Its weird to think that i already have 2 months in the mission. woah that went by fast, but at the same time its gone by really slow. So this week i had some pretty different experiences with a family that we found the other week. Im not really sure how everyone is related, but there are 2 parents and 2 sons (i think) that are investigating and are actually progressing pretty well. The other day Elder Nolasco and i stopped by to teach one of the sons and during the lesson i thought he was saying that he was in a gang before and got it a fight or something, but after the lesson elder Nolasco told me that he was saying he spoke to satan and had marks on his body from it and that there are 5 demons and he knew them all by name.... i guess i missed a little bit of stuff during that lesson haha. and then the next day we went to their house again and he was suuuuper drunk. the most drunk ive ever seen anybody. and he wanted us to teach him and his mom, but we ended up leaving him and we took his mom to general conference! sadly, we missed a lot of general conference because we were trying to chase down investigators and bring them, but we got to see a lot. and i got to listen to about 1.5 hours in english! I think the elders quorum president saw me trying to stay awake during the saturday morning session and decided that it would be better if i could understand what they were saying, so he set up a laptop for me and another elder in our ward who is from colorado and has about 10 months in the field.
The other day on the bus i saw a guy wearing a University of Utah hat! im sure he has no idea what it means, but hey i havnt seen any byu stuff so i guess its 1-0 utah!
The work in mexico is tough because everyone has a hard time saying no, so we have tons of people who will let us talk to them and teach them, but they dont really have any interest in our message. its hard because it seems like we have a lot of investigators, but they arent actually interested.
We have one investigator named David Parra who is actually progressing and i believe will be baptized! he is the son of a less active member and i think he has a real desire to follow Christ and be baptized, so hopefully within the next few weeks ill have a picture of my first baptism!
Oh, and when we finally got the mother of the drunk guy to general conference we sad down and the first full talk we heard was from Elder Bednar and his first words were "my message is meant specifically for those who are not member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints" holy cow, what a blessing! we may not have gotten her there for a lot of the session, but i feel like we got her there for the talk that mattered most!
Challenge: Read/listen to/watch the talk from David A. Bednar called character of Christ (at least i think thats what its called) its not from the most recent conference, but its amazing!
Thanks for all your love and support! -Elder Wagner
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