Hey all,
This week was a great week as always! Not that much happened
it seemed like, even though it was an 8 day week from the last time I wrote,
(Side Note: NEXT WEEK MY PDAY WILL BE WEDNESDAY, I am sorry for all of the changes
but we have a zone conference next Tuesday, and so the Assistants told Elder
Penrod and I that we could change our pday to Wednesday so that we have more
than like 2 hours to do everything). So first of all, please be praying for me,
because I am pretty nervous to give the zone training, we are going to be there
for 6 hours, and we are in charge of all of it. We asked President and the Assistants
to teach as well, but the majority of the time we are going to be teaching, and
well it’ll be a lot different than giving a one hour district meeting to 4
people, so please be praying for me, especially next Tuesday so that the Spirit
can be with us, and we can give the message that the missionaries in the
Churubusco zone need.
So the coolest part of this last week for work was Sunday.
Elder Penrod and I have talked about how pretty much the whole mission Sunday
has been one of the hardest days for us, because there are always so many
people who say that they are going to come to church, and well so many of those
promises are empty because we just sit there in church waiting and waiting and
well the majority never come (that’s how we know who the Lords elect are, but it’s
still hard). But this week, we had a ton of investigators there at church!
America and her daughters (in the picture) came and actually beat us to the
chapel. Also, Alejandro’s son, Alex came with us, and his parents wanted to be
there so bad, but they were dealing with sick kids at home. Valeria was there
(and also told us that she feels like she is almost ready for baptism). And a
new investigator was there named Jaqueline! 
Jacqueline was a miracle this week. We have been teaching
her family forever, they are all less active members, well her in laws and her
husband. And they came this week to get their new baby blessed, and it was the
first time they had come in years. Afterwards, they commented to us, the
powerful spirit that they had felt to hear the words of a blessing from the
Lord, and her family said they won’t miss another Sunday, and she, with tears
in her eyes, asked us when is the soonest that she can get baptized. Please
pray for the Heredia family so that they can keep these feelings with them and
keep coming to church.
A cool thing at the end of church, America comes up to us
with a tithing envelope and asked us, “what do I do with this?” We started
explaining to her what tithing is and stuff like that, but she said, no no no I
already know that, after the testimonies, I looked it up in the scriptures.
This IS my tithing, I want to pay it. What an incredible testimony building
experience for me, to see how the spirit is touching her heart and converting
her to the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Another cool thing that Elder Penrod and I did, was one
morning we got up super early, and instead of our normal exercise we ran up to
the top of the Cerro de la Estrella, one of the best known hills in Mexico
City, its right behind our area, and took us almost an hour to get up, but it
was so worth it!
Well that’s a wrap!
Have a great week,
Elder Stout
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