ok so we had tranfers and.......... welp i am staying in tonalá!!!!!! so stoked i am serious i did not want to get changed but it will be my last transfer as a leader because the last one they always take you out of leadership so i will have another are thats crazy. way excited to i am staying with elder gamez. we are pumped.
ok sorry the message last week was short and all i really said was dont talk to me about home so i hope it didnt sound mean i wasnt looking to make you feel guilty it was something that was on my mind and i just really want to stay focused and its no that you guys talk about home that much its just that i dont want to hear about finishing the mission because i am terrified thats all and also to help me stay focused a hundred percent. i have 3 months left and i have 3 months of hard work to be honest we have had some really hard trials so the last thing i want to think about is home. thats all haha i love you guys and i do want to come home but at the same time i dont because the mission is the best thing i have ever dreamed about doing. and now that its winding down i gotta take advantage if the opportunity i have to learn the most i can from my father in heaven so i can come home strng and serve in the church wherever the lord calls me to serve. but those are the reasons ok so dont feel bad.
ok so last saturday was rediculous. on wednesday we had a conference and out president made us a promise that we were going to have more trials and harder ones too and well is promise has been fulfilling everyday. but especially saturday. we had an investigator that well yuo can see in the picture his name is joaquin hes a strange guy to be honest but he is like mega shy and does not like to do things and he has been strugling with the whole baptism thing because ad idk why he hadnt been baptised in 2 weeks because he was scared and i didnt really understand. but on friday he had a interview and finishing the interview the elders took off because it was way late so we asked joaquin if he was going to be baptised and he said idk ask the elder that talked to me.. so we sprinted afte him. elder tingey told me. he can be baptised whenever he wants i signed the paper the problem is he doesnt want to be baptised. so we decided in the mornig we were going to go to his house to encourage him to be baptised at 7 and we stood out in the sun for like an hour just waiting for this kid to tell us ok at seven but he decided... no come back at 3 and i will tell you yes or no so we left and went to the church to fill up the baptismal font because we wanted to be ready because he was going to be baptised at least thats what i kept repeatig in my head to stay pacient and happy haha so as we are walking to the church some guy that sells tortilla says e is looking for our members to give them there tortillas so i call them and help him out then we get to the church and we realize that we dont have keys to close the empty valve.... that was terrible but we said ok we can just put our own plug so that we can fill it until we get keys to close the valve. so then we go to turn the water on and the door where the knobs are is locked..... o my goodness so mad that door has never been locked in any church i have been in and here in tonala it has never been locked. so were like crap what do we do i go to call the leaders and talking to one he is in charge of everything he and all the people with keys are in the activity that i just helped have the tortillas and as i am talking i run out of minutes!!!! so were like lets go eat and we will deal with this mess. we went to eat got keys to the valve from the other elders and we come back but the dont have keys to the door!!! so were like ok lets fill it up with a hose... the hoses dont have ends on them to connect them with the spiket so i was just like crap now lets think. theres always a way you just gotta think and i saw a rubber glove haha thats the other picture i sent. good think i had my handy dandy pocket knife!!!!!!!!!!!! loove that thing. i cut off the middle finger of the glove and them cut some strings off the mops haha and tied it all up!!!! yup your sons still got it i rigged up ready to go.... so it was time to go to joaquin. we said a prayer to heavenly father telling him that we have everything set up and we have worked to have the baptism and we needed his help to finish it. so we left and headed to joaquins house... right before we get there we get a text saying come by at 7 to get me but we were close to his house so we decided to go anyways.... we got there and hes like yea i want to be baptised. we got way excited he took like half an hour to pick who he wanted to baptise him.... then we wen to the church and told everyone we could to go and at night we went to his house and got hhim got to the church and there are no memebers... no members means no baptism!!!!!!!!!! but at the end a few showed up and w baptised him but it was a mess but it shows that the profesies of the president are just fulfilling hahaha this saterday the same thing happened but the guy didnt get baptised this satuerday for sure!!!!!!!!!!
its been fun here in tonala i love it. every investigator we have when we show up satan attacks haaha but we will keep fighting. elder gamez is going to be 25 on the 28th of march and i am going to be 21 in april!!!! i can gambel and byu beer... nice.... well i will never be able to use those privledges haha but its ok its better not to.... oh yeah we found some ladys from san cristobal they speak tsotsil the dialect were going to start teaching them!!!!!!!! its going to be way fun.
ok well i know that heavenly father is listeneing to our prayers trust in him and he will help its been a real eye opener these few days. and i know that and if you dont know that i invite you to try it out ad you will see that its true. our father loves us and wants us to be happy it desnt matter what has gone through life or what we have done he loves us and is always ready to listen to our prayers. remeber that and look for oportunities to serve so that the father can trust yuo to!!!.i jut realized i dont remamber if i sent a happy birthday to stevie or not but i am so sorry if i didnt i love you buddy FELIZ CUMPLEAÑOS NOS VEMOS PRONTO ESPERO QUE ESTE FELIZ!!!!!!!
ok i gotta go love you guys a lot if you could say happy birthday to jake for me i know his bday was like 2 weeks ago but i would apriciate it today i think i am going to buy new shoes to celebrate haha cause mine are destroyed again!!! hahaa love you!!!
elder houston
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