Mexico Week 92: Huge Missionary Effort

Hey Family!!

Well it’s Halloween! Hahahaha, are you guys going trick or treating? What are your costumes? I personally decided to be a missionary for this year’s Halloween. I know it’s the same as last year but I just like the outfit haha. The kids are already out here collecting their money and stuff. This weekend though there is going to be a huge, huge party going down in all of Puebla. We will see if I am able to sleep. 

Well I have been busy as always. We have been working, my comp and I, on some training meetings that we have this Saturday and next week. We also have a council meeting going down with the ZL this Friday and we have a lot to prepare. Also, I don’t know if I mentioned this, my comp and I have been in charge of the YSA activity, the Missionary part, for this year. It’s going to happen this weekend, but only tomorrow will we have our Missionary part. Actually we are acting, my comp and I, in a theatre work. It’s going to be cool, hahaha. We expect over 500 investigators from all over so we have been working with the South Mission APs to coordinate a Missionary effort to get these people’s references. We will be taking over 50 Missionaries from both Missions to help with this. We have over 500 BoM with our testimonies that we printed out and put in the book. It’s going to be sweet and even though I won’t be here to see the results, I am sure that there will be a few, hahaha. If I can, I will see if I can get pics and stuff. 

Don’t have much more time since we have a meeting here in a few minutes, but I just wanted to write real quick since I will be on the road again today and super busy this weekend. I hope that you all have a great week!! I love you all! Congrats Brinkley on your engagement. I am excited to meet Cameron and hope that you are happy with him :) Sounds like a pretty legit guy, hahahaha. Accounting...I like it :) 

Have a very Happy Halloween!!

 

Con Amor,
Elder Lester

 

Mexico Week 91: Busy Life Teaching and Training

Hey Family!

Well again I have been busier than ever! I actually have not been here for this week. We left Monday, my companion and I, to Tlaxcala and we have been working with various missionaries and just got back today, hahaha. We have been working hard trying to teach and train the Missionaries in the Mission. It has been a very great but also tiring experience. We have also been working on some problems with some Elders who have not been working as they should. 

The other day I was working with a couple ZL´s and we were contacting in the street and and one of the ZL´s started to contact a family of three that was walking in the street. This Elder started to ask a lot of inspired questions about the family and it was a very good contact. I watched an observed and the man was very stubborn about listening to the Missionaries and accepting an appointment. He kept saying that he had to work from 5am to 10pm everday, and that he spent his off day with his family shopping and stuff like that. I then asked him "why do you spend that only off day with your family and not somewhere else?" He told us that he does it because he loves his family and that he only has that one day to spend with them. So then I asked him "Then how about you let us come buy next week to teach you how to be with your family forever and not just one day of the week?" He then really started to think and he said..."shoot you guys are right. How about you come by next week?" Hahaha it was a great contact and the Spirit really helped us out. 

We have a lot to plan. We are starting to work now in reactivating in the Mission, and with the President we are creating a plan for the Stakes in the Mission to be able to work with the Missionaries to be able to reactivate the less active. We are also planning the changes for this transfer since my generation is going home a week early. We are planning a few training meetings that we are going to have in the Mission. We are planning who is going to take my spot, hahaha. Things are really rolling and it's getting done and the time just flies. 

Great to hear that you are all doing good. I hope that you all have a great week. Love and miss ya tons!! 

Con Amor,
Elder Lester

 

Streets of Puebla

I have some good friends that live in Chihuahua Mexico, Juarez, Mormon Colonies. Years ago when they got married in Mesa, AZ where Shelley is from, I traveled to Mexico with them for a wedding reception at the Jones Ranch. Kelly Jones' family is from there and they currently live there and he's a Stake President. They recently traveled to Mexico City and down South to Puebla. Shelley messaged me so she could see about getting a hold of Brady. She was able to call him and they visited for a bit. She said that he sounded wonderful and is happy. They were hoping to take Brady and his companion to dinner but their schedules didn't work out. I am just so grateful to Shelley for connecting with Brady and visiting with him. 

Here's some pictures of the streets of Puebla that she took while visiting.

I've seen this in Brady's pictures.

Puebla is Beautiful!

Mexico Week 90: Busy!

We did miss a letter from Elder Lester this week but he has been in contact with me and he is doing good. They had mission transfers they were working on and he stayed in the Mission Home with the President during this time. Later in the week he and his companion searched for new housing for them and the office Elders. There are five Missionaries living in one place together. Fun!

We look forward to getting a letter soon.

Mexico Week 89: Conferences, Learning and Spiritual Feeding

Hey Family, 

Well again I don't have much time to sit down and write a legit letter. I have been in and out of the offices all day everyday. Last night we didn't get home until 11:00pm. We are working hard getting ready for the changes that we have on Tuesday. We have sent two more Elders home too so it's been very crazy here. We have been working hard and we feel like we are behind but I believe that we are more ready for these changes than the last time. We have a lot of new things going down. We are splitting a Zone into two Zones. Now every Stake in the Mission will have their own Zone and Zone Leaders which makes things a lot easier. We have been working hard to think about how to do the changes for the next change because my generation is going home a week early. Things just have been really crazy. 

Last week though we really had a great week. A lot of Conferences but a lot of Learning and Spiritual feeding. My topics went great. In the Leadership Training meeting I talked about judging righteously in our callings and correcting disobedience. It went very well. I share the example of Lehi in 1 Nephi 8:37-38 and how we need to judge righteously like Lehi did to his sons. I shared another example in D&C 101:2-5 as well. In the regular Zone Conference I talked about the Atonement and Gossip. It went very well and I have learned a lot about the Atonement while studying my topic. It has been great. I have really looked into the Scriptures and notice that the Atonement is on every page of the BoM. One example would be 1 Nephi 3:31 when Nephi and Sam are beaten by his brothers and then the angel comes. It's very interesting to see how it is talking about the Atonement. 

The Conferences have been great and we have been able to teach the Elders a lot of things. We really hit the importance of being Obedient and Repenting because we need to get onto other things in the Mission and not always talk about the Obedience issue that we have. The President has said that if we are not willing to live in a Mission of Obedience, we can go home. 

Well we have started to talk about other things. On Friday we had our ZL conference and we talked about a lot of things. We talked about Numbers of Excellence that my companion and I have been wanting to have. They are great numbers and really high norms for us. It really is going to change the Mission. Yesterday we saw how excited the Mission is as we went to a couple Zone Training meetings. The new culture is being placed and everyone is excited! 

Well I don't have much time. Hope everyone is doing just great! Love you all and hope that you all have a great week! 

Con Amor,

Mexico Week 88: Crazy busy week!

Hey! 

Well I have no time to write but I feel bad because I have not been able to. Just want to write a quick message saying that everything is going great here. We are making some big leaps in the work here in Puebla! I hope that it continues that way. I know it will. President Christensen is a great President and what I love about him is that he teaches us how important the Mission is for our future and what we have to learn in the Mission in order to have a successful future. He is an inspired man and I know that he was called of God. 

Want you all to know that I love ya all and that I miss you :) We have had a busy week this week with Zone Conferences and Zone Leader Council and now it will be General Conference. It's been crazy and it's just going to get more crazy!! Have a great week!

Con Amor,