Hey!
So the first two big things from tis week are that well
there are two big announcements for Mexico City. So first f all it used to be
like Washington DC where it was a district that wasn’t officially like a city
or a state or part of a state. It was called the distrito federal or the DF but
apparently this last week there was a vote here and the DF officially became a
state, called La Ciudad de Mexico. Which for us is pretty funny because our
mission call says that we are serving in Mexico City but I have literally never
heard that my entire time here, but now that’s our official name.
Also, on another unrelated note, the Mexico City government
decided to just shut off water to the entire city for a week to do repairs. So
Elder Penrod and I are living out of buckets to shower and wash dishes from
water theat we stored up last week. Reminds me of living back in Topilejo haha
but it’s all good.
Also, we got the changes last night and Elder Penrod and I
are staying together here in Churubusco. Our zone is going to go down from 29
missionaries to 27 and we will be getting 7 missionaries new to the zone, so I
am excited to see who they will be tomorrow when we go to the changes to help
President with everything! Elder Penrod and I realized too that he is entering
into his last two changes in the mission so that freaked him out like a ton!
So this week wasn’t nearly as exciting as the last two weeks
but we had an awesome week. One thing that we have been focusing on as mission
is truly uniting together with the members and having more lessons with member
present to the investigators because having that friend, and that extra
testimony just helps SO much when someone is just beginning to know the gospel
of Jesus Christ. This week was the most successful I have had in my entire life
working with members here. We worked with 11 different members this week and
reached the mission goal of having 20 lessons with member present this week. We
also had more lessons this week than I have had in my whole mission with 46
(and that with the fact that we had a lot of things to do to help President
this week like go to every session of stake conference even when all the other
missionaries only go to one...) So there was a lot of success in all of that
this week. We saw the fruits too! America and her daughters got picked up for
church by one of our recent convert families and came to stake conference and
had an awesome time, the girls are so excited to go to primary next week! We
have a lot left to do to be able to help Adan but with time the Lord can change
his heart. Also, with Alejandro and Mirna, we brought a member who is very very
wealthy with us and he just bore to them the strongest testimony about how his
family depends on him, how 15 employees depend on him, but he closes every
Sunday because he knows that without the blessings of the Lord for his
obedience it would be impossible to provide for them. We didn’t even have to
say anything afterwards, they just said, well next week we are going to close
the store! WOOHOO! I love this. Finally, Valeria received a lot of help from
her sisters this week to be able to put a baptismal date. We had some super
powerful lessons with her about repentance and the atonement that really strengthened
every person in the lesson (I think especially Elder Penrod and I). It was a
work filled week, and a hard one, but a rewarding one.
The zone had a great week as well. We had the opportunity to
work with a district leader from Espartaco this week. I went with his companion
named Elder Sanchez and it was super cool. He is newer to the mission, but is
super excited to be here and get the work done as the Lord wants. Yesterday we
had a special meeting where Elder Penrod and I trained all of the district
leaders from the zone about how to give better district meetings to really make
them an environment of learning through the spirit. We focused on the
difference between teaching like a school teacher, and teaching like we should
as missionaries, it was a spiritual experience for us, I am so glad that the
Spirit directed us to do that, we didn’t know how it was going to turn out but
it was definitely worth it.
Well that’s all from here this week,
Elder Stout
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