Love being a Missionary!

It was a relatively good week. We knocked a lot of doors, we taught a lot of people, and I felt the Spirit a lot. What more could I ask for. Im just loving being a missionary and I cant think of a more fun thing I could be doing in my life (even though dinner with Preston Kyle and Brooklyn looked pretty dang fun) Hermana Guillermina and Gustavo have been going to church every week. Hmna Guilla keeps asking me for books cause she wants to learn more and more. (even though she doesn’t know how to write, she can read though) I gave her my Principles of the Gospel book and I think she will use it more than I would. We should have at least 1 baptism this week, possibly 2. Ill inform you more on them later. We have a lot of people to baptize, but I usually don’t like to baptize the people unless I know they have a testimony. If we baptize the people and then they go inactive, we are just condemning them. So I would rather save souls then condemn them. The work is going great though. E. Torralba has had a change of heart and we listen to church music every morning and night (the cds I brought are coming in handy)

What else is new. Oh, I started Jesus the Christ, by James E. Talmage. I started it on Thursday night and im already on page 145. I figured that if Im going to be representing Christ, I want to learn all I can about Him. Its an awesome book and I highly encourage reading it.

Oh mom, you are going to be very proud of this next comment. I guess for the mission I have had a change of heart about writing in my journal and Ive been doing it consecutively since I left home. I am actually like 20 pages from finishing and I was wondering if you could send me another journal. You know one of the navy blue ones that says Journal on it and then the first page is like a family tree. Well yea, one of those. I want to have like 3 for my mission so I need to start writing more. I am coming up on my 1/3 mark and I want to finish my Journal by then so if you could send me one that would be great! Thanks!

Well this week there was a lot of ups and downs. Mostly ups though so im pretty happy. We found a way awesome couple that went to church this week. She was asking about being baptized and was concerned that she isn’t baptized in any church. We taught her the first few lessons and she was so excited that she made her husband go to his work late and go to church. We have to get them married, but that shouldn’t be a problem. I have a little bit of experience in that area. There names are Maria and Jose Antonio. She came to church last week as well. She just showed up alone and wanted to learn. She is what you call (golden) even though she isn’t going to be able to go to church this upcoming week. Im thinking an early March baptisms. This next lesson we are going to mix in Temple Marriage and hopefully they can get married in the temple in 1 year. (ill still be in the mish so ill get to go to the temple ceremony, that would be sweet)

Don’t worry mom, we stayed clear of the dangerous part of our area this week and I didn’t see one drunk all week. (pretty rare actually)
Oh funny story. So we were walking down the street the other day and a cow goes running by. Then follows 3 mexicans chasing it. The cow was huge. We decided that we were going to help them out. Apparently after talking to the guys there was another 1 lost as well. Well we ended up backing the cow into a corner and one of the Mexicans lassoed (sp) it. It was pretty tight and they were pretty thankful for our help. It was so random though. A cow running through the middle of the city……Then later on that day we were walking by and found another cow, also huge, just chilling in a little empty lot, eatin grass. We thought we would take some pictures with it before we went for the owners. So ill send some pictures. (Kurt, im on the look out for a huge Toro like the one in your picture you sent me) But for now, this will have to do.

Well that’s about it for this week. I want you to know that I have a testimony of this church. I know that we have the Restored Gospel of Jesus Christ and that He lives. I know that God lives and loves me and listens and answers to my prayers. I know that this is the work of the Lord. I know that Thomas S. Monson is a prophet of God and that He talks to God face to face. I know that The Book of Mormon is the word of God and I know that if we follow the council in it, we will be able to obtain our eternal Glory. I know that My Heavenly knows me personally and leads and guides me each day.

I´m so thankful for my family and friends. Each one of you has been such a strength for me in my life and I will be eternally grateful to my Father in Heaven for blessing me as He has.

Hope ya´ll have a great week and I have you all in my prayers. Thanks for your love!

Con amor,
Elder Greg Heap