Elder Williams Mission

 ¡Hola a todos, FELIZ NAVIDAD Y NUEVO AÑO! This week has been super crazy too, my goodness. We sang so many Christmas songs, and I carried my guitar around a ton. We got chased by lots of dogs, had a mission Christmas party, and we ate so much food. We also made a lot of cards for members and little candy bags so that was cool. To start off Tuesday we had a mission devotional that caught everyone off guard. Our mission president said at the end that if we aren't willing to work or be obedient to mission rules, we should just go home. That caught us off guard, but it resonated in our souls, it made me want to be a better missionary. And then we taught some lessons that day, then we went with a decent sized group from our second ward to sing Christmas Carols to widows and single women, it was really powerful to feel the spirit of music. On Wednesday we spent the whole day as a mission with lots of games, food, devotionals, and a musical presentation from each zone. Ours...

 Hello everyone! I swear each week keeps getting wilder and wilder. This has been a pretty wild week. I don't even know where to start.  We have had little time to find and teach people which has been kinda sad, but we have been keeping busy. To start off, we did make it home safely from District council this last P-day, thankfully. Tuesday we had interviews with President Montejo at the stake center which was really good. He gave me some good advice, but most importantly I could feel the love he had for me. That was powerful to me, and it goes to show when we love people, they can feel it and are more likely to trust us and follow our council. That's why I've been trying so hard to have charity throughout my mission for others, and the power of Charity is real. (Charity is described as the pure love of Christ).  That same day on Tuesday we practiced singing some more for the ward Christmas party that we had on Friday, and then we had one lesson. In that less...

 Hello everyone! It's been a busy week full of lots of meetings and music practice. We had a mission Leadership council, mission devotional, a ward missionary activity, and lots more. The music stuff basically, is one of the wards we work with wanted to do some choir/ caroling activity for the youth, and they found out I could play the guitar, so they wanted me to play the guitar for it. 😬 So I learned like 6 Christmas songs on guitar and we went for it. The only problem is that like all the youth either don't want to sing, or have some fear. So this will be interesting. But it's good for me, I've been playing the guitar which I love, and almost trying to direct, I'm learning a lot. Also, our zone has to do a musical presentation for a mission Christmas conference. So I will also be playing the guitar and we'll be doing a dance as well, wish us luck. This will be our first day practicing as a zone.  Last Monday when we were trying to get back from...

 Hey everyone! This week has been a roller coaster, that's for sure. We had transfers, I'm still with my companion from Chihuahua, Elder Arias. We have a new district leader now and we have more Americans than Mexicans in our zone now. So our ability to speak Spanish as a zone has diminished a bit. 😂 We have a new Elder here that is from Arizona too! Let's go! We've seen some cool miracles in finding people through service. We don't see too much success in just talking with people in the street or the bus, but when we do something to serve them, even just something small, they are a lot more willing to learn about Jesus Christ from us. It's cool to see that.  We also had a big service project this Saturday where we cleared the side of the main road of all the bushes and dirt and weeds, and then repainted the concrete sides. And there was this nasty dead dog, not so cool. But it's always good to just work hard and not have to worry about anythi...