this week was a great week Pres. talked to us about the vision what he has always talked about the vision of the mountain and that he wants the mission to keep progressing like the mountain just keep going up and up that were not on a roller coaster but that we can get better and better!! more and more baptisms and its something that has helped me a lot were not perfect but if we put goals in our lives then we can keep getting better and better we have a vision in our zone teaching investigators with members and our goal is 10 lessons every week for the zone this last week we taught 83 lessons with member present in our zone and it doubled from all the other weeks we have had so we our just going to keep on going keep getting better and better pour zone is doing great and its been really cool to see the progress in the zone this week we taught a lot about addiciones we have 2 investigators that have problems with drinking and a less active that were trying to help quit smoking before his 2 kids get back from the mission so he can go to the temple with them! its been really awesome for me and a huge testimony strengthener because i have had to overcome addiciones in my life and as i have testified of the power of Jesus Christ and his atonement to these people i have been able to do it with confidence and with power cuz i know the change that can come from Jesus Christ! so if you guys could pray for these people it would be great so that they can give up there addiciones they are doing awesome and they really want too get better one of them almost had he baptismal interview this week cuz she has stopped drinking for 2 weeks but she decided she wants to wait a little longer but there names our carlos he is 21 he wants to give up drinking and drugs cuz he has a 5 year old daughter that he doesn't get to see that much and he wants to get better for her the other one is tania she has 3 kids one of them is member she is a single mom and she wants to also change for her kids its awesome the power that all the kids have to help there parents and to love them and be a good example on them family i just want you to know that there is no other path that brings more joy in this life then the path that god has giving us with our family's the path that will bring us home to him! i know you guys can do it that if any of you have addiciones that you can do it it comes from the little things the first time you guys say no to a cigarette or a drink of beer it'll be hard but then the 2nd and 3rd time it'll get easier and easier and you will get power form the atonement of Jesus Christ he wants us to have happiness in our lives and joy but we just have to make the little decisiones to do it!! it hasn't been easy for me being on the mission it was really hard for me to get up at 630 every day haha and when a missionary doesn't do that it just starts your day off bad and you just feel like a failure.. but i can honestly say from the little decisiones just every day at 630 hey you know what im going to get up god has blessed me in my mission more then i can tell you has taught me how to work how to be diligent and that obedience really does bring happiness and blessings im still not perfect and ill never be in this life but im learning im getting better im learning how to change my life and it has brought more happiness then i can express you guys can all do it you can all be what god wants of you!!! President talked to us about the pornography and he said that his son is in the army in Afghanistan and that every time they find the cell phone of a terrorist or people that have just done horrible things there cell phones our just full of pornography he said stay away form it he said it is what is going to destroy this world!! and its the truth i have seen it to many times with friends or family or here in the mission it destroys families!! in the mission there is still temptation here there is a bunch of news stands on like every corner and the news here is just covered in porn and we are in the street all day so it has helped me so much that every time i walk bye these stands i don't look i look away or i look at the ground cuz i know whats over there and i want nothing to do with that in my life it destroys our thoughts and our purity and our deception of women
i love you guys and i just want you to know the things that our church teaches our true that i have taught these same things to people familys here in mexico with confidence cuz i know that i am a worthy man and i have seen mothers cry and feel the spirit becuase they nkow that this is what they need in there tlives i invite all of you my little cousins my uncles aunts friends stay away from these things be strong say no the first time and then the rest it will get easier and easier and you guys will see the blessing in your lives :) i love you guys with all my heart!❤
Elder Tams
