Hey all,
So first of all, winter has arrived to Topilejo! Oh my gosh
it is so cold!!! One member told us that it hasn’t gotten above 45 yet this
week, we are just freezing to death, but its way better than the heat that I was
in 6 months ago in Iztapalapa! But seriously we are all bundled up every day.
On top of all that, for some reason the rainy season that was supposed to end
in September decided to come back and so that made the cold a little bit worse.
But, its only gonna get colder so woohoo!
So, after all that happened with the health of Elder Riggs,
well as far as I know he is still here in the mission. We went down to the
offices on Wednesday and he right now is in a trio with the assistants so that
he can go to the hospital whenever he needs to for checkups and stuff like
that, and its still not a 100% sure if he is going to stick it out here or not,
but the odds are looking a lot better than they were a week ago. This Wednesday
I received my new comp, Elder Bojorquez! He has about 4 months in the mission,
he got here on change after Elder Hilario, and he actually started in the
district right next to me in Iztapalapa so I already knew him! He is super
awesome, he is from Merida, Yucatan, Mexico, and is a convert of only a year
and a half and the only member of his family. He has a super strong testimony
and i am super pumped to work with him!
This week we had a lot of success finding new investigators
again. We did a ton of contacting because Elder Bojorquez loves to do it, which
is super awesome because it has been a long time since I have been with a comp
that likes to contact. So, we found some new people. The two coolest ones that
we found were two part member families. First of all, there’s this guy named
Carols Orozco who is less active and we just found out that he has cancer, so
we went to visit him and see if there was anything that we could do to help
him, and while we did that we got to know his wife Edith Peña and she is super
awesome!! She accepted baptism with a date in the very first lesson, and seems
super excited. Her husband is an amazing man too with a strong testimony that
really wants to come back to the church. 
After that, we were contacting this week and we found a man
crying on the side of the road and it turned out to be Jose Luis Villanueava
who is another less active, he has made some bad decisions recently and opened
up for help. We ended up going to his house and teaching his family and his
daughter has also accepted a baptismal date. So, we are loving it right now up
here!
This last week we had our quarterly interviews with
President Meacham and I had an awesome one. We talked for a long time about the
importance of revelation and how we truly need to do all that we can to serve
the Lord because this is literally our only shot to do it. I just love talking
to him because he shares my excitement for missionary work, and sometimes it
just makes me really sad that not all missionaries can feel this same way and
love the work. But, I know that President Meacham will be able to help all the missionaries
in our mission to increase their faith, obedience, and diligence!
Well, I hope that you have a great week!
Elder Stout
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