Hey there everyone!!
Well I have to be honest, I am surprised I am still alive here after 5 weeks. The traffic is crazy in the city and they don't really care about the pedestrians, haha. Also my comp and I always have to carry rocks with us since we have dogs always chasing us down the street, hahaha. It is kinda funny actually, especially when the little dogs try and chase us.
Anyways, thank you everyone for your kind words and letters!! I always enjoy your letters and hearing about normal life, haha. Brinkley, this week sounds like its going to be fun!! I hope you have fun at Morp!! Kolby, good luck with baseball tryouts this week!! I will be praying for you. Kasey and Braxley, thank you for the sports updates. Why did the Jazz trade Willams?? Kasey, I hope you have fun with your campout, and Braxley with basketball. Work everyday on defense. That is the most important. You know what they say...Defense wins championships!! Hey, keep me updated on how BYU basketball is doing in the tournament!
Well, for this week it was a little more successfull. Elder Villalba and I have been trying hard to find more people to teach, but they just are not coming. Plus the members are not helping us out at all! The other day we went knocking on doors on this one street and no one was interested, and so we had two more houses left and Elder Villalba wanted to quit because we had no success. But I told him no because I felt an impression that we should knock one of the houses. So we did and ending up getting an appointment. The other day they accepted to learn more, and now we have 4 more investigators, a nice beautiful family :) Always listen and ACT on the promptings of the Spirit!! They come softly and sometimes only once, but through the Spirit we can know all things, and why wouldn't we want to know all things?
Wednesday we had our distict meeting and we talked about how we can become a more successful Missionaries! Afterwards we had divisions again so I went with Elder Bravo in his area. We had great success. He is a great missionary and is from Cancun Mexico, haha!
Thursday we had our weekly planning session. We hope to have a Baptism this coming Sunday with Lorena. She is improving and has accepted everything she just has not prayed and is scared to change her beliefs. We have been promising her great blessings though. She is great! Daniel our other investigator wants to join but has not gotten permission from his parents, who are really catholic. We might be talking with them this week.
We had to drop an investigator this week. Erica. We found out that her husband has another wife. We have told her that she needs to marry him leagally, which means he leaves his other wife, which he won't, or break up with him. She won't because she loves him too much so we had to drop her :( I wish the best for her.
Well some sweet things happened this week. I got my first haircut in Mexico haha! I had mole finally and it was good!!! Also on Saturday I got to kill a goat!! Yesterday we ate it with some members :) I have pictures that I will upload :) So how the goat worked out was that we hung it upside down from its legs and put a bucket under its head, then I stabbed it in the neck and all the blood came out, haha. It was fun!! And we ate it yesterday and it was way good, hahaha.
Nothing else much happened this week. Oh!! So President Rex last week sent an email to the whole mission that we must read the entire Book of Mormon by May 30th, 100 days. So I stopped my reading in Alma and started over again. Right now I am in 1 Nephi Chapter 17 when they build the ship. Something I learned this week I want to share. In 1 Nephi 13:37 we learn that those who take this Gospel will be blessed with so many blessings, this includes everyone, not Missionaries alone. This work the Lord tell us is marvelous in 1 Nephi 14:7. This work is Missionary work and Temple work. These two works are the same work!!! It is taking the Gospel to those in this life or in the next. We must do this work together and see it as ONE marvelous work and a wonder. I have pondered on how we can better this work and make it more successful. The first thing, which is the first law in Heaven of course, is to be Obedient! We can't have the Spirit if we don't exercise obedience. Second, the answer is in 1 Nephi 10:19. We must search and ponder the things of God which are the scriptures. I have learned that if you want to be inspired, read the Book of Mormon everyday and PONDER and ASK yourself how these words apply to me right now. When we do that, through the Holy Ghost, ALL of the mysteries of God will be unfolded to us. Then we must act on the things that we learn. This is how the Lord works and teaches. We work at it, He helps us understand through His spirit, and then we must Act! It's kind of like learning how to drive. You can't learn how to drive unless you study the laws, get help from your parents or an experienced driver, and then you drive! You don't learn unless you do. You don't progress unless you act.
Well I gotta go but I love and miss you all! Thank you for all your kind words and letters and the package!!
Love,
Elder Brady Lester
P.S. I have transfers next week and I will tell you how they work then because I don't know now, haha.
