Week Seventy-seven: Lots of training!

Today we went to Lake Chapala! Its huge!!!
Its kind of like Couer d'Alene Lake in Idaho but I think this lake might be bigger. There are a ton of tourists there too. While walking around we saw a bunch
 of older American couples and a German couple.
 I thought they were Americans until I heard them speak haha.
I'll attach a lot of pictures, don't worry.

This Wednesday we had a special conference for all the missionaries across the globe!!! There were a lot of great speakers and they showed a us a few things to change, so that's what were going to be doing, CHANGING!.

Following the worldwide training we had divisions with the assistants: Elder Raya and Elder Timpson and we all 4 went to their area (which is a new thing just now starting in the mission. Before when we did divisions, one Elder from each companionship would go to each area). We learned a lot and keep learning! To be honest, it would be pretty hard for me if i were Elder Martinez because he only had one week left haha. but he is staying strong and I love that about him!

 

Pedro our investigator is a very different investigator haha. Usually its really easy for people to read the Book of Mormon and pray about it and then they never go to church, but with Pedro its the complete opposite! He has now come to church 5 times without any help from us or members, but he hasn't read the Book of Mormon and prayed about it..... Its a first timer for both of us haha and combined we have about 3.5 years in the mission field.... woah, i just realized that Elder Martinez and I are the oldest companionship in the entire mission... that's freaky. 

Challenge: Last week we met with an inactive family that is starting to reactivate and they shared something that really impacted me. They have a 16 year old daughter and when the family moved to Guadalajara a few months ago the daughter was making new friends and she said that the girls asked her the following: "Do you smoke? Do you drink? Do you have sex?" She replied that she did not and they told her, "Then what do you live for?!". 

So the challenge this week is to remember why we live, what our purpose in life is, why we do the things that we do. When we have a purpose in our life it acts as an anchor that holds

 us in the right place instead of being tossed and pushed around by the temptations of this world.

I love you all!! thank you for all you do for me! 

Elder Wagner