Dec 18, 2017
what's up family and all my friends!?
I hope everone had a super awesome week! chirstmas is coming around the corner, the weather is getting colder, and everyone is just happier in this time if the year. I don't know if you guys knew this, but christmas is literally my favorite time of the whole entire year! and there is no better place to be than to be serving a misison.
Anyway, a few cool things about this week.
We did a zone activity on Saturday morning. We went to a thing called a tiangis. Tiangis are like huge flea markets with hundreds and hundreds of people. So it was the perfect place to contact people. We set up a table with a big poster that said #iluminaelmundo and it had a ton of books of Mormon and folletos on it. And so a few missionaries stayed at the table and the rest of us went out and handed out cards with candy canes and just tried to contact all the people that we could. I honestly thought it was a pretty dumb idea, but the very first people that we contacted just happened to take class from the missionaries 8 years ago. And they told us that they haven't seen missionaries for 8 years and they were so shocked. They were practically begging us to come visit them and teach them again. I mean, it was so awesome! So we'll see what happens with them. But the activity was very successful in my opinion.
Later that day was our baptism for the Saenz family. It's a family that I found with Elder Flores like 8 weeks ago. We didn't really do much with them, but in these last two weeks, Elder Lomeli and I have been trying to teach them all that we could for their baptism. Everything wokred out great. The baptism was literally the best baptism I have been to. With this family, the mom and dad got sealed in the temple a long time ago, but they went inactive for many years, and their three kids never got baptized. So we worked really hard to get them baptized, and that their dad could prepare to baptize and confirm them. And saturday it happend. 55 people came to the baptisimal service! Thats not normal at all. It was great to see all the support from all the ward. I'm not sure if it's cause we haven't had a baptism in this ward for 8 months or what it was, but there was so much support here. Anyway, it was beautful.
I know that the Lord blesses each and every one of us based on our obedience and faith that we show towards him. I have seen it in my mission a ton. I hope that this week all of you can find ways to show God how much you love him. This is the greates time of the year! Use it to your advantage to share the light of Christ with everyone! Have a great week! Love you all!
Love,
Elder Te
what's up family and all my friends!?
I hope everone had a super awesome week! chirstmas is coming around the corner, the weather is getting colder, and everyone is just happier in this time if the year. I don't know if you guys knew this, but christmas is literally my favorite time of the whole entire year! and there is no better place to be than to be serving a misison.
Anyway, a few cool things about this week.
We did a zone activity on Saturday morning. We went to a thing called a tiangis. Tiangis are like huge flea markets with hundreds and hundreds of people. So it was the perfect place to contact people. We set up a table with a big poster that said #iluminaelmundo and it had a ton of books of Mormon and folletos on it. And so a few missionaries stayed at the table and the rest of us went out and handed out cards with candy canes and just tried to contact all the people that we could. I honestly thought it was a pretty dumb idea, but the very first people that we contacted just happened to take class from the missionaries 8 years ago. And they told us that they haven't seen missionaries for 8 years and they were so shocked. They were practically begging us to come visit them and teach them again. I mean, it was so awesome! So we'll see what happens with them. But the activity was very successful in my opinion.
Later that day was our baptism for the Saenz family. It's a family that I found with Elder Flores like 8 weeks ago. We didn't really do much with them, but in these last two weeks, Elder Lomeli and I have been trying to teach them all that we could for their baptism. Everything wokred out great. The baptism was literally the best baptism I have been to. With this family, the mom and dad got sealed in the temple a long time ago, but they went inactive for many years, and their three kids never got baptized. So we worked really hard to get them baptized, and that their dad could prepare to baptize and confirm them. And saturday it happend. 55 people came to the baptisimal service! Thats not normal at all. It was great to see all the support from all the ward. I'm not sure if it's cause we haven't had a baptism in this ward for 8 months or what it was, but there was so much support here. Anyway, it was beautful.
I know that the Lord blesses each and every one of us based on our obedience and faith that we show towards him. I have seen it in my mission a ton. I hope that this week all of you can find ways to show God how much you love him. This is the greates time of the year! Use it to your advantage to share the light of Christ with everyone! Have a great week! Love you all!
Love,
Elder Te
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| hahaha Elder Lomeli's face cracks me up |
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| This was an awesome way to contact people and share the Gospel |
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| Had a great baptismal service this week! Christmas blessings! |
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