Well I have to be honest, I am surprised I am still alive here after 5 weeks. The traffic is crazy in the city and they don't really care about the pedestrians, haha. Also my comp and I always have to carry rocks with us since we have dogs always chasing us down the street, hahaha. It is kinda funny actually, especially when the little dogs try and chase us.
Anyways, thank you everyone for your kind words and letters!! I always enjoy your letters and hearing about normal life, haha. Brinkley, this week sounds like its going to be fun!! I hope you have fun at Morp!! Kolby, good luck with baseball tryouts this week!! I will be praying for you. Kasey and Braxley, thank you for the sports updates. Why did the Jazz trade Willams?? Kasey, I hope you have fun with your campout, and Braxley with basketball. Work everyday on defense. That is the most important. You know what they say...Defense wins championships!! Hey, keep me updated on how BYU basketball is doing in the tournament!
Well, for this week it was a little more successfull. Elder Villalba and I have been trying hard to find more people to teach, but they just are not coming. Plus the members are not helping us out at all! The other day we went knocking on doors on this one street and no one was interested, and so we had two more houses left and Elder Villalba wanted to quit because we had no success. But I told him no because I felt an impression that we should knock one of the houses. So we did and ending up getting an appointment. The other day they accepted to learn more, and now we have 4 more investigators, a nice beautiful family :) Always listen and ACT on the promptings of the Spirit!! They come softly and sometimes only once, but through the Spirit we can know all things, and why wouldn't we want to know all things?
Wednesday we had our distict meeting and we talked about how we can become a more successful Missionaries! Afterwards we had divisions again so I went with Elder Bravo in his area. We had great success. He is a great missionary and is from Cancun Mexico, haha!
Thursday we had our weekly planning session. We hope to have a Baptism this coming Sunday with Lorena. She is improving and has accepted everything she just has not prayed and is scared to change her beliefs. We have been promising her great blessings though. She is great! Daniel our other investigator wants to join but has not gotten permission from his parents, who are really catholic. We might be talking with them this week.
We had to drop an investigator this week. Erica. We found out that her husband has another wife. We have told her that she needs to marry him leagally, which means he leaves his other wife, which he won't, or break up with him. She won't because she loves him too much so we had to drop her :( I wish the best for her.
Well some sweet things happened this week. I got my first haircut in Mexico haha! I had mole finally and it was good!!! Also on Saturday I got to kill a goat!! Yesterday we ate it with some members :) I have pictures that I will upload :) So how the goat worked out was that we hung it upside down from its legs and put a bucket under its head, then I stabbed it in the neck and all the blood came out, haha. It was fun!! And we ate it yesterday and it was way good, hahaha.
Nothing else much happened this week. Oh!! So President Rex last week sent an email to the whole mission that we must read the entire Book of Mormon by May 30th, 100 days. So I stopped my reading in Alma and started over again. Right now I am in 1 Nephi Chapter 17 when they build the ship. Something I learned this week I want to share. In 1 Nephi 13:37 we learn that those who take this Gospel will be blessed with so many blessings, this includes everyone, not Missionaries alone. This work the Lord tell us is marvelous in 1 Nephi 14:7. This work is Missionary work and Temple work. These two works are the same work!!! It is taking the Gospel to those in this life or in the next. We must do this work together and see it as ONE marvelous work and a wonder. I have pondered on how we can better this work and make it more successful. The first thing, which is the first law in Heaven of course, is to be Obedient! We can't have the Spirit if we don't exercise obedience. Second, the answer is in 1 Nephi 10:19. We must search and ponder the things of God which are the scriptures. I have learned that if you want to be inspired, read the Book of Mormon everyday and PONDER and ASK yourself how these words apply to me right now. When we do that, through the Holy Ghost, ALL of the mysteries of God will be unfolded to us. Then we must act on the things that we learn. This is how the Lord works and teaches. We work at it, He helps us understand through His spirit, and then we must Act! It's kind of like learning how to drive. You can't learn how to drive unless you study the laws, get help from your parents or an experienced driver, and then you drive! You don't learn unless you do. You don't progress unless you act.
Well I gotta go but I love and miss you all! Thank you for all your kind words and letters and the package!!
Love,
Elder Brady Lester
P.S. I have transfers next week and I will tell you how they work then because I don't know now, haha.
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