I'll Be Gone in Obregon

Hey All!   The work in Barrio Esperanza continues to progress and the pay off is fianlly comign for all of the work the Lord is having us do. As i mention last week, we've been tryign to go the extra mile and have daily contact with ur investigadors, and this week we started seeign a lot of fruits of that as a lot of epeopl have begun to progess and take the first few baby steps on the path that leads back to the Lord.  I want to tell you all about one family. They are a family with nine children. We are currently teaching three of the siblings. Two of their older siblings are members who were baptized about two or three years ago, but they are living in the United States right now because they were born in the US and are therefore US citizens and it's easier to send the kids to the United States for high school than to take out a Mexican Citizenship. Although these siblings have moved, they have remained active in the church and the older brother is preparing to serve...

Thsi past month it has been slightly more complicated to bring investigadors to church, mostly because we had both general conference and stake conference, which means bringing all the investigadors on a 30 minute bus ride to Obregon and then from there, walking another 10 or so blocks, or having someone in the ward with a car pick them up and then making the drive to the stake center.. But, the Lord has been providing miracles through out all this month. One of the goals of our zone this months is to provide more loving seguimiento. This means checking how everyone is doing every single day and providing support and encouragement in meaningful ways. One of the ways we have been trying to accomplish this task among other things is to send out group messages every single night to all of the investigadors and less active people that we are in contact with and remind them to read their scriptires and say their prayers in the night. And as we have been doing this, we decided to include...

I'm honestly not sure what to even write in this email.... Hi everyone! Things in Sonora are going well - the work moves forward, we keep learning, and the people progress, little by little. We've had a lot of progress with a lot of investigadors this week, and its been interesting for this past week to be more or less the senior companion as Hermana Cruz gets to know the investigadors and the area. I've been able to do a lot more than I thought I was able to, but it's also been very humbling as I've realized how far I have come and how far I still need to go to be the missionary I want to be and the person I want to be. But that's okay. 2 Corinthians 6:12 is our scripture of the month in April and roughly translated into Englihs for those who don't want to open their scriptures, it says "you are only limited by your heart." which is very much true and has brought a little more meaning to just how much we can accomplish and change. ...

Hey y'all!  So, once again cambios have come and another another six weeks has gone. How crazy to think of how fast the time is flying by, and I'm sure it's not planning on slowing down any second.  Well, after six months being the ray of sunshine that she is here in Esperanza, Hermana Rubio was finally tranferred. The good news is that she's actually serving in my zone still so I get to see her every week at district meeting. My new companion is Hermana Cruz from Veracruz. She's super sweet, likes sports and eating, and is a good missionary, so I think we're going to get along splendidly.  This week was awesome. It was Semana Santa, which is the week before Easter and so pretty much everyone leaves to go on vacation because it's basically a country wide spring break. Unfortunately, this means that no is in their houses and a bunch of our investigators left town, but it was super awesome becaseu whenver there are difficulties, there are miracles....

What happened this week is a good question but a better one is what didn't happen this week? So many things always happen during a missionary's week, but this week in particular felt unusually jam packed with things.  With all the climate changes, because Sonors doesn't pick a climate durign this time of year it just goes from burning hot to really cold in 20 minutes, both Hermana Rubio and I got sick this week and it is never fun to be sick as a missionary. The good thing was, that while we were out of the house working and on the Lord's errand, we were more or less fine; however, the second we got back to the house and every single morning, we felt awful again. Small blessings that go a very long way.  Another highlight of this week was pssibly one fo the most crazy things that has happened on my mission so far. We were teaching a less active sister who had been less active for almsot thirty years and we were having a really awesome lesson about the pur...