Wow! That’s quite a bunch of news coming there from the home front. New ward, (not gonna lie that’s a pretty gay name... hi I’m from Pegasus ward hu hu hu... even merlot ward is better, ill deal with it though). That’s sounds like a blast over there on the dive team, I can’t believe that they are already doing scrimmages already and even more that Brigg is a junior... Brighton 2 classes and one on internet? What are they? Ball room dancing and star wars 101? hahahah jk glad you’re doing something.
I never heard about grandma, why didn’t anyone tell me? I know she’s tough but she needs support still the same. Tell here I say hi and will be praying for her. So Jared Larson is Obispo? Wow that’s crazy. I can already tell you your callings. Mom, relief society pres or primary pres. Dad is going with the deacons or 11 year olds for sure. Tell him hi for me, I’ll sure miss Bishop carpenter... those boundaries sound so small to me... um... oh ya the Kelley’s moved back? That’s so awesome, where are they living? I have no idea who the kings are...
Ok, well, enough about you guys I wanna talk about ME! No not really I just thought it sounded funny. We had a decent work week some good new investigators and a sweet open house activity Saturday. The ward is so awesome all we had to do was greet the people they brought and jot down an appointment at the end! There is one recent convert that has about 5 months. His name is Ray Ramirez. He and his family are so awesome; he is executive secretary and baptized one of his friends and his whole family a while ago. Now we are teaching the mom of this friend (called Daniel Sanchez) and she’ll probably get baptized this week. And at the open house Ray brought his mom’s sister and her whole family and his kids godparents. A lot of other members brought friends and neighbors as well. It was a neat event cuz it opened up a lot of questions from the people and I love answering questions. As our President says" Mexico is a culture of don’t ask questions, since a baby parents teach their kids, don’t ask questions, if you do your stupid" and that’s the way it is! So I absolutely love it when people ask instead of saying no it’s all clear. (Just so all you kids know asking questions doesn’t make you stupid it makes you smart). Then Sunday we had ward conference. It was pretty good. I (and everyone else) didn’t understand what the Bishop was trying to say in his talk but it’s all good. The choir was made up the young single adults. And since there are more girls than guys they asked us to help them out. No one knows how to carry a tune and it’s frustrating as heck. Then the piano player just plays the same chord on left hand even when it doesn’t go (isn’t the right key). But it doesn’t seem to bother anyone else, so me neither.
I want to talk a bit more about those young single adults. 5 of them are our ward missionaries and do an awesome job at that but every time a general authority or area seventy talks he just chews out all the single adults. The bishops and stake presidents are all proud but there is a serious problem here in that no one is getting married!! The majority of sealing done is converts. It’s quite a worrying problem here in Mexico. Me and Contreras play around with that a lot reading the scriptures of "ministering angels" and stuff like that. There’s even one sister who is waiting for her visa to go on a mission and has been waiting a long time, My comp straight out told her that God is saying she needs to get married hahaha, the good thing is they are all good sports and take it. At least we have an excuse hahaha.
Well as for the zone... it’s not a zone with high expectations. Bad. In these 4 weeks of august there are only 10 baptisms in the whole zone, We’ve got one week left and I put the goal of reaching 20 for the month. Its reachable cuz we have 6 people with a baptismal date for this week but we are gonna need some faith and miracles to reach it. Will you all help us out?
Today we played basketball in the morning; I’ve gotten a lot better. I’ve learned how to shoot but I am fetching tired! It was fun.
Well I’ve got 38 weeks left in the mission and I’ve been studying one of the 42 principles of doctrine every week. #38 is Eternal Families, last week was #39 Temples and family History Work and I had some pretty good experiences studying the principle. I downloaded the conference addresses and studied three of the talks. I listen to them while reading the Liahona and marked it and make comments. The temple is such an incredible awesome place. Gathering the wheat into the garners as the scriptures say. There is so much protection, and peace found there and in the covenants done. Dad wrote me about the difficulties the saints passed even after Joseph Smith died. What gave most of them the strength and power to move on was the hope and faith they received from being endowed and sealed in the Holy Temple. They knew what they had done, they knew they were keeping the commandments of the Father and had a deep understanding of the Plan of Salvation. That knowledge gives way to the faith which converts itself into the firm anchor that makes us always pressing forward no matter what. And that can also be a powerful blessing to us as well. It doesn’t come free or even at a small cost. The price to prepare, enter and return to the temple is great not to mention the cost of learning and progressing! May we all live worthy to enter the Holy Temple. Even those that still need to wait. Live worthily of a recommend that way when it is time you will be ready. That’s how you prepare. And that will make sure that our lives are in order. And we can receive the desired help from the Lord to really do and receive whatever we need.
May God bless you all. Do the best you can and don’t wear yourself out doing it. There are time and resources for everything the key is diligence. I love you all, take care.
-ELDER SOLOMON
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