Hola Everyone:
Well, this week wasn’t really all that interesting so today’s
letter is going to be pretty short! We
did find one new investigator who's name is Adol. He met with the missionaries 3 years ago and apparently,
they taught him but for some reason things didn’t go very well with them. He is 20 years old and has agreed to start
the discussions over with us. When we
went over to teach him, his Mother and Sister were there and everything went
pretty good with Adol but his sister was really ticked about something and
questioned the fact that there is an afterlife. She went off on us for a while
and then left to go out and have a cigarette.
His Mom also sort of went off on us a little because I guess the
previous missionaries were not that great or something so I guess we took the
punishment for that! Anyway, we set up
another appointment with him but he wants to meet us at the Church because of
how things went at his house!
Also, this past week, we had an appointment to teach Daphne
and Xochit the second discussion (the Plan of Salvation) which we did in two
parts because it is sort of hard to understand.
It is really fun to teach them because we like them and they like us and
you don’t have to be as serious with them since they are younger and are not
trying to argue scriptures with us like a lot of people. Anyway, things are going really good with
them and we have an appointment for the 3rd discussion and we have
set a Baptismal date with them for the 23rd of December.
Noe was supposed to have a Baptismal date for 10 November
but he has still not come back in town and honestly, I don’t know for sure what
is going on with him. I am just hoping he comes back in town soon so we can
keep teaching him. So, that is the status of our investigators, we have received
a few more reference contacts that we are going to go and visit this week as
well.
So, on Thursday, we had Zone Conference with the President
and we talked about our Mission’s initiative of “Ironman 212” which is
basically trying to get 212 baptisms this month and our Zone is leading in that
effort so yea that is pretty good and he was really happy about that and told
us that we were all doing a really good job.
The pictures I have for today are from that Zone Conference! Anyway, our Mission is on track to meet our
goal of 212 baptisms. I have my next
interview with the President on Tuesday this week! Also, at Zone Conference, he told us that we
are going to be meeting our New Mission President in December which I thought
was pretty weird. But I guess I will
know who my new Mission President is going to be in December and whether or not
he is White or Latino!
Sunday, all of Mexico had a special meeting with Elder
Rasband and a few others and they mainly talked about reading the Book of
Mormon and just sticking to the basics of being a member of the Church. Just like people in the United States, people
here struggle in trying to just do the basic principles of the Gospel. It was a good meeting but I also learned that
they are going to have a special Stake Conference on December 1st
and they are going to be making some changes with the Wards and Zones of our
Mission.
So, when I first got here to Tecamac, my Mom commented on
how close to Mexico City I was. In fact,
when we go to get on a bus to go to our Mission Home in Pachuca, we have to go
to the bus stop in the East Mexico City Mission, we are literally that close! We have to be careful where we go because the
streets are so close to the other mission.
Anyway, I guess they are going to be combining this Area into the East
Mexico City Mission which is pretty cool because that means my Companion and I are
the last missionaries from the Pachuca mission to serve here in the Montes Ward. Anyway, we don’t know when that is going to
happen but it could be the first week in December but I think they will wait
until the January changes.
Everything else is going pretty good and I am still studying
Spanish really hard and it is getting better every day. I really love being a Missionary and love serving
the people of Mexico!
Love
Elder Fawcett
Pictures From Zone Conference
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