A General Authority came to our mision for my Birthday!! 11-29-2021

Hello everyone!

It's been a long and tiring week to be honest. Elder Arias and I slept in today which was nice. (We're allowed to on P-day.) We had two days of conferences with Elder Rafael Pino from the General Authority Seventy, we did service, we had a baptism, and we'll have another baptism in January!

On Wednesday we had a mission conference with Elder Pino, and it was really good. It helped me to think of why I do each little thing each day, is it helping others here in Mexico? I realized I have been focusing a decent amount on myself to adjust to Mexico and learn Spanish and all that, but I need to look outside myself more in the smaller things. That night we taught a lesson to one of our friends and invited him to be baptized in January so that's cool. And we filled out the baptism forms for our friend that we had a baptism for this Saturday. 

On Thursday it was my birthday (the big 20!), thank you to all of you who sent me wishes! I appreciate and love all of you! We had a 4 and a half hour long Mission Leadership Council with Elder Pino which inspired me a lot. My companion said he didn't like it, but I thought it was pretty good. But we got a burger after which was pretty cool. I got to talk to some of my Dad's side of the family at Thanksgiving which was a huge blessing. And then our District leader and a member surprised me with a cake, which apparently they don't even hardly eat down here, they just destroy it with your face. And they did it to me, and my district leader because he's going home, and Elder Arias did it too. So basically, we didn't get to eat any of the cake. But don't worry, I bought another one. 

Friday and Saturday we had some good lessons, but the main thing we did Saturday was some community service of weeding out a soccer and basketball field, and it was a lot of work. But we did get to talk to some of the people serving that weren't members of the church, and got some contact information for them! It was a great opportunity to talk to others and serve the community. Then we went and taught a lesson, and had to rush to prepare for a baptism we had. It was a 9 year old boy named Ezra, and everything went pretty well. I also gave a talk which was last minute so I didn't have anything prepared. But God is merciful, and once again the gift of tongues is real! I was able to give a short talk with no preparation without faltering at the words. God is good.

We have transfers tomorrow, and I will be staying in the same area with my companion. Our zone isn't changing too much which is good.  I've also learned a lot this week how to let the little things go that aren't important to bring up to cause arguments or anything like that. I'm learning a lot each day. Thank you for all of your continued support, love you all!

Love 
Elder Williams

Photos:
1. Baptism
2. My new glorious prize
3. Face smash in cake
4. Us with Rocky
5. Service
6. Burger
7. Sea food
8. Last district picture
9. Missin Electric guitar
10. Mission Leadership council
 
 












 

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