October 5, 2009

Well, two awesome messages, thank you for writing, I love to hear your voices even though it´s a pirated copy I´m just running through my head as I read. I really do love you both and am grateful for the example that you set me. I already forgot most of what I just read in your two letters and there was nothing bolded so I´m assuming to write whatever I feel like. Lol. I was SUPER excited for today, but the days already over as 5 o´clock rolls around just an hour ago we left the house at 1 o´clock. 1-5, BOOM! Gone, I´m going to make a few phone calls and exhort my converts to repentance. No, i just want to hear from them, lol. Well the work continues here, a lot of late nights unfortunately, and I feel like as fast it went by it went by slowly too, just because I look back and all of what has hapened was just this week! UGH! This was a tough week. Tough just for time, get this. Monday we have a meeting and the new elders are coming in, so there goes Monday afternoon, Tuesday morning we go with the new elders to Sayula to show them their area and come back, pack and head to Guadalajara for Zone Leader Capacitation. We´re there Tuesday afternoon, well got their late, then all of Wednesday and had an adventure then, lol. THen left Thursday morning to get back in time for the lunch appointment, then we planned. Worked Friday then COnference on Sat. and Sun. Lol. So...yeah, it was busy.
Here´s the good stuff though, we had our first lesson with Jorge this last Sunday, taught him lesson 1, we met him week one here at a bus stop and could never find him. Finally taught him and came back...some day entre semana. Like Friday moning, yeah it was Friday morning, we talked to him and his mom is Super Catholic Woman, she even has her own comic book. On the same page of the comic book is Jorge! The catholic mom starts to tell him, the mormons this the mormons that...blahblah, nag nag, apostasy apostasy *cough* I don´t know what I´m talking about *cough*. He responds, they don´t worship Joseph Smith he was just an instrument in bringing about the restoration of the church of Christ, he was a prophet and translated the Book of Mormon, which is true.
Let´s just say that it was awesome. After all that, he said he still hasn´t gotten an answer to his prayer, we´ll work with that. lol. We´re working with he and his 3 sons. Axel, Manuel and Israel. He´s separated and the wife is poking around with other men.
We also have Catalina y her daughter... i forgot her name. But they´re references de la Hna. MariKarmen, we went with the Hna. and they were all just sitting inside and kind of looking at us awkwardly, my mouth just opened. A conversation about the business (they own a hair salon) and the times commenced. Later I felt the impression, now, talk about he gospel, change it. I asked about The Book of Mormon that they were given earlier by the Hna. (Hernmana), I don´t remember how i transitioned it, but we explained with the Hermana how the book came around, about God´s love for us, His prophets, Christ´s church, the Great Apostasy and the Restoration. Challenging them to read a chapter in the book of mormon, Alma 7 and ask God of it´s divinity. I know they did it and I´m so excited to go back. The Hermana gave firm, strong testimony. It was amazing. They like to do stuff on Sunday but after we explain the Sabbath Holy and to keep it holy she´ll be ok. Theyre our heavy hitters and we have a few others. I hope to make it more, there is no excuse to not baptize more, and to not reactivate more.
Actualy I wanted to ask Dad about that, Dad how can I help the less active members¿? How can I show more love to them, and to our investigatores? We have an invetsigator that believes us but doesn´t want to be committed doesn´t want to be baptized for that. Says, well what if later I don´t want to go to your church? How can we explain to her? Well that´s my time, but I´ll talk to you soon!
Tell the guys I love them. Rena too! Lol,I was going to make it a surprise and send you a package but I think knowing you don´t know, I postpone and postpone and postpone it, so now I´m going to tell you so I know you´re waiting on it, then I´ll have to do it! Lol.
Well that´s the jist of it. Conference was amazing though I couldn´t pay attention all of Sunday. Ugh, lol. Well I love you and talk to you soon!
-Jake