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Tuesday, January 23, 2018

January Leadership Conference Plus New Companion

1/9/18
     Hola todos! Elder Angulo officially ended his mission and now I’m with Elder Schank, a gringo from Nevada! The Americans are stormin Barra de Navidad. Everything’s good, nothing much to say, just trying to keep on keepin on. Next week I’ll send a real email! 
His name is Carlos and he’s one of the best young people
in the world. He was prepared before we even taught him;
he pays close attention to everything and shares it with others.
His baptism was very difficult because there was a lot of
opposition, but a miracle took place. He was baptized and
it was a feeling of great joy for his family, especially for his
grandmother. Their desire to live the gospel is being fulfilled
more and more.
Here are some other memories with Elder Angulo:

1/15/18
     Firstly, I’m sorry for basically not writing anything at all. We’ve been absolutely crazy busy, last week we had no time to write because of changes, and the week before that I don’t know what happened, the week before that was Christmas, and during all this time I haven’t written in my journal ONCE.... pero ay vamos. 
     The mission has been going really well. Some investigators are progressing a lot and others no. One investigator put a marriage date so that they can be later baptized and it just so happens to be on the 25th of January, pretty good birthday present. But they haven’t gone to church in a month because they still don’t want to stop working on Sunday. The past few weeks they haven’t been able to go to church because they have had too many clients. Strangely, they’re super happy about that because. “God is sending them more business on Sundays".... My patience is running thin with their theory. 
     Other than that, my companion and I have been working a lot to find new investigators and use our time wisely. President has just given us permission to sleep in the casa de oración in la Huerta, so we can de a TON more work there. Unfortunately we have to sleep on the floor and its super cold in the mornings. Elder Schank is very cool, just kinda weird but we’re all weird! Even though he’s going home in 4 short months, he doesn’t want to die so we are kind of motivating each other to work harder and talk to everyone. It’s pretty great with him. 
     I wish I could tell you about everything that’s happened, but I really don’t think I would have the time to write everything down. But what’s incredible to me is how God organizes his work. It’s incredible the amount of "coincidences" that happen every day, but they aren’t coincidences. God is guiding people to us, and us to the people who need to hear part of our message. It’s incredible the amount of patience He has for us, for me honestly. I feel like I’ve wasted so much of my time trying to do things my way and am just barely figuring out what it really means to have an eye single to His glory and do His will. I’m still a long ways away from where I would like to be, but I find myself receiving more and more joy in missionary work as the days go by. It is the work of angels, yet He lets His imperfect children take part in this great and marvelous work. How great a blessing we have.
     As a run down of the last few weeks, we had a mission council and noche de hogar with the leaders in the mission, other meetings with certain church leaders, and just yesterday, President Clayton told all the missionaries to come to a meeting with the leaders of the Manzanillo district that he was inspired by the spirit to have. It was a really special experience and I feel like that Manzanillo can really progress if we follow what we learned. The whole district is kind of suffering. The adversary is honestly fighting really hard for Manzanillo, But now is the time for miracles here. 
Manzanillo Branch Conference
From Sister Clayton's blog
"January 2018 Mission Council!!
We had a beautiful morning as we began our mission council for this new year! Much to talk about, fresh goals and new commitments to make.  It was a great day!
First and foremost, our beloved Prophet, President Thomas S. Monson has passed away.  We love him and honored him today as President Clayton talked about him, and all that lies before us as a new prophet is sustained and continues forth in these latter days."

Here are some pictures:

8 fundamentals!

1. Doctrine of Christ - The Missionary Purpose
2. The Role of the Holy Ghost in conversion
3. Revelation through Prayer
4. Revelation through the Book of Mormon
5. Revelation through Church Attendance
6. Teach People, Not lessons
7. We Invite, They Commit, We Follow Up
8. How to Begin Teaching
Unity

****Elder  Boyd K. Packer tells a story about his visit to a country fair.
Country fairs are opportunities for farmers to come together to demonstrate
their expertise with livestock. (Farm animals)
He tells the story about a contest where pairs of oxen pulled enormous
loads while they were joined together with heavy wooden yoke bound
tightly around their necks.

He observed that the oxen that could pull the heaviest loads,
were not always those that were the largest or strongest animals.
Rather, those that won the contest were those oxen that, regardless
of their size and strength, were 'equally yoked'.
This means that when the signal was given, they worked with,
not against, each other. Their unity was the key to their success.*Harmony - agreement, peace, friendship, accord, getting along,
enjoyment of each other’s company.
*Unity - oneness in purpose and motive.

****When missionary’s work together in harmony and unity...
1.the Lord magnifies their efforts
2.helps them to accomplish much more than they otherwise could

Taco’s for lunch!
And everyone ate outside on this gorgeous 
day. 
Assistants, Elder Dehesa and
Elder Long taught about 
*Setting goals
*The Standard of Excellence
*Effective practicing
Let us move forward with faith! 

     This week we have focused on the less actives quite a bit, not so much teaching them (they usually know anyway) but trying to show love towards them and inviting them to come back. What’s really cool is that in la Huerta, we had 29 people in Church and in Barra we had 20. The Elders in Cihuatlan are working super hard, and had like 24 people as well which means to say that in the whole branch of Barra de Navidad, the attendance was at 73ish. Miracles!  All I know is that if we show love and concern to others, they can feel the love of God in their lives, which motivates all people to act. We just have a lot more to do now!!! 

     Les amo a todos ustedes, perdon por no decir nada en sí pero...... Ya me arrepentí 

Que tengan una excelente semana! 

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