June 2, 2014
Hey everyone! I hope you all had a great week and are doing
well! I can’t believe that I have been here for 29 week already and almost have
7 months in my mission!! Just a few things from out here to catch you all up
on:
First just some news from San Mateo Atenco... This week my
package arrived from my mom and it was awesome getting some American Food and a
late Birthday present! Second, a part of our little town flooded this past
week, it was raining really, really hard and the river overflowed into the
streets and there was about a foot of water in the streets for about 4 hours.
Also, my zone leader Elder Vargas got the chicken pox, he has to stay in for
another 2 weeks so we temporarily have a new zone leader from Utah named Elder
Noel. Lastly, yesterday we had our dinner really, really far away and there was
a huge Catholic festival in the little town we needed to go trough and so no
buses were running. We walked about 2 hours to our dinner and had to walk back
through the huge parade. I am not really sure why but the parade had a ton of
people who were cross dressing... and of course being the only white person in
the whole crowd everyone thought it would be really funny to try and hit on
me... “Guero, vente guero”... which means White boy, come here white boy...
just a little funny story that I thought I’d add.
Secondly, just an update from the ward and area here. I love
the ward that we are in. The ward out here is a lot more like a ward in the
United States. Some things they have that the other ward here lack are things
such as: Church attendance, active young men and young women, mutual, etc. The
majority of the people in this area are a lot better off than in my last area
and the majority of them have visas for the United States and visit there, like
and follow football (American football) and basketball. They give me updates
all the time... haha. We have some amazing ward member such as Sister Colin.
Wow I have never met anyone like Sister Colin. Imagine Sister Campbell on
steroids.... she loves missionary work and takes her calling so seriously. She
is a ward missionary and literally goes up and down the street contacting
people and looking for people for us to teach as if she were a full time
missionary. She gives us about 4-5 references to us each week and the 2 people
who were baptized last week were her friends that she met contacting in the
street. Lastly we have a lot of young men in this ward who are all super funny
and they all love me. It is really nice to feel like the missionary that I
always loved and wanted to be when we had missionaries in Seattle and New York.
Sorry I have been kind of lacking on the spiritually
experiences and I will try and do better with that, so here are a few spiritual
experiences from this week:
First: We met a family this week that let us in and wanted
us to teach them, they were really enveloped in the lesson and loved everything
we taught. They have a 16-year old daughter who loved everything we taught and
was really focused. After the lesson the mom, Rosa, pulled us aside and thanked
us for everything and started to explain and that her daughter is really, really
rebellious and they always fight and that during our lesson that was the most
calm she has ever seen here daughter and that she wants us to continue to teach
her. It was so cool to see how even such a small little lesson from the gospel
of Jesus Christ can really have such a huge impact on the lives of others.
Second: This week we got a call from the Young Women’s
president to come over to her house immediately because she had someone for us
to teach. Sister Ingry and her husband both work a lot and have a little kid,
although Sister Ingry works from home she always has a lot to do and hired a
Nanny named Pati. The day sister Ingry called us she had us come over to teach
her nanny. That day Pati had an emotional breakdown. Pati is 16 years old, her
mom passed away when she was little, and her dad is abusive. About 2 years ago
she moved out to live with her older sister. The day we went to teach Pati she
was crying because she really missed her mom. Sister Ingry was so sweet, so
kind and loving and really acted like the mom that Pati doesn’t have. When we
arrived at the house we had an amazing lesson about the Plan of Salvation and
the things that Pati needs to do to be able to live with her mom again forever.
She was so grateful for the lesson but the best part was the love and testimony
that Sister Ingry shared. You could tell how much she truly loved and cared for
Pati and it was amazing to see that Christ-like love. This made me think of the
Hymn "Love one another". In the hymn it says "Ye are my
disciples IF ye have love one to another". A lot of the times as
missionaries and members of the church we over look the importance of true
Christ-like love. Really all of us can be a little more like Sister Ingry.
Well I hope you all have a great week and I hope you all
know that I love you and miss you tons! Thank you for all your love and
support!
Love,
Elder Adams
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