Elder Charles Robert Williams: Week 26

This week was actually pretty cool. First off the ward had 5 convert baptisms on Saturday and it was so cool. They were the first convert baptisms I have seen. And I taught two of them once on exchanges, so it totally counts as one of mine, right? Haha jk. But while they were all getting changed after they got dunked, Elder Bradshaw and I taught everyone else there the restoration. It's actually a really great time to do that. The spirit is already so strong from the baptism, then all we had to do was explain to everyone why that was and the spirit just did the rest. Most of the people there were members, but there were a few investigators there, so hopefully that touched their hearts in some way. Then two of the new converts took us all out to IHOP. There were 16 of us in total. Over half of the Spanish elders in the mission were there. It was way fun. After IHOP we had like 5 lessons to teach in the last 3 hours of the day. So we were running like crazy back and forth to get through all of them. And everyone said they would be coming to church and they sounded really excited about it. Then, of course, none of them showed up yesterday, so that was disappointing. But I can bet money it was some opposition put in their path so they couldn't come. We are meeting with all of them soon, so we will find out what held them back and help them to make it next Sunday.

Tuesday we taught Mark Garcia, who is really prepared to accept this gospel. He's had a ton of different addictions in his life that he has been able to overcome, but now he says he can actually feel his soul and that he's missing something. So we taught about the Holy Ghost and how he can fill that gap now with joy and peace. So keep him in your prayers for us, I really believe he's ready to make this amazing change in his life. And possibly his wife and kids.

Wednesday was an amazing finding day, it so awesome. We were able to find 6 new investigators and 4+ potentials. So that was a really awesome day. One guy even was driving by us in his work van and stopped us and asked for a pamphlet and the address to our church. That was way weird but still cool.

We also went to this super cool, kinda ghetto, panadería(bakery) to give some service. We helped wash dishes, talked with them all in Spanish the whole time, and got free fresh out of the oven pastries. Win/win/win.

Other than that it was just the normal tracting the rest of the time. I've really been working on different door approaches and just trying to bear my testimony to people rather than saying what sounds right. And it's seemed like it's been working better. I'm still just trying to better myself everyday, and just trying to really trust in the lord with everything I do.

Love you all and know I'm praying for you!

🇺🇸Elder Williams🇲🇽