Week Forty-three and a half: 10 months!

The view from our new apartment this morning

Today i finished ten months in the misson! its crazy how fast time is going by! i think just last month people were asking me how long i had been in the mission and when i said 9 they said stuff like i was just starting and i was still new, but now when i say 10 people say stuff like wow youve almost got a year! or youre already on your way back! i guess once you hit double digits people see two numbers and think its way more haha.

This week we had a ton of work to do because monday we had to move out of our old house and take all of our stuff to a new house and then tuesday we had to turn it in and clean it and we had the leadership council so i was running around doing errands for them and we had people painting the offices all week so i had to go a dayish without a computer and it was really hard to get stuff done. oh and yesterday we had our zone meeting so we lost pretty much the entire work day. so this next week we have a lot of catchup work to do. its going to be a tough week, but were going to work hard and get everything done!

oh yeah so now we live in a new house in some apartments right next to the offices so in the morning we only have to walk about 30 seconds to get to the offices!

This week we started working with a old investigator named feliza. she says she likes the church and she likes it when we come but she never keeps her commitments and its extremely lazy. but we had a good lesson with some members yesterday and i hope she starts improving. she says she is trying to decide between the catholic church and the "mormon" church and cant decide, but she hasnt ever read the book of mormon so were going to focus on that and really try to get her converted.

On thursday we got to the offices and started working really hard right away and then on of the assistants to the president called me and told me and my companion to be ready in 10 minutes in the mcdonalds parking lot with our area book. president then picked us up and we went on a small trip to a town called Tepatitlán and did our weekly planning while he did some interviews with some missionaries (i think. im not actually sure what he did) so we lost a lot of work time for that, but it was good because we had a really good weekly planning session!

Challenge: Read the introduction to the Book of Mormon. Sometimes we just read the book of mormon because we know we should but we dont really understand what it is, and others have never touched or even seen the Book of Mormon. so i invite all of you to read the introduction to the Book of Mormon and ponder what it says. its only a page and a half, so dont worry about how long itll take you to read it!

Extra challenge! I want to hear some of you experiences! if you have a conversion story or a spiritual experience you would like to share with me, please send me an email! Also, if youre not a member and want to know more about the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints but are too afraid to ask someone, ask me! i can answer any question you might have and help l you learn a little more about what the church is all about.

Also, if you have any questions for me about what i do, how things are in mexico or any other question send me an email and ill answer it for you!

Love you all! -Elder Wagner