Hey family,
How is everyone doing? Good I hope. This week was really long but sadly each day didn’t have enough light to do everything that we needed to do. Haha funny huh. This week was really really good. People are progressing rapidly and really seeing the changes they need to make in order to receive the blessings that they need.
Eric, we went over a stop smoking lesson with him. We told him the importance of quitting he asked if he smoked this week and then quit if he could get baptized. We told him that we would have to wait if he smoked. He was really sad when he heard that. He is really trying just can leave it behind as easy as he wants too. That is life. During that lesson we told him if he could do the quit smoking program we would go to Las Pampas. It is a restaurant like the one in Utah where they walk around with swords of meat. We told him the missionaries would pay if he could do it. He seems pretty motivated for this and if baptism also. I am excited for him. P.s. he came to church a week ago. Sadly he worked yesterday and couldn’t come. But he came the week before which is good.
Yolanda, she is making a great change. She is the one that had problems giving up her menudo Sundays. Last week she missed church because she had too much to sell to come to church. Or so she says. We talked about the blessing that come from being a member of the church. We brought a member with us this week and she told her story of her conversion and testified of the importance of the Sabbath day and going to church. Yolanda with this changed how much menudo she made for Sunday so that she could sell and go to church. Now, we want her to leave it all behind but hey progress is progress. J
Alejandro, he is amazing. He reads everything and researches everything in order to really understand everything that he possibly can. He wants to learn and grow. It is awesome. He has a lot of faith. He isn’t afraid to ask questions either. It makes it easy to know what we need to teach in order to help him. He came to church but came late. He was in gospel principles and priesthood and stayed for the baptism that the other missionaries had in the ward. It was really exciting.
We found a family this week. The Hernandez family, the mom is a member and so is her oldest son. Her 3 younger daughters aren’t members and neither is the dad. The girls came to church but the mom didn’t. She said she wasn’t feeling good and thought she shouldn’t go. The girls later told me that she just didn’t want to go. I was a little upset. Everyday I trust people less and less, even the ones that seem so sincere. She told us that she would come next week and that her husband was going to go too. We will see what happens on Sunday. They told us that they wanted us to come by everyday. I think it is because I am a gringo that speaks Spanish (quite well J and yes I am dreaming in Spanish) and I have blue eyes and I am rather dashing. With three girls yeah that is why they said we could come by everyday. Ha-ha. We have only taught them about baptism and part of the plan of salvation. So I will keep you updated on them next time.
I am excited to hear about the progress that you are having in music tanner Jon and Makenna. I regret not learning how to play the piano and practicing for band. I wish that I could be home and listen to your concerts and music and what not. I didn’t love it so much before but really you start missing things your hated when you are on your mission ha-ha. Keep up the good work. Dad, I don’t think it would be a problem if you sent me the video or music to listen to if you can. Not that I doubt you your abilities in being able to send it more like if you have time ha-ha.
Last week in district meeting we talked a lot about progressing as a zone and districts. President is really disappointed with our zone lately so we talked it out. The night before Elder Pedraza and I were talking about the difference between California and México and why we were able to have so much success in a matter of a few months. I got a letter in the mail from the mission in California and the yearly news letter and what not. It blew México out of the water. The assistant attacked me asking me questions and what was it like ha-ha. I translated a bunch of stuff in the letter into Spanish for elder Guti. He was really impressed. But anyway I was talking with Pedraza about a bunch of things and we are applying some of the things that Cali does here in México. And with that we have seen progress within our areas as well as our selves. We all have grown well my companion and I have ha-ha. We are doing exchanges 2 times a week with the zone leaders, mainly because they live with us ha-ha. Anyway in California we took turns teaching investigators. We shared the area so it was easy to do this. We can’t really trade areas here in México but we can do exchanges so that we have four people working with the people. We saw a lot of progress with Eric and Yolanda. The whole zone really likes it and is excited.
Well, there isn’t really anything else new. Exchanges are tomorrow and we find out what is going to happen with everything tomorrow. I think that I am going to stay. President called the zone leaders and they told him that my comp and I are doing work and leading that zone in everything but baptisms but however he told him in April we will probably lead in that too. Ha-ha. We will see what happens. Well that is the update for this week.
I love you all so much. I know that this church is true and that it is a blessing that everyone should look for and one that everyone needs. I love you all so so very much take care.
Love Elder Paskett
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