At zone conference we were asked to write down our weaknesses. So I did and then asked us to evaluate how we have been trying to overcome them on a scale of 3. It got me thinking and honestly I hadn’t been doing much to overcome any of them. So I gave myself a 1. I made a goal to attack my weaknesses head on so for the rest of my training Im going to do all that I can to make my weaknesses become my strengths! Which I can do with the help of My Heavenly Father. I want to be able to make it through my mission with no regrets and push myself to do my best. And I can’t do that with my weaknesses holding me back. “Yea, I know that I am nothing as to my strength I am weak ; therefore I will not boast of myself, but I will boast of my God, for in his strength I can do all things ; yea, behold, many mighty miracles we have wrought in this land, for which we will praise his name forever.” Alma 26:12
This week we got a new contact! (hopefully his fam soon! the martinez fam) He’s super awesome. He’s 18 and just graduated highschool. He played football. It was a lot of fun talking to him. When we called him he was with his girlfriend and we felt bad but he said they were just doing “homework” hahahah. But he said it was fine and wanted to talk to us. We got to know him and shared a scripture with him. He seems super interested and wants to learn more. He’s super busy with work and trying to become Independent so it's been hard trying to contact him. But we set up a lesson with him for Sunday and then he bailed last minute cuz his brother is in the military and was calling home. So hopefully we will catch him soon!
Hurricane Delta is pretty big ! back to back hurricanes in a month. We are mostly getting rain and wind as of rn but its hitting lousiana again. So literally all the people who were already affected by the first one are having another one so keep them in your prayers. We were looking at the map and it shows where hurricane danger is going to be and where we are staying is like a block away from being in the hurricane warning zone.
The humidity this week was sooo gross. It was like 60% since I’ve been here and then went up to like 92% and it was just gross you straight up just feel wet and gross. Bless A/C. Walking into our apartment it feels sooo good its nice and cold. Which I probs wont have in mexico. There's also a restaurant here called aguascalientes!! Everyone says its amazing so Ill make sure to go there before I actually head out to mexico. Speaking of which I heard that some mission presidents are preparing to go out and get missionaries soon. So hopefully by the end of the year Ill be outta here. Mi espanol es no bueno… Its been a struggle. But hopefully It will get better. I straight up got roasted by the secretary in the ward on sunday. He asked me to go set up chairs in spanish and I literally didnt know a word he said and then he started laughing and said we got a real latino over here everyone. It was pretty funny, he was just giving me a hard time cuz he knew I was new.
Oziel!! This dude is something else. We are doing our best to try and get him to read the Book of Mormon but he always has an excuse. We finally saw him recently at the park (crenshaw park is lit) and read a scripture with him. He loves it so Im still just wondering why he wont give it a shot! After talking with Oziel we were just taking a lap around the pond/lake thats there and some dude sitting on a bench was yelling at us to come over there, so we did and then he proceeded to ask us if we were those "church people". And then asked us to pray for him because he had shin splints hahaha. Then he told us he’s been struggling with some stuff and asked where our church meets so we told him and wrote it all down in A book of mormon and gave it to him. So hopefully he comes this week! His name is alex! Pretty cool guy!
We also taught this guy how to pray over a zoom call! He’s awesome! His name is Angel. We taught him how to pray and he loved it. After that he was already talking about baptism and hes never been baptized before and for some reason already wants to be baptized which is crazy cuz he hasn’t heard any of the lessons or knows anything about our church. His wife is in rehab. He said once shes out he will talk to her but basically everything that happens next will be on her so hopefully she is down for that!
There were also six kids in my zone that tested positive for covid after they went to zone conference which is kinda scary and then we gave 2 of them hugs and shook their hands so we are stuck in our house for today. We also saw our zone leaders yesterday and they hadn’t been feeling good and we had given them hugs as well. So hopefully they get their test back and hopefully it’s negative. One of those six missionaries was scheduled to fly home and now cant because of that so I feel bad for him. My mission president is the man and is already on top of it!
Pics
The beautiful Crenshaw park at 6:30 in the morning
Me at the park
Elder Coats and I at Zone conference!!
Some dude just chillen by his flipped over car.
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