Reportin from Ecatepunk

The weeks keep flyin by. We had an awesome week. Elder Francis is teachin me a bunch and our zone is doin well.

Weekly recap....
Tuesday we had the zone leader council with President Nancollas and it went really well. I got to teach the zone leaders ``how to be more organized to have success`` I dont remember when I got more organized with my life, but it seems to help. The meeting took up almost the whole day, but I got a lot out of it. President Nancollas is the man.
Wednesday we had a bunch of appointments all day. We have 26 people that we are teaching. We had about half of them go to church so that was nice. Sorry if I dont talk about each one of them personally, but there are just a lot. The people that are going to get baptized or that have already been baptized are..... Marisol (she was in jail for a while for ``attempting to steal a car`` when her mom got baptized....she is way tight....she might get baptized next week) Juan Carlos (He also has family members that are members and he really wants to get baptized. He used to not be able to go to church, but now he can yeeeah) Perla (She was someone that Elder Francis and Elder Arnett contacted in the street... She might get baptized on Sunday as well) Amalia and fam. (We baptized Amalia on Sunday we are now teaching a lot of her family members...7 to be exact...) Olga and kids (She is a reference from a member that is way interested, she went to the first time on Sunday with her daughter her son and her son-in-law) Juana and kids (She has gone the last two weeks and will probably get baptized the 15th of November... They are finantially struggling, but love the gospel) etc. etc.
Those are basically the people in our basket of investigators. It`s a big basket. I love teaching the gospel. I love testifying things that I know to be true. I love being able to feel the spirit on a daily basis and help others to feel it too.
Thursday was kinda the same, a lot of appointments, but we also went to do interviews for an Elder in my zone. It was a family of 4. A mom and her 3 kids. In the interview she was expressing her doubts and how she isn`t sure if she wants to get baptized. She said that she knows that it is true, but that she wants to wait to learn more. It was a really spiritual 45 minute interview. I shared a lot of scriptures with her and told her the importance of having faith in the Lord. We left the interview way edified and her and her 3 kids got baptized on Saturday. It was a highlight of the week for me.
Friday started off well. We found some new investigators and went to eat. Then, out of nowhere, a rainstorm hit. IT was so intense. The streets turned into rivers and the umbrella that a member let us borrow broke. I even heard that in the D.F. 9 people died. Pretty scary. We took some pics (that hopefully ill send today) that are pretty funny. We couldnt really get anywhere because the streets on both sides trapped us in. We got soaked. Francis (after about 30 mins) told me that we were close to an hermanas house. We went over there and they gave us clothes to put on (we had to squeeze into the clothes)and she dried our clothes with an iron. She made us a lemon herbal tea and gave us cereal with hot milk. She was so nice.
Saturday we went to the baptism of that lady that i interviewed in the morning and then had to make sure all of our investigators were goin to go to church. We also had to go visit Elder Christiansen to do an interview. Life is a lot busier as a zone leader. Its crazy.
We didnt have much of a Halloween. We just had a really awesome member family invite us over for dinner. She asked if I wanted CREPES. It has been over 16 months that i have eaten crepes. They werent quite as good as yours mom, but they were worth it.
Sunday we had 12 people go to church. It was awesome. We also had the baptism of Amalia that was really spiritual. I love Sundays. They are stressful, but also really spiritual. AND its always better when we baptize.

That was my week. I was informed about the Ravens/Broncos game last night and I was way pumped to hear about the big win. Thats tight. Tell Bead to keep workin and he`ll see the blessings. Don`t you fret Bead. Send me pics of the transformers and all my nieces and nephews halloween pics. haha That is way sweet. I´m glad you had fun with the Francis`s. My comp told me about the sweet fishing trip we`re goin to do. You are all just party animals.
Well Im really happy always. I hope you all are as well. Life is great. For me in the mission, I have had lots of trials and tests of Faith, but all that is so much easier to get through with an eternal perspective and good gospel principles.
Thanks for all your love and support. I pray for all of you daily.
Have a great week!

Con amor,
Elder Heap



We baptized a lady named Amalia on Sunday. She gave her testimony afterwards and it was really sweet