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 40: Reading the Book of Mormon

Happy Halloween!!

Well just so that you all know, yes Mexico celebrates Halloween hahaha, but instead of asking for candy they ask for money hahaha, so the people give little money and sometimes candy. The funny thing is that they do it with their parents hahaha!! Every little kid that asks me for money, I just tell them that in my country they ask for candy, you should do the same hahaha. It's probably mean but I really don't have millions to give out to the little kids hahaha. They hardly dress up! But it's a holiday here. I hope you all have a great Halloween this night!! Baseball here by the way is a popular sport so I heard that the Cardinals did win and I am happy that they did. I just want the Dbacks to go all the way again!

Thank you for all your emails! I enjoy reading everyone of them :) I am glad that you all had decent and good weeks!! Remember that you are all in my prayers and thoughts. In about 1 year we will all see each other again hahaha, how crazy is that!! Really my mission has been passing by so fast and I feel like this last year will just pass by faster! I am really loving it here and I really love the people here. They are really nice and the members are always willing to help anyone. I really love them here. They have given me clothes, money, blankets to keep warm, and food.

Well in this past week Elder Escamilla and I have been working hard. We found a sweet family of 4 who let us in their house to talk. Well we started talking about the Restoration and the Book of Mormon and they all loved it. There is a little boy of 10 years who in the lesson said "Mom we need to get Baptized again because the Catholic church doesn't have the Priesthood." Hahahahaha how cool is that!! That first lesson we all invited them to be Baptized and they accepted! This week this sweet boy has been reading the pamphlets and the Book of Mormon and is pushing his family to listen and read and progress. He really is a great example! This past week we have also found a couple more new investigators who have accepted Baptism and look like they are going to progress.

This past two weeks we have invited our recent converts to join us in reading the Book of Mormon before Christmas. In our visits this week they have all read a ton!! Hno Fidel and his son are in Alma 28 and read 20 chapters one day!!! Hna Cony and her family are in 3 Nephi after 2 weeks!!! They are beating us!! I asked Hna Cony "are you sure that you are not in 2 Nephi" she told me no but that she is reading in 3 Nephi. Well I asked her "so you read all of Alma?" and she responed "ohhh Alma is the best book so far in the Book of Mormon!" hahahaha!! I could not believe it! They are just strong and faithful members!! This past week we also have been working really hard reactivating members in the ward so that we can achieve our goal in splitting the ward soon. Well yesterday in Sacrament meeting there were members standing outside the room because there weren't any seats!! It was awesome!! Hahahaha the Bishop really feels that we can split the ward if we keep working hard and Baptizing.

Things are going great here in Castillotla and I am really loving Missionary work! I don't have much more to say. I have not tried anything new food wise. I have alot of pictures to send but I forgot my camera again so next week I will get them on :) I love you all and hope you have a great week everyone!! Stay safe!

Love,

Elder Brady Lester