Hey guys! This week was the hottest I have ever been in my whole life. It was the start of this thing called canícula. It is from july 20th to august 20th usually starting with the summer solstice and is when the sun hits the ecuator the hardest or in other words, the hottest 30 days of the year.
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| My Zone Leader Teaching us to drink lots of water. |
This week I got my new companion Elder Gallegos from
Villahermosa, Tobasco. He is 22 and really a cool guy. We get along really
well. Because of changes like I said last week, the size of our area doubled
overnight and we had so much work this week! We also picked up some new
investigators in the colonias where taxis cant reach so we had to do a lot of
walking in the very hot sun. A lot of you probably heard from elder terry that
talked about how odd it is that all of us missionaries enjoy ourselves even
when we should be suffering but honestly to be able to teach the gospel, its
all worth it.
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| Selfie with Elder G |
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| The New Zone |
Saturday we saw the family of 6 we are teaching and they are
doing really well, alejandra the mom, and her two daughters alondra and carla
are super interested, carlos, the dad is less interested but he is a good guy,
he will warm up soon. They unfortunatley couldnt come to church because they
live sooo far away from the chappel and didnt have the money for the taxi but
next week I think a member is going to take us to pick them up!
Sunday was sweet because YAIR GOT BAPTIZED. Yair had been
listening to the other companionship for forever but didnt feel super ready so
thursday we went and saw him, taught the word of wisdom, the law of chastity,
and tithing and invited him to be baptized on sunday and he was
like...."yeah I think I am ready" which was sweet. Katia didnt show
up for her interview and we havent seen her since thursday so we are kinda
worried her grandpa talked her out of it but we are going to see her tonight so
hopefully this sunday!!
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| Baptism of Yair |
Last night we were dying in our house of heat and had our
fans going on high speed, but we have zero air conditioning so it was an oven.
Lucky for us we also don't have food which means I had some good room to sit in
my fridge for an hour while I read the scriptures.
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| Cooling Down in the REfrigerator |
This morning this 80 year old drunk guy tried to rob me/
talk me into giving him 20 pesos so I started speaking totonaco to him and he
said "no vale la pena" (not worth it) and walked away.
This week I was studying the pearl of great price and the
relationship of adam and eve with God. They were literally sealed by God the
Father while in the Garden of Eden, and then were in constant communication
with him their whole lives after being cast into the world. Because of their
fidelity, they were able to be happy for more than 900 years together! So if
you are in a marriage and have been sealed, dont let something small lead to divorce.
God is the key to a successful mariage, if you don't have him as the glue
holding you together, its a lot harder to not get pulled apart by the things of
the world. I challenge you to seek the Lord in your marriages, and those who
are not yet married, seek for a companion that is worthy to take to the Holy
Temple of the Lord and be sealed for time and eternity.
I hope you all have a great week!!
-Elder Draper
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| Nadia |
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| Cleaning Spiders and Lizards out of the Baptism Font |
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| Bathroom Selfie |
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