Que tranza papis,
We had a good week out here in Mexico City! Let's
start off witha moment of silence for my good friends Elder Corzo and Elder
Dominguez, as they finished their missions this week. They will be
missed.
We had a baptism this week! We baptized a fourteen
year old named Eiberham. He's super cool. He's the son of the alcoholics
we're teaching. It's really cool how we've seen a change in him in such a
short amount of time. He wanted something better for his life and he was
able to find it in the Church. We were super excited for him!
Also something really cool happened with Elias, the
drug addict we've been teaching. First of all, we've been teaching him for
over a month and he hasn't relapsed in that time. Also he wasn't able to
go to church at all because he played baseball every Sunday. But on Saturday
he told us that he really wanted to go to church with us so he decided to quit
baseball so that he would have time to go to all three hours of church.
It was really cool.
ALSO some inactives that we've been visiting have a cat that
just had baby kittens! I hate cats but they're so dang cute. I sent
a picture of how tiny they are.
Alright now to the good story. So I went on divisions on Saturday with Elder Dominguez because he leaves home on wednesday and it was my last time to see him. So we went to his area and were working in an area called Gelatao which is a little more dangerous. We were working with a member whose name is Alexis and he's awesome. We were walking to an appointment and these dudes ran up to us with knives and robbed us. They took my money and my phone and my watch but they actually recognized Alexis and took off before they could steal my backpack which is good. So turns out Alexis was inactive for 7 years, and during that time HE WAS IN THE MAFIA. He got really mad because they took his smart watch. So he took us to one of his friend's house from the mafia. It was so sketchy. Just being near the house I felt like I was in a drug deal. This old lady was outside and Alexis asked if her son was home. She was like "Do you know him?" He said "yes." She said "does he know you?" "yes." Then she went to go check. She did some special knock to get in and when the door opened this dude was spread out on the couch like a freaking king. He came out and Alexis told him what happened and he was like "hold on let me make some calls." Within five minutes six other guys showed up. These guys were Dwayne Johnson HUGE and tatted up and they all had little backpacks on (I asked Dominguez and it turns out those backpacks are for carrying their guns). But they were all homies. They all called us papi. Anyways they heard we got robbed and they got super mad. They were all like "let's go find these guys" and they got into a car and took off because they knew where one of them lived to get our stuff back. They didn't end up finding them in their house which was probably good. That was probably the coolest thing that's ever happened in my life.
I'm going to end with a quote from David A. Bednar: “If
today you are a little bit better than you were yesterday, then that's enough.
And, if tomorrow you are a little bit better than you were today, then that's
enough.” We're not going to become perfect in a single day. But if
we can make the little changes day by day, we'll see giant results.
Have a great week! I love you all!
Elder Warren
Pics
The 4 of us from my generation that are training
Tiny puppy
Elder Dominguez
Baptism
Tiny kitty
Elder Corzo
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