Tuesday, January 21, 2014

New Companion in Parras


We were walking one day and this man shouted at us and started condemning our religion and saying we were hypocrites. We chatted for a while but he didn't want to listen. Well, he has a post where he shines shoes near our house so we pass by him all the time. Over the months we have become good friends. We bring him fruit sometimes and we chat every once in awhile about the gospel. He has a prosthetic leg and hasn't had an easy life. We finally got around to getting our shoes shined.



We had a lesson in the church then stuck around to help clean.



We have been working with a young man by the name in Parras - trying to help him be more active and hopefully go on a mission. Up until this point he hasn’t shown much interest and has always goofed around when we go to teach him. One of the hermanas in the ward showed some interest in him and has been working with him; building him up and teaching him the góspel.  Because of her efforts he has had a kind of awakening. He has been humbled and has realized the awfulness of his situation. Now he shows a sincere desire to repent and start working hard to make something of his life. He joined us three days this week to teach. He organized a lesson for us and helped us give a blessing to his uncle. He joined us in a fast on Saturday that was aimed at helping him get himself ready for his mission. We also had two great lessons at his house and one at the church. In every lesson he bore his testimony with real sincerity. He was raised in poor circumstances and has lacked confidence in himself; thinking he could never be a missionary. But he has made real progress.

We had transfers today. My comp was sent to some part of Torreón.  He was excited but nervous last night and put all his bags together. I cleaned the house to get ready for the newbie.  When I went into our room I found that Solorio had even packed his blankets and sheet. I said Elder, "you know you aren't leaving until tomorrow."  He said, "I have to be ready." Ha, one time he wasn't ready and we missed the bus and a zone conference. He tried sleeping in his shirt and tie without a blanket. Finally the cold won out. He put a real nice letter in my scrips. I will miss the guy un buen. My new comp is from our district.  He is the Ecuadorian that I was with on exchanges a few weeks back. It will be a great time with him - even though he doesn't like spicy food.

This week we stopped by to talk to Christopher and found him pretty upset. He had asked his mother’s permission to be baptized and she kind of flipped. She was mainly taken by surprise and told him that he was to stop all connection with us. We talked with him and he told us he would probably just have to wait until the summer. While we were fasting on Saturday we also were thinking about and praying for Christopher. That night he sent me a message that his mom had had a change of heart!

Even though I had a sinus infection this was probably my favorite week of my mission.  

A hermana has the missionaries sign a Book of Mormon and draw a cartoon of them. There are three pages full of these. Try to find your son. =)

Hey, I have to take off,

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