Hola Everyone: Well, this week has been muy loco!! My Companion, Elder Van decided to go back home to Nebraska this week because he has been suffering with some issues with his stomach. He has only been out on his mission for about six months so he decided that rather than stay and deal with it for 18 more months, he would go home and get it fixed and then go back out. With my Comp being gone, I have been working super hard to keep everything moving along in good shape in my Area. When he first left, which happened pretty fast, I was put with my Zone Leaders which live pretty far from my Area, so we were pretty much all over the city try to work both Areas at the same time. Today, I was put in with two of the Elders in my District so they are closer to my Area, but it is still pretty hard trying to work two different Areas during the day. The good thing is that I will only have to be in a threesome until March 9th at changes then I should go back to my Area with a new Companion. So outside of all of the craziness this week, we were able to have the Baptism for Carlos. He was really happy to be baptized and the day went really well. He asked me to baptize him which was a really awesome experience for me. Daniella has also asked me to baptize her this coming week at her baptism, so that is something that I am really looking forward to. Also, this past week, I met with Maricela and Abby and taught them a lesson and got them to commit to a date of March 14 for their baptism. Honestly, it is great to be working in an Area where the work is progressing pretty well. The members are really supportive and it really does make the days go by a lot better to have success after being in so many areas where the work has not been moving along so well! Today, I got my Christmas package from the Willow Brook Ward as you can see in my pictures! Thanks to everyone who wrote to me and I love the apron! It took a little while to get here, but this week is my Birthday so I will just count it as my birthday present! Anyway, I hope everyone has a great week! I know it will be a busy one for me since we have to really run while working two areas at the same time! Love Elder Fawcett
My Apron from the Home Ward!
Scorpion I Found Cleaning the Apartment!
Also Found This Cleaning
Neighbor's Garbage
Elder Fawcett and Carlos
Elders Stacey, Agguire, Fawcett Bolanos and Carlos
Hola Everyone: This week has been pretty decent overall! We have been working a lot with the investigators we have so it has gone by pretty fast. Carlos is scheduled for baptism this coming week so we have been working a lot with him to make sure that he is ready for his interview and everything this week. We feel like he is pretty much ready to go and we are hoping that everything goes well and he can be baptized on Saturday. As for Daniella, we taught her again this past week and it went really well. She accepted a baptismal date for the 29th of February which is only 2 weeks away so we are going to be working a lot with her to make sure that she gets all of the lessons and is ready to go for next week on Saturday. Two other people that we have been working with are Marcela y su hija Abby (Marcela and her daughter Abby). Everything is also going really good with them and we plan on teaching them again and will be asking them to accept a date of 7 March for baptism. That will be 3 weeks in a row and we are super happy about that so I am just hoping that everything goes well. Other than teaching, we had our Stake Conference and Zone Conference this past week and both of those meetings were really good and we had good speakers at both of those. It is nice to get together in meetings like those and see some of the other missionaries in the mission and catchup with old Comps. Well other than that, I don’t have much else to say other than it is starting to get really hot down here already. I didn’t get a winter like all of you did, it seems like down here we skip over Winter and pretty much most of Spring and Fall! I hope everyone has a great week! Love Elder Fawcett
This past week has really been a good one! We are working really hard and it is honestly great to be back into an area where the people are more receptive and the Ward really helps us out. We talked to a lot of people and had a lot of lessons but no real golden ones this week, but at least we a have been finding people to teach!
We did have a really good visit with Carlos this past week and he is continuing to do really well. I don’t think I told you last week, but he was a referral from the Mexico City Temple Visitor’s Center so we have been talking to the Sister Missionaries from there a little bit about his progress. He has been coming to Church frequently and is progressing pretty well. We taught him about tithing this past week and he accepted that pretty well. Also, we set up a baptismal date with him for 22 February so we are happy about that! As for Daniella, we were not able to visit with her, but we are hoping to visit with her this coming week. She is also progressing and we are hoping to get a Baptismal date set up with her soon. We also have a few other people that we are teaching, but I will talk more about them next week after we visit with them a few more times!
On P-Day, we went to the Pachuca Monumental Clock Tower which is in our area and it was really cool to see. The clock was built around 1910 to commemorate the Centennial of the Independence of Mexico. The machinery inside the clock are identical to the ones that are inside of Big Ben in London. The clock tower itself is about 140 feet tall and there was a person at the tower that gave us a really cool tour inside. I was a little slow in turning on my camera video, but it gives you the general sound!
Anyway, this coming week is going to be a really busy one for us. We have Zone Meeting and Stake Conference so it should be really busy!
