Week 52 - A Ver Si Jala!

Hey Everyone!

Pretty good week this week.  Lots of chamba (work).  Last Monday we went with a Colombian woman that we found contacting last week named Sandra.  She's super cool.  She lives with her husband and her two little kids.  They moved her from Columbia like 4 months ago I think?  She was really interested in our message and it's always cool to hear a different accent.  The Mexico City Chilango accent is funny so change is good.  Actually people always tell me that my accent is super chilango and that I talk like a Narco, because I learned how to talk Spanish in Iztapalapa which is super ghetto and the accent stuck.  Oops.  But anyways we taught her two lessons and she accepted a baptismal date this week!  Her only problem is that she works on Sundays.  We're gonna have to work on that.

Also this week we went with Karla and Joel (the two school teachers that need to get married before we can throw them in the water) and had a really good lesson.  Since I'm leaving in two weeks I told them that I really want them to keep progressing when I leave.  We set a new goal with them and they said that for sure they are going to get married in December.  They set a date and made plans to get it done.  It was great.

On Saturday we had a leadership meeting in my old area, the famous PARAISO.  I was so excited to go back there.  It was sweet.  Sadly I couldn't visit anyone, but the meeting was good.  We talked about what we can do to make the mission better.  Right now we're really focusing in becoming truly converted, not just receiving a testimony.  We talked about how we need to learn how to be true disciples of Christ while we're here and that if someone else isn't being a disciple of Christ, it's our job to correct them.  There were a lot of good ideas shared and it was awesome to feel the Spirit in that room for about 4 hours.  Good times.

That's about it for the week.  Have a great week!  Love you guys!

Elder Warren

Elder Kay's face

Tacos 5 por $15 in Paraiso

Love these guys!

Elder Osorio and I in a mototaxi

Just so you guys know I can still dunk after 1 year in the mish

Week 51 - NDH De Oro

What's up fam,

We had an awesome week this week!  This Saturday we had the baptism of a little girl named Briza.  It was really cool how we found her.  We went to do a service project with a member from our ward and she told us she had a reference for us of an inactive from our ward named Teresa.  We went to visit her and found out that she has a 9 year old daughter!  We started working with both of them and were able to reactivate Teresa and baptize Briza!  It was really cool.  We had three investigators present in the baptism which was awesome.

Also we planned a Family Home Evening with an awesome family from our ward this Thursday.  They told us to invite all the people we wanted.  So we did, and we were able to bring FIVE investigators and a recent convert.  We played games and taught about prayer and it was awesome.  We love that family.

On Tuesday we had a Zone Conference and it was the greatest one so far.  They were talking a lot about if we're doing our job here on the mission.  They made the reference to a pit stop team.  They can change a car's tires and fill it with gas in like one second (if you haven't seen it watch a video).  If we're doing our job efficiently and correctly, we find great results.  They shared a lot about Jesus Christ and our own mothers and if we were making them proud for the work we're putting in and the loyalty we show them by being great missionaries. (Don't worry Coach Susie, I got you.)

To finish off the week it was Mexican Independence Day.  It was WILD.  Everyone was shooting of super loud fireworks and getting drunk in the streets.  It was pretty crazy!

That's about it for the week!  I hope you're all doing great!  Love and miss you guys!

Elder Warren

Week 50 - Que Flojera!

Hello Everyone!

Pretty solid week this week, probably because I wasn't sick haha.  Some cool things from the week:  We've been teaching a man named Julio recently.  I don't know if I've mentioned him before, but he's the father of a less active family and he's not a member.  We've been working with them for quite a while and finally (five years after the baptisms of his family) he's progressing!  We've had some really good lessons and he and his whole family went to church for the second time in a row!  That's the first time he's been to church twice in a row.  Good progress.

Also this week we started teaching a sastre (I don't remember how to say that in English).  The missionaries were teaching him like a year ago but they stopped visiting, who knows why.  We started talking with him and he was like, "What are the requirements for baptism?"  Long story short, we explained the requirements for baptism to him and put a baptismal date as a goal that we're going to work towards with him.  All he's gotta do is stop drinking alcohol, which shouldn't be too hard with the help of the Gospel.

Also we've been working with that reference that a member gave us (the one of the less active member with her daughter that's 9 years old that she wants us to baptize).  They've been able to go to church with us and we have her baptism planned for this Saturday!  It's pretty cool because this Saturday is Mexican Independence Day (which must be like Fourth of July but with tamales and tacos and stuff?).  We're excited for it and hoping that everything goes well!  I'll let you all know how wild Independence Day gets down here.

That's about it for now,  hope you all have a great week!  Love you guys!

Elder Warren

Pictures:

Getting my young selfie game up with my friends at the bowling alley x5

A pic of the Young Gun J-rad and I before the mish

A pic of the Young Gun J-rad and I before the mish

Getting my young selfie game up with my friends at the bowling alley!

Bowling fun!

Week 49 - Ataque De La Gripa

Hello Amigitos,

This week was a little slower for us.  I was sick all week with a pretty bad cold so I couldn't really breathe or stay awake, but we were able to get some work done still.

We had a cool visit with my recent convert, Alejandro (the old dude that got baptized like 2 months ago).  We were talking with him and he said that he wanted to help more people learn about the church.  He said, "Let's go knock on all of the doors in this area and explain to them all why they should be Mormon."  Alejandro is so awesome.  He laid out a whole plan for us to knock on every single door in the Colonia to baptize more people.  So we're gonna start doing that with him in a couple of weeks.  It will be really cool because Alejandro is a professional salesman, and he's one of the best.  I'm excited to see how he "sells" the Gospel!

Also this morning we went to the offices and while we were there was an earthquake alarm.  So all of us missionaries went outside to see what was up.  There wasn't an earthquake, but some drunk dude came up to us and started yelling at us.  He actually had pretty good English for a drunk dude.  He said that it wasn't fair that some dude beat him up, and I guess that was our fault?  He threw some garden hedge clippers at President Mann but missed by a lot because he was pretty wasted.  And then a bunch of girls from across the street started waving at us and taking pictures.  I guess they're not used to seeing so many white people haha.  It was a fun trip to the offices.

Well there's some other stuff from the week but it's not too interesting so I won't bore you all.  This week will be better because I don't feel too sick anymore.  Hope you all have a great week!  Love you guys!

Elder Warren

2 Week Old Puppy (:

Pres and Elder Santiago (He leaves next week)

We're big (but he's bigger)

The five white people from my generation

The zone at the end of last cycle