Week 83 pics

Week 83

well its been a great week we had the huge opportunity to go to the temple with our recent converts!! its a really good feeling lots of joy to be able to be in the temple with someone that you have baptized and each one of them brought names from there family to baptize for them my joy was so immense!! for the first time i confirmed the people in the temple and it was honestly a really awesome feeling for me because all of my life going and doing baptisms for the dead i always so the guys that were confirming and i looked at them like angels they were all in white and old with white hair and as i was confirming the people haha it was really funny cuz the names were in Spanish and i was kind of choppering some of them and i was kind of embarrassed so i told my comp alright its your turn and he started saying the names ahha and then he passed me th paper cuz he started choppering them cuz they were in English but something that really helped me is i was saying the names and i wasn't like yelling them but just talking normally how i do and then a white old man all in white cam in and he told me hey talk quieter let the spirit come in! and so on the next one i confirmed i did that i was almost whispering and they spirit that i felt was so big and so strong! so im going to start putting that in practice as im teaching the people the spirit is a big help in the misison its what keeps me going!! so yesterday i got changes my new comp is Elder Rico he is from new mexico he is going home with me too in February hes really cool we had a lot of changes in our zone im super pumped we have like 5 brand new missionary in our zone and like 5 or 6 white dudes and some really great missionaries so im really excited for this next change we put a goal for 30 baptisms in all of our zone for the month of November so if you guys could talk to God and tell him that we really want to baptize i would appreciate it :)man guys im loving the mission god loves us so much he really does!! im constantly thinking of Anna and how she's doing in her mission she gives me a lot of pride to know that she's serving the good old Lord !! going to the temple was really a good feeling for me!! and as i  was helping others to receive there baptism!! there was some names that i confirmed and instantly i just felt gratitude for them and i could feel how happy they were that they were just waiting for someone to do this ordinance the temple is truly a blessing and i cherish my recommend and the fact that im worthy to have one our mission president one day pulled out his recommend and said elders and sisters this is the most important thing to me in this world because thanks to this card and being worthy to be in the house of the Lord i can be in the eternities with my family ! i know that its true FAMILYIES CAN BE TOGETHER FOREVER!  in the mission i have had the opportunity to be with a sad sad depressed mother and father a week after there baby boy died.... and as i was crying with them i testified that they can see there precious baby boy again! i don't know if they got baptized but i know i planted a seed in them and i know that God loves us! i invite all of you my family and friends to strive to have and to be worthy of a temple recommend i thank you guys so much for all your love! and i want you guys to know that i love you and that i know that if there were anything that would ever happen to you guys i know i will see you again one day!!

