Week 38 - Nashville Providence B

Hola mi familia!

This week was just awesome! There were a ton of really cool spiritual experiences and a lot of progress was made with our investigators.

Monday night we went and met with the riveras and they made us dinner.

It was baleadas and posole. Apparently with the posole(corn and sketchy meat soup) Fabian told elder lachance to take caution. I didn't hear that. But then Tuesday elder lachance woke up with food poisoning, so that was a day I just cleaned and studied. But he's better now!

The rest of the week we continued working hard with the Rivera family.

Wednesday during our lesson with them about the plan of salvation, we invited Carmen and Miguel to be baptized on the 3rd of June. We put it a little farther out because Carmen and Fabian have to get married first, and we also wanted to work with Fabian and the bishop so that he can be worthy to baptize them. After the invitation, we brought up the whole marriage thing and told them to talk about it. Yesterday they came to church and Fabian brought his cousin who also was baptized at 8 but was inactive as well. His cousins non member wife came also. It was a super cool gospel principles class They all introduced themselves and Carmen introduced herself like this "I'm not a member, but that's why I'm meeting with the missionaries" we met with them last night to finish the plan of salvation, and Carmen's other daughter who didn't want to listen before came and sat in on the lesson. She's 11 and was making super good questions for us. So hopefully tonight we can invite her to be baptized on the same day as everyone else. They also bought us both a tie, it was super nice of them! We are going to wear them next week when they come to church again. Also Carmen was able to finally say a prayer with all of us listening and it was a super good prayer! She thanked Heavenly Father for putting us in her path and asked that he would bless us so we could keep coming over and helping her.

I think that covers the most important parts of this week. One thing I started in my studies is I'm reading through the Book of Mormon as if I'm an investigator and marking scriptures and making questions that investigators might ask about or if they are scriptures that would really help them. It's been a fun, cool week of studies.

Love you all!

🇺🇸Elder Williams🇲🇽

Sometime studies just drain you

Cool mug in our Apartment

This is the Tie the Revera Family got Me

Week 37 - Nashville Providence B - New Apartment and Met Elder Neil L. Anderson

Hola mi familia!

This week has been so awesome! There were so many spiritual things packed into this week that it just flew by. I am so grateful I have the opportunity to serve with elder lachance for his last transfer.

We are working hard, but having a blast with it at the same time.

So first off we moved, so I live at

109 players court Nashville, TN

The biggest miracle this week was really starting to work with the Rivera family. That's Fabian and his girlfriend/wife Carmen and their son Miguel. We were able to meet with them three times this week, and they are reading in the Book of Mormon. They came to our ex- missionary activity, which was supposed to be just an activity to get ex-missionaries excited to do missionary work again. and it turned out to be awesome, because the members all just testified to them the whole time. They weren't able to make it to church this week, but we are going to work super hard this week to get them there next week. We are also planning on setting a baptismal date with them for the 3rd of June. We want to set it a little farther out so that Fabian, the dad, can be worthy to baptize them. Also they need to get married first. We are going to talk to them about all this tonight. We have such high hopes for them, and I already love them so much.

Then Saturday we all piled into the mission van to travel up to Paducah, Kentucky(2 hours and 20 minutes) we were going up there because Elder Neil L. Anderson was visiting for their stake conference! And he invited half of the mission to come meet with him.

We all got to shake his hand and you could see the pure love he has in his eyes. The thing that really stood out to me was how comfortable it was to be around him. And he even told us that he never really talks so casually, but he could feel how focused we were on the work so he felt comfortable talking like that. I thought that was a super cool experience. I'm really grateful that I had the opportunity to go.

We also had another baptism on Saturday. The zone leaders were the ones that taught her. So we had two confirmations at church yesterday.

I love you all!

🇺🇸Elder Williams🇲🇽

Week 36 - Nashville Providence B - TRANSFERS (Still in same area)

Hola mi familia!

So we got transfer calls Friday morning! I'm staying here in Nashville! And my companion is elder Lachance. He's the super tall guy from last transfer. He served in providence a, got transferred to columbia, and now is coming with me in providence b. It's his last transfer so that's going to be fun. I'm actually super excited because we got along really well when he was here. 

This week was awesome! We worked really hard this week and it payed off. We worked a bunch with angel and he's starting to really progress. We set a baptismal date with him for June 2nd! Which turns out to be his birthday! We set it pretty far away because he definitely needs his time, but now that he has this goal in mind he's taking it a lot more seriously. The only problem is being able to meet with them frequently enough. 

We also met with Fabian and his family. He's the drunk member we found that I talked about last week. But his desires to change and come back were real. He expressed it in the closing prayer of the lesson. And his wife and kid were really into the lesson too. We were supposed to meet with them again last night but we got stuck at the church cleaning up after the sisters baptism. But they are definitely one of our main focuses at the moment. 

We also found another really cool Honduran family on Saturday. We were looking for a girl we came in contact with a while back, and we knocked her door and she wasn't home. But her family still invited us in and we taught them the first lesson. It's really crazy how easily we come in contact with prepared families. The lord has his hand in his work. I know that for a fact. 

Anyways that's pretty much it for this week. I'm loving it out here and time just seems to be flying by! Mother's Day is in 3 sundays. It feels like just yesterday that it was Christmas

🇺🇸Elder Williams🇲🇽

PS.  He is still in the same apartment for now.  His companion headed for Bowling Green

Hang 10

Weird tradition, when a missionary goes home you do a "funeral" at the last district meeting

This is one of my buddy elder quiring in it who is back in cedar hille.  We've been in choir together since 9th grade

View from our back porch