The
first week (of the changes) was full of action, that's for sure. A home has indeed been found
for the new missionaries. The conference for leaders will be next week with
Elder Valenzuela from the México area presidency. Elder Lobo and I have a good
start to the plan with church attendance, but we'll likely finalize it tonight
or tomorrow morning to talk to the zone about it in the classes.
I was asked by
the father to baptize Dylan this week and was assigned by Elder Lobo to speak. The girl that we talked to behaved well, her mom gave her
permission, everything looked good, but at the last second the dad changed his
mind and said that he no longer gave his daughter permission. The girl is a
little discouraged right now so perhaps you could pray for her (I don't have
permission to use her name, so I won't).
We had a few people come to church
this week and the other elders in our ward had a miracle family of 4 show up
out of nowhere so that was cool to see. They're good missionaries, but hadn't
had much luck lately so that made me happy.
Elder Lobo is really good at that
"last ditch effort" kind of persistence and that helped us a ton this
week in our area, so that was good for us. I'll learn a lot from him. This week
we did a somewhat urgent split to another area in a trio with Elder Lobo,
another Elder and I. We stayed two nights in the other Elder's house and to be
honest it's kind of a spooky house. It's got stories and the whole deal. But
the other Elder took advantage because Elder Lobo is easy to scare and so at
4:00am the other Elder slammed a door in the house and Elder Lobo half-woke up
to a mini heart attack. It was pretty funny haha. The other Elder had to go to Mexico City for
something with his visa.
This coming week I'm excited
to get to work because for the first time in a while I'm expecting to have a
fairly free week to work. One tender mercy for us is that the zone seems super
motivated to work right now and there is a high level of excitement. And I know
that attitude makes a big difference so I'm certain that we'll be able to see
even more miracles now than normal.
I'm trying now to focus on my testimony of
Christ and so I'm studying the book of John and 3 Nephi right now. I've been
able to strengthen my testimony in a lot of little things in this week thanks
to the study and I'm excited to continue. Nothing crazy with food this week.
The biggest challenge is just trying to keep up with all of the responsibility,
but it's good to be pushed so I don't mind.
Love
you!
Elder Finlinson
Dylan and his family at his baptism with the missionaries.
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