.......one of the craziest weeks of my mission!

Hey family....

Probably one of the craziest weeks of my mission.  As of right this moment I haven´t slept since Friday night because of all the craziness, but after I finish this email I´m going to bed until tomorrow....
Well Elder Memmott and I finished out strong.  We had the baptism of Fabian.  He is great.  He is already attending institute and has already gone 2 to single adult activities.  He is way sweet.  He is already in Alma in the Book of Mormon and I´m pretty sure that he loves reading it.  His baptismal service was yesterday after the afternoon session (I got to see all the sessions)  The room where the baptism was held was overflowing and Fabian had a lot of support.  It was great and he is going to be way strong.

It was great also to see Javier and Martha, Paty, Luis, Josefina, Karina, Javier, Laura and Tomas and a few other new investigators at conference.  Especially since right after the baptism I got my bags together and took off for the offices of the mission.

I guess I´ll rewind a lit bit in the week.  Elder Memmott and I had a rough week being ´Holy Week´ down here.  We worked way hard, but there were a lot of people on vacation and we didnt see too many fruits, but it felt good to have a strong week.  We did a few interchanges and were figuring out solutions to all the problems in the zone and it was very gratifying to see some of the problems get fixed immediately in this last week.

Another cool thing that happened was that of Javier and Laura´s family.  Even though they still haven´t gotten baptized, we have recieved some huge news from Xochitl.  They would have gotten baptized on Sunday, but Xochitl and Abraham left on Friday.  Before leaving though Xochitl called us over and told us that she had some big news for us.  She said that she has decided to get baptized with her family and that she will get baptized this month.  We were some pumped after working many weeks with them.  I was filled so much with happiness even though it´s possible that I might not be there for their baptism.  They are going to be great converts.  The rest of the fam enjoyed conference and were tellin us how great it would have been to get baptized on conference Sunday.  I´m going to try to pull some strings to go to the baptism, but the only thing that is holding me back a little bit is that Queretaro is way far.

Sooooo....... I had been thinking since my interviews that I would go back to Atotonilco to finish my mission there in that zone.  It was the first time in my mission that I was way off.  I got a phone call from President Nancollas on Thursday.  He told me how many challenges there are in the mission, how many leaders are going home in the next few months and the need the mission has to get future leaders prepared.  He then told me that we were going to have some major changes in the mission because of the division of the mission in July.  So, for my last few changes I´m going to be what President Nancollas calls ´´his personal traveling assistant´´  I didnt really know what that meant on Thursday, but I got a little taste of what that means today.  Elder Molyneaux (Molino) and I were both call to that assignment and basically we are just going to be taking 1-2 weeks with a lot of the future leaders to help prepare them to be better district leaders and zone leaders.  I wont have an area or a zone.  That part is kind of lame, but I´m excited for the opportunity.

As part of my new assignment I had to come last night to the offices because at 2:30 a.m. we had to go take the missionaries that were going home to the airport.  Among them was Elder Romney and Elder Arnett.  That was pretty cool to go drop them off in the airport.  I took some pics.  What was not cool was the fact that my bus from Queretaro to the offices took 5 hours because of traffic and a wicked detour.  I finally got to the offices by myself after searching for a taxi with all my bags at 11:00 at night.  Anyways back to the other fun activities without sleep..... At 4:30 a.m. we went to the Mexican MTC to pick up the new Mexican Elders (and 1 sister misionera)  Then after attempting to sleep for an hour without success, the greenies got in the vans with their luggage and we took them to President and Sister Nancollas´ house for there training meeting and so President could assign them to their new trainers.  It took forever.  We gave them examples of how to put baptismal dates and invite people to church and other funny situations (like if your trainer has a cell phone when he shouldn´t, etc.)

So I am super stoked for the next few weeks.  A few of the Elders that I might train will be Elder Golledge (who is training and is a district leader now) Elder Carrillo (also a district leader)  and Elder Perez from Guadalajara who was in my district in Queretaro for a change.  There are a lot of others too, but those are a few that you probably know.  It is going to be fun.  Today after the training meeting for the newbies.  Elder Allen, Elder Anaya (the office assistants) Elder Molino and I had a meeting with President giving advice and counseling together to figure out what would be the best options to do in the next few weeks.  We are probably going to go with Zone Leaders as well so we have a lot of work to do.

Right now I am in the offices.... Im not sure if Im going to go directly with some missionaries tomorrow or wait for the American missionaries to get here to do the training meeting for them.  It will be an adventure every day and I´ll probably end up working in every zone of the mission.  It will be great!  I´m afraid that I´ll blink and my mission will be over.  Im just going to fight and give it all to the end.

I loved conference.  Priesthood session was AMAZING.  Elder Eyrings´ talk was awesome.  President Monson couldnt have been more direct and I loved it.  That is pretty much how we have to be with the people so that they really understand and change their lives.  The Prophets and Apostles are such great examples.  I also thought it was way cool about the Forrest family in Elder Andersens´ talk.  I enjoyed Elder Uchtdorfs´ talk about love.  Elder Rasbund (sp) talk on callin missionaries was way awesome too and I know that God has called me through one of His servant´s so that I can be here where HE wants me to be.

The work is true.  God lives and directs it through a living prophet and servants who guide us.  Jesus is the Christ and the Savior of the world.  Love you!  Have a great week!

Con amor,
Elder Greg Heap