Normally
Hermana Equihuas calls us for our birthday and gives us socks in the following
conference. I don't have the package yet, but the assistants are coming on Wednesday
for splits so maybe they'll bring it right on time.
Ezequiel and Yamilet
couldn't come to church this week. Elder Marines taught them in splits this
week, but we never got the chance to teach them together.
The advice Pres. Equihaus gave me was
specific for the needs of the zone, but in a broad aspect I suppose it was
concerning the importance of correcting missionaries and knowing even though a
lot of people don't like being corrected, often times it's necessary.
The best
part of the week is that we found a couple people who are willing and ready to
be baptized very soon. One's name is Dilan and he's 10 years old. He's the son
of a semi-recent convert who has already been to church several times with his
dad. His sister Meredith is also going to be baptized, but she's 8 and her dad
is a member so she'll count for the ward instead of the mission. It's the same
work though I suppose. But the ward will be in charge of the interview and
everything for Meredith. The hardest part is that I feel like we're not doing a
good job of having an exemplary area right now, which is a large part of the
job of the leaders in the mission. We were blessed to find Dilan and Meredith,
but we're really battling to find more people. But today I talked with Elder
Griffin (one of our district leaders) about what he's doing in his area to have
so much success and he reminded me of a few of the things we used to do when I
was in Xalapa. I don't know why I haven't done them here. I'll do them this
week and I believe we'll see more success soon.
Something that made me laugh
was a drunk fellow that approached us while we were talking outside with the mom
of Ezequiel. He decided to "teach us how to dance." We just watched
him for a bit to be nice then sent him on his way with some compliments about
the techniques he had shown us.
The tender mercy/miracle in our area was Dilan.
But we also saw a huge blessing in the zone because if everything goes right
this week and the next then every area in the zone will baptize this month. And
just a week ago things were looking rather poor. So that was good.
Something I
like about Elder Marines is that he is really good about recognizing his
weaknesses. He doesn't blind himself in pride like many of us tend to do. And
as he recognizes them he tries to improve. I can see that he's improved a lot
personally since last time we were together and I know that it's because he
asks God to help him be better.
Something fun that I tried this week was pig
foot. It's basically pure fat. The flavor is fine, but I didn't want too much
because I don't expect that eating pure fat is a great idea. It's sunny and
warm right now. This week we had a little bit of everything. Sun, rain, clouds,
cold, hot, etc. For P-day we played basketball and soccer. In your prayers you
could mention Agustin and Irineo so that they can stop drinking and Dilan so he
can understand what we teach him. There are other people, but those names come
to mind more powerfully for now.
Love
you!
Elder
Finlinson
This
is the baptismal font in Misantla. I think it'd be fun to baptize here. This is in one of the area's in Connor's current zone.
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