Hola Familia,
First to answer a couple questions. My exact location is the city of Tultitlan, by Cuatitlan Izcalli. I don’t have any idea if you will be able to find it on the map, but yea, that’s where im at. My stake is called Valle Dorado (that is also a city) and my ward is Valle de Tules. So yea, lets see…..
We had another baptism this week Gustavo, and when I got here to the internet café he was in here. I don’t remember if I told you his story or not, but we were walking around looking for this members house at like 9 oclock at night and we couldn’t find it, but then Gustavo and his mom passed us and yelled at us. His mom told us that he is a problem child and hangs out with the wrong kinds of kids so we told him that we would take him to mutual the next day. He knew a couple of the kids at mutual and we played soccer and basketball and I owned all the lil Mexican kids. Haha But Gustavo liked it and has gone to every mutual and every Sunday since then. Every move we make as missionaries (when we are doing what we are supposed to) is directed by the Lord. I know that Gustavo and his mother were put in our path that night. He got baptized on Saturday and got confirmed and received the priesthood yesterday. His mom went to church and now she wants to get baptized, we don’t know if we can baptize her this week, but we are going to see. We should have at least 1 more baptism this week. So things continue to go great in this area and we are the only companionship that has baptized in our district since December. Our zone leaders continue to be pretty happy with us.
In fact, tomorrow, all of the district leaders in the whole mission have a meeting with President Nancollas and I got a special invitation to go even though im not a district leader. That means ill probably be the only one there that doesn’t have the title of district leader. My zone leader called me last night and told me, I was pretty excited about it.
That’s all the big news from the mish for this week really, we are continuing to work hard and we had 7 investigadors in church which is more than the other 3 companionships in our district combined. I think this letter sounds a lil prideful, but when you work as hard as Elder Torralba and I, I think its allowed. Haha It looks like Humility is still on my list of attributes to acquire (sp) on the mish.
Oh, we had zone conference on Friday and it went pretty well. The same as always actually, but the good thing was that I received a ton of letters. (mostly Christmas cards from family and friends and familys from the ward. Here is a lil thank you shout out to all of them! Thank you to the following people and/or families! E. Bradley Mortensen, The Petersons, Sandstroms, Kitchens, Fieldings, Shermans, Forrests, Stan and Mary Ellen Porter, The Kerrs, Kate Kerr (she sent me a personalized hand written note haha), Uncle Matt and Aunt Dawna, The Allens, Uncle David and Aunt Donna, The Woods, Ted and Mona Larson (I was so tempted to eat all of the caramels myself, but I shared with a family that gives us food almost every night, they loved the caramels, they were exceptionally delicious THANK YOU) Todd and Ashley, and of course you mother! I really enjoyed the Christmas card that you sent out this year mom, good work!
Thank you everyone! I loved all of the pictures and notes! They are all hanging up in my little 3 by 5 foot room wall.
Lets see, I have mixed feelings about the Ravens loss, of course I would have hoped that they would go to the superbowl, but its cool ifyou wait to more years so I can go right Todd.
Oh mom, speaking of my blog, will you send me it. I think you sent it to me once, but I don’t remember it! Thanks!
Well life is great and im still loving the work of the Lord. I feel the blessings of your prayers each day and I know it is helping me out here in the field. The Hand of the Lord is in ALL things and I am firm believer that everything happens for a reason. The Plan of God, the Plan of Happiness never ceases to amaze me, it is perfect in every way. I know this church is true and I know that the power of faith and prayer is unbelievably real. I know Thomas S. Monson is a prophet of God. I know that this church as well as this Mexico city north mission is directed by men called of God. I am so thankful to know that My Savior Jesus Christ not only payed for my sins, but for everytime when I feel sad or alone as well. He knows how we feel and he knows how to cure us if only we come unto Him.
I love you all! Have a Great week!
Con amor,
Elder Greg Heap
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