So I was talking to my companion today and I asked
him ¨what did we do this week that I could write home about?!¨ hahaha I feel so
bad because I feel like as an assistant its just a routine. Every transfer is
the same thing: meetings, zone conferences, interviews.... But I will try as
hard as I can to remember exciting things that happened this last week haha
On Monday we got to work in our area!! And we found
some super good investigators! We found three investigators and we are hoping
that they will progress. It will be tough since these next couple weeks we
won't be in our area but we have put some super good
hermanos (sisters) in the ward to work with them while we are gone.
On Sunday and Monday we had a combined 14 lessons! It was nuts!! We don't get much
time to work in our area so the time we get we are practically just running
around trying to have as many lessons as we can haha!!
On Tuesday morning we traveled at 4 in the morning
to Guadalajara. We had our meeting with President from 10 until 3. Then we had
to make the agenda for the zone leader councils. That took another hour and
then we went to his house for dinner with all the zone leaders. He gave a super
good fireside, just talking about faith and focusing on the work. A lot of zone
leaders weren't ver happy though because he just took sports activities away
from us on P-days because a couple missionaries got hurt so now we cant play :/
but it's okay because I don't really get a P-day anyways so it didn't
affect me haha!!
Then on Wednesday we had our zone leader councils
and it went really well. We talked about a bunch of stuff but we focused a lot
on the four groups of people that we need to teach : active members, less
actives, recent converts, and investigators. We talked about their roles in the
church and how we need to be working with all of them. Then we traveled back to
our area and got home at like 11pm.
On Thursday we started divisions with Aeropuerto. I
worked with Elder Moreno in my area. He just got called as a zone leader 2
weeks ago so he was kinda nervous while working with me. After a few hours I
showed him that I was a funny dude and we had lots of fun together. We had some
good lessons and worked hard.
Then on Friday we traveled to Aeropuerto and ended
divisions. Elder Rueada and I stayed and watched their zone meeting at their
church to see how they are doing. Their zone always puts crazy monthly goals
for baptisms and they never get even close to completing so we just wanted to
give them a little extra ummphh for this month haha!!
Then today elder Rueda and I went to Plaza Morelia.
It is super nice!! It reminds me a lot of the Stoneridge Mall...but with lots
of mexican stores haha!! They actually had some sweet American stores and I
bought a snapback beach hat. Its super sweet :) ahhh the little things that get
me excited out here haha
Tomorrow we have to travel to Guadalajara again to
sign stuff for my visa. Then we are going to travel with President all week to
do interviews. It should be a fun week because we always get to eat super well
and just kinda chill with President. I am pretty excited...BUT then again we
have to revise all the area books and agendas so that takes a while and it's
super annoying haha but its one of the things I gotta do so its all good!!
This week I was studying on accepting the will of
the Lord and working as hard as you can. At times I just wish I could work in
the field and see lots of baptisms again and be a part of all the miracles of a
mission. But this week I was studying about the atonement and about all that
Christ did for us. I love the scripture that says "If it is your will, let
this cup pass from me." At the hardest time of his life, Christ was
putting God first and doing everything he could for US. I was then reading in
"Our Search for Happiness" and it says somthing along the lines of
"If we strive to be like Christ- serve like he did, love like he did, and
be obedient like he was, we will find ourselves sitting in the throne of
heaven." It helped me a lot last week. Being an assistant definately
has its good parts but also affects us in our area and how we are working. I
have realized this last week that its not my will and that SOMEONE has to be an
assistant hahahaha so I will "go and do what the Lord has commanded"
and I will not stop until I see my family in the airport 1 year from today!! :)
I love you all and thank you for all that you do
for me!! You don't know how much it means to have so much support out here!!
Have a great week and I am praying for you in each
and every prayer!!
Love,
Elder Payne
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| Thought this was pretty cool... especially because it was written in English haha |
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| Not the cutest dog I have ever seen, and has had over 15 puppies! Poor dog haha |
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| Tacos de cabeza. Or also known as "cow head tacos" haha they tasted kinda weird and were gross looking haha |
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| Just got destroyed by mosquitos a few nights ago. My whole body got bitten haha it itched sooooo bad!!! |
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