Go Forth With Faith: NEW COMPANION aka ROOMIE!

My fill of sugar. I am getting fed very well out here.

My new comp Elder Morales.

My new companion is fine, his name is Elder Morales. He is from Mexico City, Mexico and has 6 people in his family. He is quieter than my last companion but is also a good person. We get along great, I just need to work a little harder to fill in the silence. V*** is still hard to teach. She is coming to more of the activities and we are spending more time with her, but I do not know how long before she will be ready to accept baptism. I am enjoying my time here. It is one of the hardest things I have ever done, if not the hardest thing I have ever done, but I am thankful also for the changes I have noticed in myself since I started. I do wish I had gone before college, I think it would have been easier physically and financially, but I am glad that I decided to go. I try to write in my journal every 2-3 days. My first 3 months I wrote everyday but now it’s a little harder just because we do close to the same thing every day, different people but same lessons. I hope it’s useful when I am done, or rather that I can read it after the mission and not groan at what I chose to focus my writing on. I enjoyed the temple, I still couldn't understand what was being said for the most part but I got the gist of everything. My Spanish is maybe at 35-40% right now. I only have maybe 900 words memorized but I still can't conjugate quickly or correctly half the time so it's a work in progress.

As for this week, we met a nice little old woman named B***. She has 3 kids that live in the US and one here in Monterrey. She is 69 and her mom lives about 4 blocks from her and is 93... But she is chosen, I think. She pretty much accepts everything we teach her. She has a few questions but she likes everything about the gospel and has a baptismal date for the 22 of February. We had our baptisms, one on Thursday last week and another on Saturday this week. We had another baptism this week with A**** R****. We talked with him and he was able accept everything, so we set up the interview and baptized him this Saturday! We had a good service for him with a full room and the spirit was present throughout the service. His wife felt it quite strongly as we bore our testimony of the importance of the ordinances. She started crying at one point during the service so we are hoping that with the help of the spirit we can use this experience to invite her to hear the lessons again and be baptized. Let's see, M*** and A*** were baptized too. I did not baptize either one, rule in the mission, only baptize the first convert, and the members do the rest.

We are otherwise still searching for people to teach. I am learning how to contact still, I feel like that is going to be the hardest part of the mission is learning how to strike up conversations with everyone. But I like my area and the people are the best.

We otherwise had a "talent"show for the ward on Thursday. It was a silly dance to a song by Inside Out called Snowman.