Wow, it is already the starting of another week! So, this past week was the first week of the new Change and we have a lot of new young missionaries in our District. One of the older Elders that is new to my District is the other Elder Fausett which is pretty cool and I have a picture with him. So, for most of the week, we have been doing a lot of contacting and fortunately, we have also found a lot of new investigators to teach!
Karla is one lady we found and she has a pretty hard life right now. Her Mom is dying with stage 4 ovarian cancer. We were right in the middle of teaching her about the Plan of Salvation when she got a call and had to go and see her Mom in the hospital. We have another appointment with her this week and she seems really interested!
Some of the other people we are teaching includes the Rangel family that we have had a few lessons with and they are really cool. They are not married which is sort of a problem and they have a daughter and they have some word of wisdom issues. We are working with them to start coming to church with us and this next week. We have taught them the first 2 discussions and have another appointment with them on Friday. We have also been teaching Nie who lives in our neighborhood. We have taught her 3 lessons and are not going to teach her anymore until she comes to church with us. So, we are keeping our fingers crossed that she will come this week so we can continue teaching her.
Teresa and Jorge are continuing to come to church every week and they are really doing great. Honestly, they are probably the best converts I have had and are really super strong members. Francisco, I think is also going to be a great member of the Church and he is scheduled to be baptized this coming week. If you remember, he is the investigator that we have been teaching that is in another Ward’s boundaries but doesn’t feel welcome over there so we have been teaching him. So, we are going to baptize him into the Pravi Ward which is the Ward where he lives, but he can figure out which Ward he wants to attend after that! In teaching Francisco, it has really been a miracle because he has smoked for like 40 years, but has just been able to give it up completely!
This week I got to go on inner cameos with my MTC buddy Elder Williams and he is honestly having a pretty hard time right now. He has been pretty sick and had to go to the hospital for 3 days. He had been throwing up blood and they found that he had 2 huge ulcers in his stomach. As missionaries, they give us these little cards to flash at the hospital if we have to go there and they treat us like rich people which is pretty good! So, we contacted for a little while and then went and had lunch. He threw up afterwards but all I saw was food so I think his ulcers have scabbed over but I took him back to our apartment to lay down for a while anyway. He has to really watch what he eats and wants for everything to just get better because they have a rule in our mission that if you are in the hospital for more than 6 days in a single month, they will send you home and he doesn’t want that to happen!
So, to end with this week, I got a phone call from the Mission Office this afternoon while my Comp and I were taking a little break from the heat. I guess there are a bunch of American’s coming to the Area next week for a meeting or conference of some sort and they have asked us to come over and help translate for them. I haven’t used my Spanish like that yet so that should be a pretty different experience! Anyway, it is really getting hot here, but I still really love being here and serving the people of Mexico. I hope everyone has a great week!
Love,
Elder Fawcett
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