So this might have been the hardest week I have worked in the mission but it was great! We found tons of new people to teach and things are really starting to look up here in Agua Prieta! Right now we are in the process of planning Laura and Lupita's baptism for the 4th of July! And in the process of putting lots more baptismal dates.
Some of the highlights from this week include an Investigator who brought us chocolate milk from Douglas Arizona (I could barely keep myself from crying).
An Hermana chewing me out for saying that there are 7 continents. Here they count America, North and South as 1 and don[t count Antartica. I explained to her that we divide the American continent into 2, North America and South America and she exploded saying that we think we are so much better than everybody else and always have to separate ourselves from everyone else and that it's all one America and we're all Americans and that The United States of North America can't make itself one continent. And I explained to here that the name of our country is The United States of America and that Canada, the US, Mexico and all those little central american countries are part of North America but she was still pretty upset.
I have been getting real good at riding my bike with no hands.
I gave a talk in Church.
We had a branch talent show.
Mexico tying Brasil.
We actually had a FHE with a less active family and talked about this this past week. The dad cheated on the mom and there is just a huge gloom in their house, And i was like jeez how am I supposed to be able to help them? so I shared Elder Uchtdorf's talk from this past conference about being greatful in our circumstances. And then this same talk was used on Sunday as the basis for our lesson in Preisthood. But it really got me thinking. A lot of times, people are working and working super hard looking ahead to something and forget to enjoy each day. Each day is a blessing and we should never lose time we could have spent being happy because we are waiting for what lies ahead. So many people don't realize we are living RIGHT NOW dreams we once had. Like me for example, almost all my life I dreamed of being a missionary and here I am, living that dream. But it is SO easy to complain about the heat, or the companion, or the lazy people who won't come to church, or all the things we aren't allowed to do, and waste this once in a lifetime opportunity looking foreward to the day I go home. And tons of missionaries do it :/ Just living in general, is a dream we once had as spirits in the pre-earth life. We rejoiced when God presented us his plan and told us of the all the things we could do here on earth, and we waited and waited and prepared TONS to come to earth. And, here we are, living this life. So yeah, don't ever waste any time not being happy. Give thanks everyday. Take a moment to realize that you are living your dreams (being in college, being married, being a mom or a dad, being able to have a job, being able to drive, being able to date, ect. ect. all these things we looked foreward to for so long) but then keep working hard to accomplish the dreams you still have.
We taught so many lessons this week, I wish I could write more but I am almost out of time!
I hope you keep me and the people here in Agua Prieta in your prayers!
Love and miss you all!
Elder Mitchell
(Us hiding from the rain last week and me riding a crazy tall bike with some neighborhood ninos)
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