Hey family,
Well it was a great week. We are seeing huge strides of improvement in the zone and especially in my district. We are looking to be able to have some good weeks coming up. Usually if we put more baptismal dates and take more people to church good things happen.
I think my letter might be a lil quick this week and I apologize. We have to run. We are going to go grab something quick to eat hang up our clothes that are washing right now and then going to a district meeting which is on the other side of the city of Queretaro. THEN we are going to take a 3 hour bus ride to go sleep at the offices because tomorrow we have a zone leader meeting. Elder Christensen got invited. That means he is going up this next change so I am way excited for that.
ANYWAYS, I´ll get to the important things. This week I did interchanges with the senior companions of the 2 other companionships in my district. (As zone leader ´´menor´´ I have a district and a zone, its cool though) So Wednesday I went with Elder Perez. He had 2 people to baptize on Saturday so I did the interviews and it was fun to be able to teach him some stuff and learn from him as well. He´s a good Elder from Guadalajara. The people in his area are really rude though and when we tried to give out passalong cards they would look at them and throw them on the ground or not accept them. It was lame. It motivated us more though and we contacted like a million people that day. It was a fun day.
Friday I went with Elder Nuñez. He is from Baja California. He has 6 weeks less time than I do in the mission and it was a fun day. His area is HUGE though. To get to one of his appointments we took a 45 minute bus ride and we were like 10 minutes away from Guanajuato (its another state and not in our mission) His ward is one of the richest wards in the mission. It was fun to eat lunch in a mansion. I felt like I was in the estate groves ward for a little bit. I actually ate lunch a couple blocks away from Elder Lyons house. He is a general authority, of the 70 and lives in that ward. The whole day was hard to find investigators and contact and it was frustrating, but it all was worth it. It was hard mostly because of the crazy wind, hail and rainstorm that randomly showed up after a hot morning. We sprinted from appointment to appointment. That night we had a family night with an ex-bishop who just arrived to their ward. He invited a few families. It turned out to be an awesome lesson. We taught the restoration and put baptismal dates with all of them. The spirit was really strong. It was a family of 4 and then another lady and her daughter. Putting 6 baptismal dates in one appointment is not to bad. They all accepted. The hermano that is a member gave a strong testimony and congratulated them on their decision to be baptized. He told them ´´if you get baptized and keep strong in the faith, you will change your lives´´ I think having a lesson with member is always more powerful.
Alright, I´ll get to Sunday real quick. We were way excited to have a ton of people, but almost all of them fell. The people that we really wanted to go to church didnt go. They got sick or left out of town or other lame excuses. We felt so bad and frustrated. After a long week of hard work, it´s hard not to see the fruits. However, one investigator that we didnt think would go, went. His name is Luis. His wife is a member and has been for 10 years. He has listened to the missionaries many many times and has lost count of how many companionships have taught him. He goes out of town a lot and so the missionaries give up on him. He has never had the desire or felt the need to be baptized, but we thought we´d give it a shot. We have been teaching him lately. Usually not more than 1 or 2 times a week at the most. He hasn´t gone to church because he has been gone, but he went yesterday. He and his wife have the cutest little girl named Andrea (she´s 4) and since the first time we visited his house I could see that they could become a wonderful eternal family.
At church we made an appointment for that night (last night) We went over there with the idea to put a baptismal date with him and teach him about the family proclamation para el mundo. While reading the family proclamation I could see his whole countenance change. At the end he was tearing up a little bit and we explained how ´´There are more posibilites to receive happiness in the family when you base it on the principles of the gospel of Jesus Christ´´ (I dont know how it goes in english, but thats my translation) We explained that to have an eternal family we have to be married and sealed in the temple. If we do that and follow the commandments we will live in the presence of God with our families forever. We taught that to achieve that, it is important to take the first steps of the gospel.... have faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, Repent and Baptism for the remision of sins. My companion invited him to get baptized this 30th of January and he responded with tears in his eyes ´´por supuesto que si´´ In english that means ´´of course I will´´ My smile grew from ear to ear and his wife started crying a little bit. He is going to be an awesome member of the church. The problem in the last few years has been his work, but now he has more flexibility. He has been prepared and it´s his time. God has that time for everyone. I love it.
So.... after suffering many afflictions and frustrations and learning how to have even more patience in my mission.....We got to see some fruits. I think baptizing Luis is going to be better than baptizing 10 other people because they have the goal to go the temple and have an eternal family
I am grateful for my eternal family. I love you all so much!
Con amor,
Elder Greg Heap
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