...100% obedience mixed with Hard and Intelligent Work, and following the Spirit, is the key to Success.

Hey fam....

Back at the offices.  Time is flying.  Each week goes by faster than the last. 

This week I was with Elder Meraz.  He is a stud.  He is 26 years old from Torreon, Mexico.  He is already a licensed international lawyer, but decided to serve a mission and is really here for the right reasons.  He actually was supposed to start the mission the same time i did, but he got sick in the CCM and had to wait over a year.  He is one of my favorite comps that I´ve had, even though I was only with him a week.  He says that I should do law school so we can be associates in Salt Lake.  haha  He speaks pretty good english.  My first night with him he came in while I was unpacking and gave me a new tie and a soccer jersey.  He said that he always likes to welcome his new comps. with somethin to show his appreciation for them.  President is plannin on moving him up as a zone leader this next change.  He deserves it.  He has baptized every week this change and his district is leading the mission right now.  Before the week started, President just told me to go teach him how to take control of a zone and have success as a leader.  He´s a great teacher and is always excited to help people learn of the gospel.  I learned a lot myself.  It was a great week. 

A lot of things happened this week also.  Elder Meraz is in the area of Ciudad Labor which is right next door to Valle de Tules.  We started working and to my surprise he took me to the street of Maria and Jose Antonio (my converts from over a year ago)  We stopped by real quick to say hi and to see how they´ve been doin.  They were way excited to see me and Hermana Maria started screamin when she saw me at her door.  She screamed to her husband ´´it´s Heap, it´s Heap!´´  They havent been going to church the last couple months because they have been visiting Jose Antonio´s dad on the weekends.  He has been sick.  We invited them to go to church in the Ciudad Labor ward (with the new division of the 2 wards, they now are supposed to go to that ward anyways)  She brought her daughter, Brenda, who isn´t a member so Elder Meraz is going to start teaching her.  Elder Meraz told me that he´ll call me if she decides to get baptized so I can go and baptize her.  That would be way sweet.  It´s in my plans to go visit them when you guys come down to pick me up.

This week we worked extremely hard.  100% obedience mixed with Hard and Intelligent Work, and following the Spirit, is the key to success.  I think I was able to help in a few little things. 

My next assignment, I will be in Cuautitlan.  I´m going to be with Elder Carrillo and his comp Elder Leon.  It should be fun.  President also has plans to move him up as a zone leader this next change.  It is almost the same assignment as last week.  I will be with him just one week. 

Tomorrow we have a future leaders training meeting.  Over 50 Elderes are comin here to the offices tomorrow.  It will be a good meeting.  We are basically just goin to divide up into 4 groups and do pracitces and teach all the future leaders.  We are also going to focus on OBEDIENCE.  Right now, the mission has takin a little dip down in its´ obedience level so President Nancollas has a presentation on that to help us all see the importance of being 100%. 

Yesterday I hit the 22 month mark.  That is pretty crazy.  Elder Molino freaks me out every Sunday when he calls me to say how many weeks we have left before going home.  It freaks me out thinking that the weeks I have left fit on the fingers of my hands.  I remember when Elder Romney had the time that I had and the weeks just flew by.  Now he almost has a month being home. 

Today has been fun so far.  We had our meeting with President Nancollas.  It is sweet that he has such confidence in us to make pretty big decisions.  We pretty much just council about missionaries and look for solutions to help the mission improve as a whole.  It´s a lot of responsibility.  We plan for future transfers and the division of the mission.  We make phone calls and email the stake presidents.  We take numbers from the zone leaders.  We put together Excel spreadsheets with the averages and numbers of the mission.  We look at tendencies and correlations and then make plans and pray about what we need to do to get answers to fix the problems. 

I´ve been learning a lot.

Well I´m glad everything is good at home.  Prom looked fun Bead.  Send pictures Car Car.  Brooklyn looks like an amazing (and very cute) coach-pitch player.  That sounds like a sweet opportunity for Brad Gulbrandsen.  Tell him I love him.  Elder Christensen is coming to the offices tonight and we are going to plan this itinerary thing so that you dont worry mom.  I´ll send it to you tonight, or next week.  In the meanwhile, I´m going to get my camera downstairs to send ya´ll some pics.

Well fam, I love you all.  Keep the faith and trust in the Lord.

I love the Savior.  I get to know Him more and more each day.  I know He lives.  I know He paid for our sins.  I know that if we will follow Him, we will be happy.  I know that this is His church and that He guides and directs it through modern prophets.  I know that He knows and loves us and that if we become as He is, we will be together forever in eternal happiness.

Con amor,
Elder Greg Heap