Queridos amigos,
I was informed that my last mail felt a little rushed. X) This week, I have a bit more time to tell you all what's goin' down.
LECCIÓN DE LA SEMANA: When you lead, lead for DESIRE. If you try to lead people directly to an action, it's likely that they´re not going to follow through.
This is big in the mission. A lot of times, we're tempted to think someone who smokes needs to hear about the Word of Wisdom, and someone living with a partner unmarried The Law of Chastity. But it's not always so.
This week, we visited Hno. Efraín and Hna. Ana. He´s a less-active member and she's an investigator. They need to get married, but instead of teaching the Law of Chastity, we decided to show them a cute little video called "Expressions of Love," where a bunch of couples recite the dorky nothings that they do to pass time together. It was actually perfect. They were smiling the whole time, and at the end of the video they were VISIBLY more committed to get married and pursue their goal to be sealed in the temple. THEY HAVE THE GANAS, YO!
They also had a friend there, and HE was super interested to hear from us after the video!
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We went on splits with the assistants! It was awesome (and unplanned - they stayed on the bus too long and ended up in our area). I went with Elder Tejeda, because Elder Carlson thought we would confuse the world with our names (I agree, but I thought it would be kinda fun). We visited lots of people in a really short period of time. He talks fast, but he´s really nice and told me I speak the language well. :)
We suggested to President Reynoso that a young women from the ward be put in as a temporary missionary and he agreed! The young woman, Adela, was super grateful because she's in the process of filling out her papers but it's taking a lot of time because she´s got health problems. She was a little discouraged, but we were able to set her up for at least one transfer.
We visited Alejandro and Natalia (less-active and non-member, respectively) and had a great lesson about families and the temple! Also, their dog vomitted on the floor in front of us while we were starting.... woo.
I started reading Our Heritage. I'm actually really enjoying the history of the Church. It struck me how faithful the Saints were in the beginning. They were willing to sacrifice their homes, their time, their LIVES to follow the Prophet. What changed, guys?? That's a joke - I know you're all as faithful as the Pope (Mormon style) ;D.
We had EIGHT investigators attend church! I FEEEL GOOD (nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh). It was wonderful to see some of them for the SECOND time in a row keeping their commitments. Now, here's to a lifetime of attendance!! Yeah!
We really really REALLY didn't have many new investigators this week.... we think God's sending us a message that we need to work with less-actives more, because we found about five families (by pure miracles) that we didn't know existed that are members.
That's all folks! I´m as happy as Bugs Bunny here in the best mission in the world. While you're all going about your daily lives this week, remember to pray to your Heavenly Father and tell him what's goin' on - your worries, fears, hopes and dreams. He's more than happy to help you.
Love,
Elder Carson
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I was informed that my last mail felt a little rushed. X) This week, I have a bit more time to tell you all what's goin' down.
LECCIÓN DE LA SEMANA: When you lead, lead for DESIRE. If you try to lead people directly to an action, it's likely that they´re not going to follow through.
This is big in the mission. A lot of times, we're tempted to think someone who smokes needs to hear about the Word of Wisdom, and someone living with a partner unmarried The Law of Chastity. But it's not always so.
This week, we visited Hno. Efraín and Hna. Ana. He´s a less-active member and she's an investigator. They need to get married, but instead of teaching the Law of Chastity, we decided to show them a cute little video called "Expressions of Love," where a bunch of couples recite the dorky nothings that they do to pass time together. It was actually perfect. They were smiling the whole time, and at the end of the video they were VISIBLY more committed to get married and pursue their goal to be sealed in the temple. THEY HAVE THE GANAS, YO!
They also had a friend there, and HE was super interested to hear from us after the video!
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We went on splits with the assistants! It was awesome (and unplanned - they stayed on the bus too long and ended up in our area). I went with Elder Tejeda, because Elder Carlson thought we would confuse the world with our names (I agree, but I thought it would be kinda fun). We visited lots of people in a really short period of time. He talks fast, but he´s really nice and told me I speak the language well. :)
We suggested to President Reynoso that a young women from the ward be put in as a temporary missionary and he agreed! The young woman, Adela, was super grateful because she's in the process of filling out her papers but it's taking a lot of time because she´s got health problems. She was a little discouraged, but we were able to set her up for at least one transfer.
We visited Alejandro and Natalia (less-active and non-member, respectively) and had a great lesson about families and the temple! Also, their dog vomitted on the floor in front of us while we were starting.... woo.
I started reading Our Heritage. I'm actually really enjoying the history of the Church. It struck me how faithful the Saints were in the beginning. They were willing to sacrifice their homes, their time, their LIVES to follow the Prophet. What changed, guys?? That's a joke - I know you're all as faithful as the Pope (Mormon style) ;D.
We had EIGHT investigators attend church! I FEEEL GOOD (nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh). It was wonderful to see some of them for the SECOND time in a row keeping their commitments. Now, here's to a lifetime of attendance!! Yeah!
We really really REALLY didn't have many new investigators this week.... we think God's sending us a message that we need to work with less-actives more, because we found about five families (by pure miracles) that we didn't know existed that are members.
That's all folks! I´m as happy as Bugs Bunny here in the best mission in the world. While you're all going about your daily lives this week, remember to pray to your Heavenly Father and tell him what's goin' on - your worries, fears, hopes and dreams. He's more than happy to help you.
Love,
Elder Carson
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Mexican
styyyyyyyyllllleeeee. We call it Flow. Faith without flow is dead.
Jeremías got baptized
(my amigo and investigator from Chac Mool)!! We got to see him because Elder
Gallegos did the interview.
When a cloud gives
birth to a star...
Then the star is to
close to the Earth and a house burns down.
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