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Monday, November 2, 2015
Week 35
Wow what a week it was for me they do celebrate Halloween here but they celebrate it for 3 days there still celebrating it its called dia de muertos and they believe that the spirits of our ancestors come and visit us the 1st of November so they all put food on there tables and candles and stuff and they all eat and they put photos of the people that they want to come and visit them on the tables and they believe that they come and eat with us so that was pretty crazy but besides that we carved pumpkins with the hermanas in our area because the 2 Mexicans have never carved pumpkins they don't do that here haha but it was kind of sucky because it was fast Sunday on Halloween so we didn't eat any candy haha but i did buy a big skeleton chocolate head so that's cool this week i know that our Savior loves us with out a doubt we have a new investigator he is 27 his name is Alberto and he has cancer we gave him a blessing on Halloween and taught him the restoration he expressed his feelings to us after the blessing and i know that we really have the priesthood here on this earth i know that every single one of us can be forgiven of our sins i love you all so much and i love this gospel i know that if we live worthy of the spirit that we can really be guided in our lives i know that all of us have difficulties in our life and questions i know that god answers our prayers we just need to ask him we have the key to the door to heaven and God never locks the door
Monday, October 26, 2015
Week 34 Ermita October 26, 2015
bueno toda vΓa tango churillo!!!!! haha i dont think any of you are gonna know what that means... but that's alright look it up ha this week was pretty good pretty plain nothing to exciting happened except for Elder Brent Nelson and his wife of the Quorum of the 70 came and talked in our stake conference and that was super awesome Saturday we had a priesthood session at 4 and then the general at 7 haha me and my companion didn't know if we were suppose to go to the 4 o clock priesthood session or not so we just went haha we were the only missionaries there after the session i talked to my zone leaders and i was like man you guys missed out on the priesthood session it was great and they were like dude we weren't suppose to go to that and we were like ya well no one told us and i was like well if were gonna be rebellious missionaries that was a pretty good thing to do ha ha it was a great session he talked about our role as priesthood holders and he said that in order this is our roles
1st role is to be a husband
2nd to be a father
3rd employee or employer
4th church calling
lots of us were kind of shocked that that was the order but he told us that 1st we always need to have good and our relationship with him and our wife is first but then he said if the 1st three things aren't in order we cant do our church calling it was a great talk it really touched my heart i in the other sessions the night session and Sunday morning they talked a lot about missionary work but the thing they talked most about is
family home evening
family scripture study
family pray
Elder Nelson didn't know Spanish so he talked in English but he told a lot of great stories he told a story that i really really liked he said that when he was a stake president in there house in Idaho falls they had a sand box in the back yard and that there boy loved playing in it he said that they only had one rule no water in the sand box because after it will turn in to mud and it will make a huge mess he said one day he came home from work he saw the hose all rung out and leading to the back yard he went into the backyard and saw his son covered in mud playing in the sand box having a great time he said he was very mad he said i had a bad day at work and so he grabbed his boy by the hand sprayed him off with the hose told him he was very disappointed with him and that he new that that was a rule and sent him in the house crying he said after when he was winding up the hose the lord gave him a revelation he said that the lord said to him Brent every single other person in your stake has a loving stake president but your son does not he said from that day forward that he wanted his son to grow up good in the church and he said that our kids are gonna see how our heavenly father is for how our earthly father is if our earthly father is mean to him he is going to think our heavenly father is mean so he said if we want our kids to know that they have a loving heavenly father we have to be a loving earthly father this story really touched me and i know that we need to be examples to our kids he said our kids can teach us a lot of things patience which I'm sure i taught a lot of this to my parents hahaha they can teach you love and they can teach your how to keep the commandments
he also said that when he was a stake president lots of couples would come in to there office and say president our marriage is falling apart its because he doesn't show enough attention to me and she doesn't do this or that and he said well our you doing family home evening our you doing family prayer our you doing family scripture study and they said well we know that we need to do that but Brent tell us the things that our really important that will really help us and he said well our you doing family home evening every week haha our you doing scripture and prayer every night he said these our the things most important this is my challenge for all of you i know its hard and I'm sure I'm gonna learn a lot more how hard it is when i have a family but i know that if we do these every day and the same time that we will be blessed and we will be happy and closer as a family Elder Nelson and his wife have 8 kids and he said we are blessed because every single on of them served missions every single one of them our now married and sealed in the temple he said lots of people would come up to him and ask how did you raise such a good family and he said that he had family night scripture study and prayed as a family and went to church i know that this is true he said something else really funny haha sorry I'm talking a lot about this but this is really all that happened this week he said sometimes alot of you can see that the mom has 5 kids but she is raising 6 kids haha he said this cant be how it is the mom cant raise the dad haha he said that it says in the family proclamation that it is the dads job to lead his family to lead the family home evenings to lead scripture and family prayer
