Ay, papanwa!

Hey everyone,

            How is life Queen Creek!? Hope good. Sounds like it. I laughed about the boys getting dinner ready. Mom always made me prepare dinner so  I would be ready for the mission. Haha… all I needed to know was egg sandwiches and cereal... And Dad taught me both of those!!!! Anyway its good for them to do it and to give mom a break as well;) Someone tell Dad to cool down and not work so long of days. There is plenty of time for everything. Remember Mosiah 4:27. And mom, do your part! Don’t be so picky ;)

 OK, well here in Cuautepec everything is good. We had very little time to work in the area this week. Tuesday we had the transfers, which took up half the day. Wednesday a meeting with the zone which lasted till about 12, later, at about 6 took off to the offices for the zl council. Started at 9 am Thursday and ended the same day at 9 pm. We had to stay there over night again. And after traveling home in the morning, we only had the rest of the day and Saturday to work. The rainy season started up again. It rains every afternoon. And hard! All week long we had luck of being in a house when it started. Friday we didn’t have luck... We were about 20 minutes away from our destination when it started. We hid for about 2 minutes and said, oh well... We got soaked to the bone. Got to the house and the sister opened the door with two towels... We taught the lesson (luckily our scriptures didn’t get wet.)  Got to our house, changed fast and, lets go... Luckily we didn’t get sick... I was fully expecting it. Well, that and Wednesday night in the offices we played basketball in the freezing rain for like 2 hours (out of pride.)

 Ok, well, on to the spiritual part of the lesson (I'm tired of writing....)  The council was super good. The President started by reading in 2 Nephi 1. He always reads in the scriptures and explains everything to us. But we got to verse 21 and talked for hours about being men and being united. One of the main focuses was about unity in the companionship. But the part I loved best was talking about the hope. How it is much more than trusting God will fulfill his promises. In  “Preach My Gospel” it talks about how it is shown or manifest by tranquility, optimism, excitement and patient endurance. As missionaries it’s not necessary that we go crazy trying to do it all and wearing out our bodies. There is time for everything. There are so many who knock doors and contact people all day long all month long and get so frustrated because they can’t baptize. There has to be more relax. Visit inactives, visit old investigators, sit down and plan, sit down and plan out stuff. I'm having a hard time explaining it but we have to be calm and optimistic. That is true hope. Everything has its order. The true success is found in the PROCESS. If there is a problem in the results one must focus on the process and not result. Eliminate the problems right when they come up. With better processes come better results.

 I love you all so much. Take care.

 -ELDER SOLOMON