Con Mucho Amor .Elder Tams 

Week 82 pics

Week 82

hello my wonderful family :):) this week was a great week conference was super awesome i absolutely loved it defiantly the best and most spiritual conference I have had so far in my life as a raised my arm to sustain the Prophet i was filled with joy because i just new that he was a prophet of God !my favorite talk was of k. brett Natres when he talked about the story of his mom reading the scriptures to him and his brothers every morning it brought me to tears cuz i though of my wonderful angelic mother and my old man and all of the times that we did family prayer and family scripture study and i just remember my attitude that i did not want to be there but i can honestly say that now in my mission that experience has blessed me so much Mom.. Dad thank you so much i am grateful for you guys and i love you! besides that we had our meeting with the leaders of the mission and with Pres. and our focus was on our prayers on the prayers we are doing in the morning and how efficase they really are and we talked about the book of Mormon and the new focus in the mission is going to be every time we invite someone to read the book of Mormon that we need to use Moroni 10 4-5 and so he told us that we were going to capacitate the missionaries today so today we had a capacitaitn with all of our zone and it went super good it was really funny cuz my companion told all of the missionaries that one day we woke up and that Elder Tams went outside and was saying a prayer kneeling next to his chair and that he went to the bathroom and that when he cam e out like 30 minutes later that i was still kneeling bye my chair and he was like man he is really spiritual haha and then he went over bye me and i was snoring haha that i was sleeping i woke up and told him that i was just receiving revelation haha!! sister mecham gave us a cute little card with a  lifesaver and she invited us to say a prayer and to put the life savor in our mouth and that we cant end the prayer until the lifesaver has melted haha my lifesaver took like 20 minutes but i had a really awesome experience last night i decided to put the promise to test again i read some of the book of Mormon and i said a prayer asking our father in heaven to bless me with a reassurance that the book of Mormon is true!! haha it was kind of funny cuz as i ended my prayer of 20 minutes i felt something different i was like wow but then i realized that it was just cuz my knees hurt from kneeling so much and my eyes hurt from opening them to the light haha but after that i waited a couple minutes and honestly i started to feel a burning in my chest i knew that the book of Mormon was true and i am so grateful for my father in heaven he listens to us and he will give us an answer to our prayers but we have to pray with real intent real intent is when we are ready to act on the answer that we receive form God whether we like it or not ! i know that this church is true i know that God loves us i know that the Book Of Mormon is the center of our religion i know that God the father and his Son Jesus Christ lives thanks to the Book of Mormon and i know that its never to late to renew our testimonies of the book of Mormon and of our Savoir Jesus Christ i invite all of my loved ones to read Moroni chap.10 ver. 4 and 5 and to do what it invites us !! 

love you fam you are why i am here you are my motivation and my love thanks !! have a wonderful week!!!󾓩Elder Tams 

Week 81 pics

 Baptism of Jordi, Samantha, and Aaron

Week 81

Well like every week its been a great one here in mexico this week we baptized jordi ,samantha and her little brother aaron and it was such a beautiful baptism all of there families could come and there not members! president and sister mecham could come and the spirit was very strong! every time i have a baptism i wish so bad that you guys could be here with me that you guys could really see the process of baptizing someone and be with me to feel the joy i feel i feel such a great joy when we baptize someone that i know have changed and that they know who Jesus Christ is and what he did for us! its a joy so big i cant explain it! besides that everything is going good i feel a really big responsibility for my zone like usually im just really worried about my ward and what i can do to be better and to help them but now its like well were doing good in our area we have baptized 4 people this change but the rest of the missionary's haven't baptized:( so its kind of hard i feel a big responsibility to God i know that he is aware of the things im doing for the rest of the missionaries! and honestly i just try to teach them everything that president has taught me i am who i am and i have had the change i have had in the mission because i have done the things that my leaders and President Mecham have taught me and its just hard sometimes when the missionary's don't do what Pres. has told us its like guys what the heck haha this is the pattern to have success in your areas you just have to do what President says! something that jordi said in his testimony at his baptism that really stuck with me is he said!i know that this church is true i have only listened to the missionary's for 2 weeks but i know i just know that this church is true i can't explain it but i know! and i feel the same way! i plead with all of my family that maybe doesn't feel the same way that jordi feels to reflexion your lives and find out why and then talk with the bishop there is always always something we can do to be better!! that's what i told the missionary's today we always practice in our district meetings and we do a practice of 10 minutes and in this 10 minutes we can stop them and say hey you could do this better or this and then we do another practice of 5 minutes but putting in practice the things we learned from the first practice and while they were practicing a sister was like wait sister you said this Pres. has taught us to do this and the sister was like......ughhh like i know everything haha you don't need to tell me. so after there meeting i told them straight up guys we are here to learn no body is perfect we do these practices to learn and perfection our teaching skills!  so something that i have learned alot is just to be humble we all need to progress we all want something better in our lives if its not in work or in school or sports whatever it is we need to learn to take advice from others and then put it in practice in our lives put a goal and change and because of that and the atonement of our wonderful savoir Jesus Christ one day we will receive glory and joy as we meet our maker! 

I love you guys with all of my heart you can be sure of that!!

Elder Tams 

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