Ya so right about 10 minutes after writing that email last week I was puking in the street in front of an Oxxo. Probably one of the lowest points of the mission so far. And then I spent the rest of monday tuesday sick in bed. Wednesday we left for like an hour and then returned home because we both felt sick,Elder Ranger and I and Thursday also we could only work for about half the day. So that was all pretty rough, one of the toughest and most boring parts of my mission. Also Thursday we went with the Zone Leaders to do the baptismal interviews with Magaly y Lupita who were to be baptized on Friday and we found out that the night before her dad got in a big fight with her mom, he got thrown in jail, the mom is 5 hours away in Hermosillo and Lupita and all her siblings are with their aunt, somwhere in Agua Prieta... but Magaly passed her interview and was baptized!!!! Yay! But none of her family came which was pretty sad because we planned the whole thing with them so they could go...
But we did do a little 4th of July celebrating here by going to the border to pay some respects to the motherland, watching the Douglas Arizona fireworks from our roof and lighting off some home made mexican bottle rockets. The Douglas fireworks were actually pretty sweet and right on the border but we were at our house like 5 miles away so it wasn´t as cool.
But then on Sunday we had district (stake) conference and it was waaay cool. All the talks were about the temple and we given by district prez, husband and wife that were just converted and sealed, a kid leaving on the mission, Colonia Juarez Temple prez and his wife and Mission Prez and his wife (they actually talked about missionary work) but it was super sweet. Two things I liked the most was when temple prezident said that ¨the dead dont really exist¨ because a lot of times they are more alive than us if we arent fulfilling our duties here on earth AND his wife that said our futures are as bright as our faith. And that really struck me and made me think a lot about our investigadores Gaby and Brenda that promised theyd come to church but made some excuses and didn´t come. So I felt really inspired to go share this message with them after church and we went and I gave em a little bit of a wake up call and pep talk about what faith really is (getting your butt in gear and not making excuses) and we put tons and tons of goals and intermediate goals with them. One of them being a baptismal date for august 16th (Yay Carter!). And afterwards they we super grateful and expressed how they felt that is what they lacked and exactly what God wanted them to hear and I was like ya I know because He sent us here to chew you bums out. (in my head of course)
Also this past 2 weeks we found and have been visiting the coolest family ever that reads the book of mormon like everyday and also has baptismal dates...the only thing is that they don´t come to church either... YET. Jesse Alejandro and their 3 kids are way cool though. They actually live right by us and brought us tons of rice and food when we were sick and ask tons of questions about Lehi and his family and Moroni and all that.
Also this week it cooled off a ton and rained a lot so that was sweeeet.
Anyways thats about all the time I have for this week!
Love and miss you all tons,
Elder Mitchell
4th of July at the US Mexican border with Elder Ranger and our sweet USA ties.
And Magaly and her friends from the branch at her baptism.
A tough week is nothing Agua Prieta´s biggest and best burrito can´t solve
Also AMERICA!!!
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