Hey all!
Well first of all a very happy December and Christmas season
to all! I know that the Christmas season will be an extra special one to be on the
mission during because it’s just so easy to remember Jesus Christ during this
time of year! This week absolutely went flying by! I am going to try and
remember all that went down!
We had a super cool district meeting last week where we
talked about the importance of talking with everyone. We played a game where I
had a chocolate bar and I went and hid and everyone had to look for me, the 1st
time they couldn’t find me. The second time I yelled and they all found me super
fast. When we got to talking about it, someone said ´´well that was dumb, why didn’t
you talk the first time, we couldn’t find you!´´ and I said ´´well, that’s
exactly the point! There are people out there looking for the gospel that don’t
know where to find it, and they aren’t going to find it because we aren’t
opening our mouths! It was super cool! We also made a contest to see who could
contact more people that would accept to listen to our message this week. The
loser had to clean the whole house...Well today Elder Bojorquez and I spent the
whole morning cleaning the whole house because Elder Bautista and Elder Pech
beat us out 26-25! But, this week will be different!
Also, on Wednesday we had intercambios with our zone leaders
and it was super fun! I was with Elder Crocket, and he’s just awesome! We had a
great time in San Pedro 1, we had a super successful day, I learned a lot from
the guy, he’s just awesome!
This Saturday and Sunday were cool too because we had out
stake conference. The Saturday night session was pretty good but nothing amazing.
Sunday literally was one of the most spiritual meetings that I have attended to
in my life. The Hermana Mecham gave a super cool talk that focused on
missionaries and members working together and kind of got after them for not
looking to be the friends of converts more! We also had a 70 here with us, and
he just gave an incredible talk on obedience. Pretty much the whole talk
centered on the stupidity of disobedience to the commandments. He talked about
how when we took upon us the name of Christ that we signed away our agency and
that we cannot afford to come short on what He asks of us. He talked about how
too many people think that its hard or that it’s a sacrifice to keep the
commandments. Then he gave us a powerful illustration of the atonement of Christ
and said that was a sacrifice, paying tithing is not a sacrifice. Just a bunch
of super cool things about how really wanting to obey God is the only important
thing!
Lastly, we had a super successful week in the district. We
have been working super hard to reach the goal that President had put for us to
teach 40 lessons per week and not going to lie, I honestly thought it was
impossible, our first week in Topilejo we had 25 between the 2 companionships.
But, this last week we got super excited in our district meeting and we were
just like, yeah this is the week, let’s go! We ended up getting 81 as a
district 40 from one companionship and 41 from the other! A branch in the
middle of nowhere was able to find more people to teach than some of the big
packed wards, that was awesome!
Pictures: Last week for pday we ran into Elder Herrera who
is now an RM and got to eat pizzas with him! Elder Pech and I suffering the
cold at the very highest point of the area. And, Cesar a less active teaching
me how to fix tires!
Best wishes to all,
Elder Stout
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