Hey everyone,
How is it going? Good.
This week was very slow in the beginning. My companion and I had troubles getting started and focused Tuesday and Wednesday. We worked but not as hard as we could have sadly. So Thursday through Sunday we were feeling the pain when were counting up our contacts and lessons and found we were below that mark. We were below the mark quite a bit. So we picked it up and achieved our goals and found some incredible people. i learned that we are happier when we do what is expected of us in this life. For example my companion and i have set a goal to contact the number of people President has asked us. 20-25 people a day. This is a minimum. We are going to try and contact 25-30 people a day. We know that if we do that lord number one will help us, and two the lord will trust us enough to put people who need us in our path as we work. In real life it is that same. If we do what is expected of us when we are young life is a little easier is in future. So niños go to school do your chores and everything your parents say. Life is much easier.
Tomorrow we have over 20 people who told us that we can come by and visit them. (contacts from Friday to Sunday). Half of them will be home so ten. Of this ten we will find five who will accept dates and will be willing to progress of this five we will probably have one baptism. Sounds pathetic but I am excited and who knows maybe all of them will accept dates.
I don’t know if I told you this. Sadly there was a time in the mission when there was a little bit of apostasy. About 7, 8 or 9 years ago a mission president with his assistants created cards that said ANIMO! Good idea…..no. They printed the topic of the first lesson on the back of the card. Missionaries considered this to be “the first lesson”. After that they invited them to get baptized. Usually people said no I am off to work or something like that. The missionaries responded we will buy you a microwave if you come with us the chapel and get baptized. Of course the people got baptized. Also, the assistants in this time worked in my area. They would use the mission van to pick up the investigators. This is against the rules big time.
Ok why am I tell you this. Number one to tell you how frustrating it is to find someone who listens to you and then says I was baptized about in your church about 8 years ago. Are you kidding me???!!!! Yeah we find this quite a bit. So I do a lot of teaching and try to reactivate those who didn’t have the chance to understand.
Anyway, we found one of the victims of animo. His name is Jose Luis. He was baptized when he was 11. He is incredible. He wants to change so so bad. His mom is ready to come to church with us again. (The old assistants picked them up the time before in the van. They asked if we could get them. Yeah we told them no.) Jose Luis came to church the mom no. she is going to visit her niece, who is pregnant. The niece’s mom is going to leave town for work and the niece is going to be alone so Reina, The mom of José Luis is going to go and help her. She accepted a date to be baptized but won’t be able to get baptized until April. I hope that I am here.
We contacted a lady in the street and she was Christian. She told us she doesn’t need a church but pointed us in the direction of someone who needed a church. We knocked on the door and started the speech, “hi we are missionaries from the church………….blah blah blah. In the middle of my testifying she interrupted me and told us to come in. I looked at my companion he was a little shocked ha-ha. We talked with Yolanda and Eric her son. We talked about what we do as missionaries. She told us that she really wants this. Her family is starting to fall apart. We told her that we will do everything we can to help her but the thing that she can do to fix things is keep the commandments and live the best she can and pray. We shared Mosiah 2:41 with her and she started to cry. I hope we can help this family become united and happy. This mom works so hard for her kids and they don’t respect her at all. It makes me feel really sad.
Jesus has disappeared off the map. He was solid and always ready to listen to us but he is in Durango for work so we have to wait for him to come back.
Gloria is just as difficult to find and teach, and also she wasn’t in church on Sunday. We don’t know what happened. We are going to keep trying to get a hold of her to find out the best hours to find her.
Edith is a lady we found in the street one day. She is really cool. Her husband has family who are members and his nieces are missionaries in Vera Cruz. We have only taught her. We are trying to find a good time to catch them both and teach them both. I think if we keep working with them they will be baptized. The wife told us that she is willing to change her work schedule to come to church so we will see how that works out.
I am really enjoying my time out here. I can’t believe that it is already month 7. My old comp Elder Pedraza. If freaking out. He hits month 18 this week and is scared to go home. I am sacred to be scared to go home hehe. This work is the most incredible thing. I am sad I only get 2 years to do it. The only thing I can do it make the best of it. My favorite part about being a missionary is: knowing that I am working for the lord, and knowing that he needs me for this. I am glad I get to be a tool in his hands.
This church is true. Never forget that. We have the church of god in our lives I know it. I love you all ever so much.
Love Elder Paskett
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