sure enough it worked haha. 
 
I decided to fast an extra day this week so I could talk in Spanish without being nervous and I think it worked a little for the confirmation and other stuff.  
 
Also, I had a pretty cool experience. I was saying my prayers and one of my friends from the MTC popped into my head and I had the impression that I needed to email him to see how he was doing and his reply is below:
 
Elder Ligeee! Dude thank you for the email. That was a straight miracle: here´s my group email to explain why. 
So, this week was very interesting. Ateo in spanish is aethist. I have talked to about 25 this week. Actually, about 10 aethists, 2 Jehovahs Witnesses, 5 Christians, 5 or 6 Catholics, and 2 agnostics. All of them want nothing to do with Mormon Missionaries.
 
 
 
 
 
Here´s the miracles: we have recently reset our area and our goals, and have made it a habit to pray in the street several times a day. Each time we pray we go to our appointments, thinking of what we can do after, as recently we have lost a lot of our investigators. So, basically our days are no pretty much open. Lots of prayer for guidance. Means we´ll find all the people who are just waiting to be baptized, right? We´re trying to be obedient and are studying and searching for revelation, so here come the blessings? Wrong. Without fail this week, each time we prayed, we ran into someone who would be open to talk.... about how we were wrong.
 
 
 
 
 By about Saturday at 8ish, I realized what was happening. God answers prayers. No doubt about that, but he is trying to see how far his missionaries are willing to go without a reason to go on. Not to mention, all but 1 of the people we are teaching told us straight up that they don´t want to listen to us anymore, or haven´t been at their appointments or after when we pass for them. Funny week huh?
Don´t worry though. It´s been a really cool week at the same time. We´ve found a lady that was already reading the Book of Mormon, and has a friend in the Church, All the atheists and Catholics and Christians and Agnostics were there for their appointments, that is a miracle.
 
And, one I see as I sit down to write, I have twice as many emails as usual. In the subject line of one (from a friend from the CCM serving in Chiuahua Mexico) says, I was praying this week and your name popped into my head, and that I should email you. First email from him in about 2 months, very interesting. Super grateful, and a straight miracle for me.  

So you know, it has been a rather difficult week, thanks so much for the email. You are soooo awesome. Nunca olvide que tu eres un misionero poderoso y guapo!   I´m praying for you too man, stay strong and you´re a classy man!

Elder Gee
 
(The Spanish line above says:  Never forget that you are a powerful missionary and handsome).
 

 

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