Aldaberto is getting baptized!

This week La Familia Acosta that we have been teaching for 3 months now told us that they are hoping to get all their divorce and marriage issues taken care of really soon so they can be baptized. The mom and dad told us that their kids are starting to bug them because they want to get baptized! Also Alan and his... almost wife? told us that they set the goal to be married before April is over so he can be baptized. (Teeré the wife is already a member) Their grandpa who had been sick for a little while passed away Sunday morningso today they asked that we help out at his wake. It was pretty sad, but comforting to have a knowledge of the plan of salvation.  

And then this week we met with Adalberto and he is all set for his baptism this Saturday! Also another family we teach that works on Sunday told us that they would try their best to make it to church this coming Sunday and that would be awesome! They are older and super nice people but we have a hard time getting them to follow through on any commitments but it looks like there is some hope!

Nos Vemos

Elder Mitchell

CARNAVAL! (3/3)

So last Thursday Carnaval started, and it actually hasn´t ended yet but it is pretty crazy. I thought Carnaval was really just a Brazil thing but I guess a lot of port cities do it, Guaymas, Veracruz ect. Now I don't really know exactly how crazy it is because we aren´t allowed to go to the part of the city where they celebrate but after 3pm there is TONS and TONS of people walking towards downtown and then it is pretty loud all night. From what I have heard though, it seems a lot like Mardi Gras with a big beauty pagent, bands coming to play every night, and tons of drinking. We did walk past where they have been keeping the floats for the parades one morning though and they were all pretty sick.

 

Anyways this week was great, we had NINE investigators come to church, one of them even bore their testimony, and found some more people who seem really excited to learn more about the Gospel. We finally got Adalberto to set a date for his baptism  March 15th) after over a month of him saying he wants to be baptized but a little more down the road. I can´t believe I am going to complete 4 months in the misión this week! Time flies by faster and faster each week, it is crazy.

Sacrament meeting talk (2/24)

Well this week was a lot of the same. Really hot, lots of walking, teaching, trying to get our investigators married, ect. But everything is going good.

 

We got two more missionaries in our Ward, Elder Mejia from Honduras, and Elder Bernal from Mercer Island, WA. I actually had met Elder Bernal once or twice before the mission because he plays lacrosse and transferred to play at BYU the semester after I left. Crazy that out of all the wards in the mission we´re both in the same one! So this week we helped buy all the stuff for their house, beds, kitchen supplies and stuff which actually took forever and was pretty boring, but oh well, you got to have a bed. And also we spent a lot of time showing them around the area.

 

On Sunday I gave a talk in Sacrament meeting and was pretty nervous but it went well! It was about prayer and trusting in God´s blessing and time table. I did however use the wrong word for time table a few times, I said horario, which I thought was just like saying schedule or time, but it´s actually more like a work schedule, so it sounded like I was saying God only answers our prayers according to his work schedule, as if there were hours when he wasn´t working or hours when he doesn´t bless us. Öh well haha luckly yet unfortuneatley none of our investigators came to church to hear that.

I actually feel like my Spanish got a lot better this week! I can be pretty impatient with myself sometimes and I asked my family to pray for me last Monday and I could DEFINETLEY feel the extra help of those prayers and my Heavely Father this week. A lot of people asked me how long I have been serving in México and told me my spanish was very good or noticed I have improved a lot.

 

Also I was not sick at all this week so that has been awesome!

 

I hope you keep me and all missionaries in your prayers, we really do have a Heavenly Father who knows, hears and loves us!

We bought a cake for one of our Investigators birthdays (Alan)

Riding in the back of a member´s truck, super super super hot back there

 

Ustedes son los mejores,

Elder Mitchell