i know that this church is true and i know that i am learning things that really will help me in my future i love this gospel i know that our Savior Jesus Christ is our teacher in this life when i was sitting in conference Elder Nelson was baring his testimony about Jesus and i was sitting next to a pregnant lady haha i don't know if she was just really pregnant and emotional but i noticed that she was crying as he was baring his testimony about our redeemer Jesus Christ i know that we all have the power to bare our testimony don't be afraid bare your testimony to your friends and family members just like this pregnant Mexican lady is was sitting by you can touch someones heart i love you all and i am very grateful and humbled for everything you do for me God is good and he loves us all don't forget it
Have a great week
WITH LOTS OF LOVE
ELDER TAMS πππ
Monday, October 19, 2015
Week 33 Enrique's Baptism
Great week here in beautiful Mexico its been pretty cold haha i cant catch a break now i have a cold but besides that what a great week we baptized Enrique Gonzalez on Saturday well our mission President did haha after the baptism we had a activity and cleaned our church and after ate tacos then watched Ephraim's Rescue what a sick movie it was super cool besides that we have just been working we are gonna have another baptism in 2 weeks because this next week we have stake conference well besides that haha life is good I'm happy i love being here sometimes its hard but i know that our father in heaven is watching over us and that this is his work i love you all and i know that its hard i have hard times in the mission i really do I'm not gonna lie sometimes i feel like my Spanish isn't as good as the other missionaries or that i don't know the scriptures like other people but the truth is that the most important thing to do that I'm learning and if you can do this as a missionary you will have success is love the people learn to show your love i love my companion he is a super good dude he is a recent convert of one year and a half but sometimes i just want to punch him in the face when i get impatient haha and i cant speak Spanish so I'm grateful for him and his patience with me haha in the video Ephraims Rescue i like it alot because Ephraim wasn't always the best kid haha just like me but when he came to know the truth he always tried to live worthy of his priesthood and to be a instrument in the lords hands and that's what I'm trying to do i love being a Mormon and i love sharing the gospel i am finding the most joy in all of my life
le amo toda ustedes son mi carnalesMonday, October 12, 2015
Week 32 Area 2
well what a week it has been my lovely friends i cant describe the joy i have felt this week it has been a miracle week haha so this week me and my companion were just trying to work really hard teach lots of lessons and teach new people we had a list of all of the less actives in our ward and we were searching them we knocked on a less actives door Brenda Gonzales and asked if we could share something with her her husband was there with her and he looks like Santa clause he is freaking sick haha i started talking with him i noticed he had a super cool guitar and right now I'm trying to learn the guitar so i asked him about it asked him if he new how to play he said a kind of not a ton he was being humble haha he picked up the guitar and he seriously is like professional so i guess back in the day he played the guitar on a little boat on a river for people haha anyways he is not a member his name is Enrique Gonzales we started talking i guess he has had all the lessons he has gone to church with his family for about a year because there all members we asked him why hes not baptized and he said ya know i was almost baptized but i had my interview with a elder and he told me i couldn't get baptized because i like to throw back a tequila every once in a while i could tell that he was discouraged i told him haha please don't get mad grandpa but i told him you know what you remind me a lot of my grandpa Enrique i think you guys would get along awesome he also has a Harley i told him my grandpa also likes to throw down a couple tequilas every once and awhile hahahe told me ya know what i want to get baptized but i also want to drink my tequila and play my guitar i told him well you know what you cant have both my friend trust me i know i told him he said i don't want to get baptized because i know maybe in a couple of months I'm gonna have a cerbaza i told him its not important the most important thing for us in this life is to get baptized while we are here i told him people make mistakes just because you get baptized doesn't mean you have to be perfect but i can tell that you want to be better its more important in this life that we are baptized by the priesthood of god so we can enter into the path to follow Christ i know that there's a lot of people that i know that are in this path they have made the covenants but they are not trying here best to follow them i know that when we follow our covenants the best that we can and follow our perfect example the lord Jesus Christ that our father in heaven will help us to be the people that we want to be....... anyways long story short he didn't want to have a interview with another Elder so i told him i could call my President and that he could have a special interview with him he said okay sounds good let me know so i called president and Saturday morning they had there interview they really hit it off president and our investigator they talked for about 2 hours and pres cam out of the interview and said lets baptize him he said that he was singing to president in the interview about god haha he is such a stud so good news this next Saturday we have a baptism at 12 wohoooo i know that everyone has there right time i know that maybe its not your time right now to follow Jesus Christ but i know that he is always here for you and that when you want to receive the blessing that our loving father has for us his arms are open to mold you into the person you want to be
i love missionary work after this we are going bowling with some other missionaries so I'm super pumped about that i love you all so much oh ya yesterday i bore my testimony in testimony meeting about families and that its the most important thing on this earth and that I'm here to help all of your families anyways a good good week for me thank you to everyone for making this possible that i can serve my Savior every single day
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