Hey
all!
Well
it sounds like you all had a great thanksgiving week! Just wanted to send
another shout out and let you all know how very thankful I am for you that you
all support me here in my mission, and that I love you so much!
This
week we had three cool experiences. First of all on Tuesday Socorro got
baptized! It was an awesome experience, it was kind of a low key baptism
because well it was a Tuesday and so like literally no one could come, but she
invited a ton of family and friends and it worked out super well. They all felt
the spirit super strong, and we all did too. Also, President Mecham and Sister
Mecham both came to this baptism and it was the first time they have come in my
whole mission. There, like always seems to happen in Topilejo, were some pretty
cringe worthy moments as well. First of all, the 1st counselor of
the branch presidency did the ordinance and well he told us that he had
literally baptized half of the branch so we weren’t too worried, until we opened
up the doors for the baptism and it looked more like they were going to dance
the salsa or get baptized Alma style (see Mosiah 18 23) we had to help him out
for like 2 minutes to get the hands and everything right, so that was kind of
embarrassing. Then, Socorro gave a very powerful testimony. But, the thing is
she is a nurse so she has a different vocab than we have, and that added to the
fact that her strongest testimony was of the law of chastity left my face
pretty red after her testimony… But, the only thing that matters is that it was
a spiritual experience for her and for her family members as well!
Second,
on Friday we had a zone conference that was super cool! We talked a lot about
love, the importance of the members, the Lords elect servants and our ability
to open our mouth and teach everyone! I left super excited to just get to work
and get it done!
Thirdly,
this Saturday we had a zone attack in Topilejo. It’s something that we have
been planning for a while that was President Mecham’s idea. The branch/ward
puts together a list of all the people that they would like to visit and then
all of the missionaries from the whole zone go to that area and we do divisions
with the members of the ward/branch. So on Saturday it was our turn and it was
super cool! We didn’t have enough members so I ended up going with President
and Sister Mecham and it was incredible to see how President expressed his love
to people that he had literally never met. We helped some less actives express
why they aren’t coming to church anymore and we even found some new
investigators together, it was super cool to be able to work with them.
Bonus:
Yesterday we had the zone attack in San Pedro 1, my old area. So, I got to go
down and I got put in a group with Estefan y Gaspar Lino from one of my
favorite families ever. We also went and visited Alicia Garcia who sadly has
fallen away recently because she started working on Sundays but it was good to
be able to go and relive her baptism and try to encourage her to come back, it
was a pretty incredible week!
Elder
Stout
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