Hola Everyone: Well, this week has been a pretty good one! I have been getting to know my new area and honestly it is good to be back into a “good” area again. People on the street sort of just blow us off as we try to talk to them, but the members of the Ward are more active in helping us to teach so that is really a good thing! Honestly, it is a pretty good Ward and I am trying to get close to the members. I am hoping that we can have some success here. As for investigators, we are currently teaching two that are both member referrals. The first one is Carlos whose Mom is a recent convert and he has already been to Church 3 times with her in the past. This past week, we taught him the Law of Chastity and that went really well. I think that this next Tuesday, we will probably try and put a date on him on. Our other really good investigator is Daniella. She is 12 years old and her Mother and Grandma are already members so we will also be working this week to try and get a date set up for her. Other then that, honestly things here are just what I would consider normal. It seems as a missionary that a lot of the days sometimes just run together over and over again. Since I am now well into my sexy six, I have been trying to watch what I eat a lot more and I have been really cutting back on the “Real Sugar” Coke which is really hard. Hopefully with doing that and walking the tons of miles we do every week; I can come home somewhat more in shape. Although I have lost most of my muscle and my suit sort of hangs on me now! Well, I hope everyone has a great week! Love Elder Fawcett
Hola Everyone: Well, this week is finally over and I know that is a pretty bad thing to say, but this past week has really been a hard one. Real de Minas has turned out to be probably my hardest area on my mission. We almost literally contacted every part of the area and just really didn’t have any success. The good news came last night late though that we would be taken out! So today, I got transferred to the other side of Pachuca to an area called Nuevo Hidalgo and my new Companion is Elder Van from Nebraska. He has only been out for a little under 6 months so I will be continuing his training as a missionary which should be fun! This new area is close to some of the areas where I have already served in, so I sort of know the general area a little bit and I know that the work is progressing better here. The best thing is that I am actually being transferred into an area that already has a few existing investigators for a change! Some bad news I got this past week from Elders Bodegas and George was that Nancy who I taught and baptized in Actopan in October of last year, died! She was a single mother who had 2 young daughters that she took care of. When I asked what she died from, Elder Bodegas told me that although she was only 28 years old, she had been taken to the hospital with a lung disease and ended up dying because of that and the fact that she was malnourished. She was really poor and even when I was there, she gave most of the food she could afford to her daughters. I guess the good thing is that she got baptized before leaving this life! Anyway, I am excited to be now working in Nuevo Hidalgo and I am happy to be getting right to work with my new companion! I love it here in Mexico and for the chance I have to serve the people here as a missionary. I hope everyone has a great week. Love Elder Fawcett
Hola Everyone: Well, this week has really been a pretty long one! I don’t have a lot to write about today because honestly, nothing of interest has really happened. We have pretty much contacted our whole Area without any luck. So, we are just doing our best to stay busy. One of the things we have started to really concentrate on this past week has been in trying to find less active people in the Ward or people who are on the records that we have never seen. One guy we have been visiting a lot is Rafa who is like 35 years old and is a really cool guy. We have been talking to him a lot but we have not been able to get him to come back to Church yet. This week, we are planning to visit with him again a few times and hopefully we can get him to come back to Church again! Honestly, that is pretty sad but he is really the only person worth talking about this week. Everyone else that we have tried to teach or contact is simply just not progressing at all. This is the last week of the Cycle so I am really hoping that the President closes this Area back up because the work is really just not progressing at all here!
Well, I hope everyone has a great week! Love Elder Fawcett
Hola Everyone: Well, this past week has honestly been pretty slow again! I thought that after the holidays, things would pick up a little but it is just a really hard area to find people to teach in! I talked to the Mission President today about our Area and I told him how hard we have been working with not a lot of success. He said that he would pray about it, but he knew that the Area had been closed in the past because of lack of success but wanted to see if my Comp and I could do anything here!
Probably the most interesting person we contacted this past week was a lady named Rosio. She seemed really cool and everything started out great! But as we sat down with her and started to teach her, we soon found out that all she wanted to do was bash the Book of Mormon. So needless to say, that didn’t go very far. Some good news for the week though is that the medication I got from the hospital last week for my pink eyes seemed to work pretty well! My eyes are feeling much better and they are not puffy and red anymore! Also, as part of Dia di Los Reyes last week, we were eating some of the bread that they eat and I found a ring in my piece! So that is supposed to mean that out of the group eating that ring of bread, I will be the next one married! Ha Ha!! Well, I hope everyone has a great week! Love Elder Fawcett
