September 18, 2017
Hey everyone! Hope you all had a great week! Elder Pizzi and I also had a great week!
Well first off, Im not sure if I said inmy last email, but I got a new companion on Monday. His name is Elder Pizzi, and he is from Medford Oregon!! We are the only two misionaries in our whole mission that are from Oregon and it's awesome that we are together. He's sucha cool guy and a great missionary. He's my first white companion too haha!
Well this week we kinda just started from new. Since my area has struggled a bit the past few weeks, we decided to drop all of our investigators that wern't progressing and find new ones. And we were able to find 12 new investigators (12 is a lot for one week!) so we were able to teach them. One of them is like a family of 15, that is super rare to find, but they are awesome and i have a lot of hope and faith for them for them! The only thing that was kinda annoying is that the dad kept making fun of us. It was kinda funny, but he kept saying that he was going to sneak tequila in our drinks and stuff! It's obviously a joke! but yeah he got annoying.
This friday was Mexican Independence Day so we recieved intruction from President Mecham that we had to be in our apartment by 7 on friday and 6 on saturday. Not because people hate americans here (they actaully do..well some of them) but just because there are so many parties andit gets super crazy. There are fireworks going off all night and literally just super loud music and everyone is drunk. So its best to be inside and not outside. The only thing is that, well, boring. There isn't much to do. So to put everything in short, on friday, we did our weekly planning real qucik and used our time to rest (yes, we slept) but it was good. And then on Saturday since we had to enter in even earlier, I asked a member if we could borrow her monopolu (it was Disney edition yay!!) and me and my comp played Monopoly for like two hours. I won of course...
Yesterday, I gave a talk in my ward. They gave me like 20 minutes to talk and it's cool because they don't really giveme a topic to speak on. They just said speak on whatever you feel the ward needs to hear and learn. So, I decided to speak on the importance of reading the Book of Mormon. I feel like i'm always talking about it, but it's becasue it's seriously so important! I didn't really even prepare a talk. When they told me I need to speak and to think of a topic I thought BoM immediately. So I got up there, told a story about how I was challenged by my stake president to read the Book of Mormon as quick as I could before I submitted my mission papers and how I was able to gain a testimony by doing that. So I talked about all of that, and then somehow my talk turned into a counsel for the ward to find something that they need to be better at, and pues, be better at it! It could be humility, patience, reading the Book of Mormon, saying your prayers every single day, making it to church on time, etc. It can literally be anything htat is slowing you down spiritually. And that could even mean not being on your phone during church. I was way guilty of that before my mission, but now being at church, without a smartphone, I can honestly say it is so much better. And i hope this habit stays with me for the rest of my life. So anyways, my invitation to all of you guys is to find that one thing that is slowing you down spiritually and work on it until you have perfected it, and then chose the next and then the next. Our purpose here in life is to grow, and to change, and to have faith and confidence in the Lord and Jesus Christ. And by always trying to be better, each and every day, we are completing our purpose here.
Well, hope you all have a great week! Take care! Be smart! Be dilligent always! Love all you guys! thanks for all the great support! Hasta luego!
Elder Te
Hey everyone! Hope you all had a great week! Elder Pizzi and I also had a great week!
Well first off, Im not sure if I said inmy last email, but I got a new companion on Monday. His name is Elder Pizzi, and he is from Medford Oregon!! We are the only two misionaries in our whole mission that are from Oregon and it's awesome that we are together. He's sucha cool guy and a great missionary. He's my first white companion too haha!
Well this week we kinda just started from new. Since my area has struggled a bit the past few weeks, we decided to drop all of our investigators that wern't progressing and find new ones. And we were able to find 12 new investigators (12 is a lot for one week!) so we were able to teach them. One of them is like a family of 15, that is super rare to find, but they are awesome and i have a lot of hope and faith for them for them! The only thing that was kinda annoying is that the dad kept making fun of us. It was kinda funny, but he kept saying that he was going to sneak tequila in our drinks and stuff! It's obviously a joke! but yeah he got annoying.
This friday was Mexican Independence Day so we recieved intruction from President Mecham that we had to be in our apartment by 7 on friday and 6 on saturday. Not because people hate americans here (they actaully do..well some of them) but just because there are so many parties andit gets super crazy. There are fireworks going off all night and literally just super loud music and everyone is drunk. So its best to be inside and not outside. The only thing is that, well, boring. There isn't much to do. So to put everything in short, on friday, we did our weekly planning real qucik and used our time to rest (yes, we slept) but it was good. And then on Saturday since we had to enter in even earlier, I asked a member if we could borrow her monopolu (it was Disney edition yay!!) and me and my comp played Monopoly for like two hours. I won of course...
Yesterday, I gave a talk in my ward. They gave me like 20 minutes to talk and it's cool because they don't really giveme a topic to speak on. They just said speak on whatever you feel the ward needs to hear and learn. So, I decided to speak on the importance of reading the Book of Mormon. I feel like i'm always talking about it, but it's becasue it's seriously so important! I didn't really even prepare a talk. When they told me I need to speak and to think of a topic I thought BoM immediately. So I got up there, told a story about how I was challenged by my stake president to read the Book of Mormon as quick as I could before I submitted my mission papers and how I was able to gain a testimony by doing that. So I talked about all of that, and then somehow my talk turned into a counsel for the ward to find something that they need to be better at, and pues, be better at it! It could be humility, patience, reading the Book of Mormon, saying your prayers every single day, making it to church on time, etc. It can literally be anything htat is slowing you down spiritually. And that could even mean not being on your phone during church. I was way guilty of that before my mission, but now being at church, without a smartphone, I can honestly say it is so much better. And i hope this habit stays with me for the rest of my life. So anyways, my invitation to all of you guys is to find that one thing that is slowing you down spiritually and work on it until you have perfected it, and then chose the next and then the next. Our purpose here in life is to grow, and to change, and to have faith and confidence in the Lord and Jesus Christ. And by always trying to be better, each and every day, we are completing our purpose here.
Well, hope you all have a great week! Take care! Be smart! Be dilligent always! Love all you guys! thanks for all the great support! Hasta luego!
Elder Te
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| Great guys |
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| With my district |
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| Getting into the Mexican spirit |
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| P-day fun |
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| Beautiful sunset |
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