Week 85 - Times Are Changing

Hola Everyone:

Well this week has really been a bit long, but we have been doing our best to keep busy and do the best that we can.  We have been trying to do a lot of contacting since I was not in the Area for the past 2 weeks.  Honestly, it sort of feels like I am starting the Area over again and we have just started contacting each of the houses in the Area.  We have found a few people that we have started to teach, but not really anyone that has advanced that far to mention.  As you can probably tell by my picture for the week with my Companion, we got a little sunburned but I guess it is all good!

We had another lesson with Marcela and Abby this past week. They are still doing really well and progressing towards their baptism in the next few weeks.  We taught them a lesson on Commandments and as I said, it went really well.

As for other stuff going on this past week, just like at home, the Coronavirus is sort of getting to be a big thing down here. Honestly with the Church closed to members, it is kind of hard to teach people when we cannot take them to Sacrament meetings on Sunday.  We have not been getting a lot of information on how things are going to change for us because of the virus, but I have a leadership meeting with the President tomorrow so hopefully I will learn a little more about what is going on.  Regardless of what happens, we are working our hardest at trying to find people to teach and serve.  Compared to the first of my mission, I can sure tell that the world has changed!

I hope everyone at home stays healthy and safe.  I love serving the people of Mexico!

Love

Elder Fawcett

Sunburned Elder Mansilla and Fawcett

Week 84 - Back With a Native!

Hola Everyone:

Well, this past week has really gone by fast!  We did a lot of work in the Loreto Area so my Area was sort of ignored during the week.  But it was really a good week!  As I told you last week, we had an appointment with the Mission President and the Bishop of the Loreto Ward.  The Bishop wanted to expand the missionary effort in the Area and wanted more missionaries assigned here.  After the meeting, President Maldonado agreed that it would be a good thing to put more missionaries in there so that will be happening with the changes today.

So, speaking of Changes, I got my new companion assigned to me today. His name is Elder Mansilla from Chile.  I will get a picture of him for next week.  He has been out for about a year and honestly I am excited to be with a native again.  I have really been working hard on making my Spanish perfect before I get home and it honestly is a little harder when you comp is from the States!  I have noticed that you lose a little bit of your Spanish when you are with another Gringo!

Well, I indicated that we didn’t do a lot of contacting in my area this past week, but we were able to teach Maricela and Abby leccion 3.  They are really doing great and we were supposed to have their baptism this past week, but they want to have some of their family members there so we moved the date back to Abril 11 to accommodate that.  We have other people in the area that we are teaching, but no one that has advanced very far. So, I will tell you about them when they start progressing.

Well, I am really looking forward to this next cycle with my new Companion.  I am hoping that things will really start going great!  Although I have avoided it up to this point, my Mission President asked me if I would be the District Leader in the Area so that I can help get the new missionaries established in the new Area for the Loreto Ward.  It is in the Mining District so that should be pretty cool and I look forward to helping them get that Area going.

Well, I hope everyone stays healthy and has a great week.

Love

Elder Fawcett

Elders Fawcett and Stacey with Loreto Ward Member

Elder Fawcett and Loreto Ward Member

Pacuca City Sign

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Week 83 - Christo Rey

Hola Everyone:

Well, this week have gone by pretty fast and has been really good!  The Area I am splitting my time up with is called Loreto and it has a lot of mountains and hills in it. So, we have been doing a lot of climbing up and down this week. It has been pretty tiring! The two Elders I am in a threesome with are Elders Aquirre from Honduras and Stacy from Utah. They like to work hard so we are getting along great and having a fun time together!

So, next week is changes and I will finally be getting my own companion, but it is sort of up in the air where I will be assigned!  The Bishop here in the Loreto Ward wants to have a 2nd set of missionaries assigned here so who knows if I will go back to my old area or end up staying here!  We have a meeting to talk to the Mission President about it tomorrow so maybe I will get some sort of idea but who knows.

As far as my Area goes, I had another baptism this past Saturday of Daniela.  It went over really well and as always; the spirit was really strong and the whole experience sort of made my entire week.  Maricela and Abbey are still progressing really well and they are still set to have their baptisms on the 14 of March which is 2 weeks.  As for new people to teach in my Area, we honestly have not had much time to find anybody since we have been spending a lot of time bouncing back and forth between the 2 areas.

So, I know everyone has been hearing about the Coronavirus back home, well we have been hearing a lot about it here as well. People in our Area are starting to sort of freak out about it because there have been confirmed cases in my mission and Area.  We have been told to watch out for ourselves, but we will have to see what happens with all of that.

So today for P-day, we actually got permission to go out and do something!  We went to the Christo Rey which is in our area and it was a great hike and it was a pretty good day to get out for a while.  The Statue is really big and it was really cool to go there today and no one else was there except for us.

Well, I hope everyone has a great week and stays healthy and safe!

Love

Elder Fawcett

Elder Fawcett and Daniella

Daniella and Ward Members

Hills we Hike

Elders Fawcett, Stacy and Aquirre

Lesson Elder Aquirre and I Taught

Slimming Down

Heading Up

Hike Begins

Cristus Rex

Almost There

I Represent the Savior!

Size Comparison

City From Cristo Rey