Week Sixty-seven: Giant Rabbit

This week I learned about the importance of keeping in contact with investigators. We had plans to have about 5 different investigators in church this Sunday and then we lost contact with them and were only able to get 2 of them to church :(

Oscar Pantoja was one of them and we pretty much had to get him out of bed and drag him to church and the other investigator that came was Oscar Davalos who is an investigator who we found by searching through the former investigators in the area book. Its great that they came to church, but we still have a lot of work to do with them to get them ready for baptism. We´ll see how things go this week.

Andrea was doing so great and promised to come to the movie night we had saturday night, but she never showed up and we were'nt able to confirm our plans with her before sunday morning and when the member showed up to church, she wasn't with him and we were'nt able to ask what happened because we were busy taking care of the other two investigators. So this week we are going to have a ton of contact with her so she goes to church!

In the mission, we have changed a lot since i got here. Nowadays we are focusing in a lot on the less actives in the ward. President Egginton told us that in Mexico there are 1.5 million members and there are .5 million active members. Yeah its pretty heavy stuff. So we have been working with a few families in the ward and one of them is the Limón family. This week we went to visit them and we found out they have a massive rabbit named Tambor (in English: drum). *Photo attached below. The family has been making progress and were really exited for them.

Tambor

Lately, Elder Gonzalez and I have been really tired. Most of the streets here are made of rock. I don't think I have a picture, but I'll take one this week to show you what it's like. To show you what Elder Gonzalez thinks about walking all day on these streets, I took the liberty of capturing his exhaustion in a picture.

Elder Gonzales giving into exhaustion :)

The scripture I chose to ponderize this week is... D&C 82:10. Its so simple and direct. I love it.

Challenge/Spiritual thought for the week: Put your trust in The Savior. This week I heard a quote that went something like this "In stead of telling your God you have a big problem, tell your problem that you have a big God". Sometimes we see all the overwhelming problems we have and we think that by just praying we can have God fix it for us. Almost everday I teach people that faith leads us to action. So when we have a problem, we should remember that just having faith that God will fix it isn't sufficient. Our Heavenly Father requires action on our part so we can learn and grow. So when you run into a problem remember that you have a loving Heavenly Father who is at your side ready to help you out. All you have to do is ask for help and give it your all knowing that God will be fighting right along your side.

Thank you for all your love, support, and prayers! I love you all!

With love, Elder Wagner