Great week great week!!! Super
awesome time for my growth language wise and mission wise, and had some
great experiences. This week absolutely flew by, time is getting faster
and faster here I can´t believe it.
This week
we had our Zone Conference, where the 4 northern zones in the mission
(Poza Rica, Palmas, Tuxpan, and Papantla) came to Poza Rica to be
spiritually uplifted. We got to hear some talks from the Assistants to
the President, from Hermana and Presidente Equihuas, went through some
classes lead by some Zone Leaders, and got to engulf ourselves in the
spirit of the mission. At the end of the conference we sang our mission
song, which is the hypest thing I have ever been a part of. I can´t
really explain it, but it gave me so much energy and reminded me of the
brotherhood and friendship we have as missionaries here. Great
experience.
Earlier this week Elder Almonte
and I got sick, not sure what it was, I think it was some sort of day
sickness or whatever, but we both weren´t feeling great and didn´t have
virtually any energy. However, we had this family we needed to visit
that is seriously up the side of a cliff (I have a picture of the road
we went up, don´t have it right now but next week I will include it).
When we were standing at the bottom I thought up asking to turn back, we
were sick, it was late, and I just didn´t think I had the energy to go.
Anyways we went up, seriously almost passed out, but got to their house
and sat down with them. This family is partially active, but the men in
the household aren´t members and we have been talking a little bit and
teaching them. After taking some time to chat and ask them how they were
doing, we were able to share a little bit about the priesthood and
about fatherhood. They have a TV, and we were able to connect a memory
chip to watch the video titled, ¨Earthly Father, Heavenly Father¨, and
if you haven´t seen it I definitely recommend
watching it. It´s super powerful and the last line says, ¨of all the
titles of respect and honor and admiration that are given to Deity,
He has asked us to address Him as Father¨.
Anyways,
they were all super receptive to our message and we were able to have a
good conversation with all of them, the parents and children, about
their roles and how they can strengthen their faith. I learned a couple
things from this experience. 1. I learned that the Lord will help makes
us strong as we serve him. The only way we were able to teach and spend
time with this family was because of his strength. He gave us the energy
to get there and gave us the resources to teach. And 2. that the Lord
will bless us after we have taken the effort. Getting up the hill and
having the will power to get there was not easy, but once we got there
the Lord blessed us with the spirit and the opportunity to teach. This
lesson was the first time we had the whole family in the house to teach.
That isn´t a coincidence, and I know that the Lord gathered them
together for us to teach as He knew we were going to put in the effort
to reach them.
I am grateful for
the father figures in my life and for everyone else that have been
examples to me. I love this work and am grateful to serve. We have got a
lot to do out here and are having fun doing it. And of course learning
Español!
Love you all! No pictures this week! Super depressing but Ill be back next week with more.
Hasta luego!
Elder Anderson
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