Hey familia
Well its been a long week to say the week. Not everything in the mission is happiness and love. Although thats what ive been goin for.
The good thing is that NOW im healthy and happy and ill give you the details of the story.
So this week we found some awesome people to teach. Unfortunately we still dont know if they went to church because we didnt even go. Ill let you know why in a few paragraphs....
So Tuesday I went on interchanges with E. Christiansen, he is from Towson Montana (i would like to know how close that is to where the Whitemans and Tanners go) (not too far north of there)He told me that i can go visit him after the mish whenever. He`s pretty cool kid. He has the same time in the mish as E. Ryan and E. Golledge. We found 4 people and put to baptismal dates for his investigators so it was a successful day. Sometimes the missionaries get scared to invite people to get baptized. When that happens, I go to their areas and I put the baptismal dates. Also to help them know how to do it for themselves.
The mission right now is going to lose a lot of awesome leaders in January and February so I just got to help all the greenies learn how to be good missionaries. Thats my task from Pres. Nancollas.
Wednesday was the Mexican Independence day and Thursday the day when EVERYONE is hammered drunk. So they were interesting days. We worked, but didnt have much success. I did interchanges on Wednesday with E. Allen, one of my zone leaders. He is cool. He`s the only zone leader from my generation (or in other words, we have the same time in the mish) i think a lot of us will move up soon when all but 5 zone leaders go home by February. We`ll see what happens.
Thursday there wasnt 1 person in the street. We just visited inactive people and they didnt even one to talk to us because they were with their families or gone.
Friday we had some major miracles. Thursday night we prayed that we would find some people that would get baptized in 3 weeks. We found some. We picked a few streets that night and knocked them in the morning. We found Reyna and her daughter. The dad of Reyna is the 2nd counselor of Elders Quorum and she is way interested in the church. The problem is that she ALWAYS works so the missionaries before didnt even know about her. Her dad has a lil over a yr as a member. She is never home, but we found her that day because her daughter was sick and didnt go to school so she didnt go to work and was there when we knocked her door. We are hoping that she went to church. (definately a blessing from the Lord)
We also got a sweet reference from our lunch appointment. Elder Carrillo (see picture)and I have started singing to the people at our lunch appointments and we have gotten some good references by doing that. Elder Carrillo has a pretty good voice. He was actually in a band and plays the guitar before the mish. He`s tight. Im going to visit him and E. Obregon after the mish. They live close to each other. They live in stakes that touch eachother.
Ok im goin to skip to Sunday. Keep in mind that now im fine and healthy and can leave the house and stuff.......
Sunday morning I woke up great showered got dressed and was ready to go get some investigators to bring to church. We went to get Lupita because she was going to get confirmed and we were in her doorway talking. I got really dizzy (pulled a mom) (i'm so sorry greg!) and asked if we could come in to sit down. So we sat at her table and i told my comp i didnt feel good and that i wanted a blessing and while i was asking i passed out..... yeeeeea.... They all freaked out and my comp said i was out for like 10 seconds before i woke up. My comp gave me a blessing and I layed down on there lil couch. (you can just imagine me in my suit with my feet hangin over their lil couch after having passed out) My comp got my cell phone and called the presidents wife to let her know. She told my comp that i needed to eat stuff and drink Gatorade or something and to go home and sleep. Lupitas dad (who loves me now) gave us a ride in his jeep to our house. I ate some bread and saltine cracker things and was out sleeping for like 3 hours. When i woke up i felt like it was a bad fever and so i called hermana nancollas again. She told me to call the doctor because she doenst know whats wrong with me. I felt comforted. haha I called the mish doctor (i was thinking that if uncle Ralph would have answered he probably would have told me to take something and to not be a girl and to go work) I felt lame, ive never had to call hermana nancollas and it was my plan to never have to call her. So the doctor said that its really probable that i have a virus thats going around. He said that if i feel twice as worse on Monday than its the virus.... (Monday is now, and i feel great) so im glad it wasnt the virus. I dont really know what happened, but Satan knew that we were going to have a lot of success and bring a lot of people to church so he had to stop us. So we didnt even know what to report about having people in church because we didnt even go. PRetty crazy.
The good things is that the Lord protects his servants and now i feel better. (I was debating whether or not to share that story with you mom because i didnt want you to freak out and call my mission president or something....so dont do that) im fine now.
Anyways that was my week. Pretty interesting one. The work is still going well. I love it. Being a missionary is awesome.
OH, i got Ambers wedding announcement. They are a cute couple and i am VERY happy for her. Tell her congrats and that i love her.
Also a shoutout to Grandma and Grandpa Riggs.... Feliz Cumpleaños!
Oh and to answer the question about the floods....No.... Supposedly it should be over with by now, but they started late this year and will probably take another month or so to stop.... That could be part of the reason why i got sick because that water is nasty.... who knows...
Anyways The church is true. This is the work of the Lord and i feel really blessed to be a part of it. I know God lives and wants our happiness. Jesus is the Christ. I started reading that again in spanish. The last time i tried it was pretty hard to understand, but now my vocab is a lot better. I love you all!
Con amor,
Elder Heap
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