Reuniones, muchas reuniones 1-31-2022

 Hola mis queridos hermanos.


Yes, this week has been super busy. Lots of meetings, and lots of finding and teaching in between those meetings. Like I mentioned in the other letter that I wrote late, last Monday we had a huge meeting during our P-day with President Montejo to record a practice district council for all the mission to watch. President told us he wants our stake to be a model stake for the whole mission. He has big expectations for us. And with the stake, the goal in the future is to have 1 baptism every week in every ward. It's a very high goal, but it will come to pass.

So Tuesday, the stake Presidency wanted us to come to their weekly meeting. We discussed a lot about this new way we're sharing the Book of Mormon with everyone, and the Stake President said he wants every family to have 2 copies of the Book of Mormón to share with others. They have great faith too. After, we had our missionary coordination for Ometoxtla, and we talked about how we can do that with the Book of Mormon in the Ometoxtla ward. 

Wednesday morning, we felt like we should take an emergency trip to the mission offices to steal the last 2 boxes of copies of the Book of Mormon in the mission, because we had hardly any. And then that night, the leadership of 3 wards wanted us to come and talk about the Book of Mormon and this new model of sharing it, and we ended up giving both of those boxes away to them that we just got. So we were out again, and we still needed like 4 boxes for Sunday for each family to have 2. 

Thursday, we went out finding with one of the youth from the ward preparing to go on a mission it was a great experience. We found a family that has a kid that's not been baptized, so we'll be able to help them with that. And we had a meeting with both of our ward mission leaders to go over this finding method of the Book of Mormon so they could help us present it Sunday to everyone. 

Friday we went finding a lot, and had a lot of lessons cancel on us, but we still had some good lessons that day. Also, the mission received 100 more boxes of the Book of Mormon, so we would have enough for Sunday. 💪 It was really an answer to prayers. Also, we had a mission devotional on Friday, and President just blew away the mission with the spirit. He tied in the new plan of the Mexico area for 2022 into the Book of Mormon work were doing and promised some pretty powerful blessings.

Saturday was an interesting day. We had it all planned out with so many lessons, but things didn't work quite that way. First of all, a member was able to pick up the boxes of the copies of the Book of Mormon for us which was great. But we studied as companions that morning about charity, patience, and humility. And that day, those things were tested. Almost all of our lessons canceled, and almost nobody was interested, and some people were hard to be patient with. And after it all, we wanted to go buy tacos at the end of the day. And there was this guy there that started talking to us, and he talked to us for almost an hour. He talked to us like he was super smart and we were dumb, and he talked about how "rich and lazy" we are in the US, and all sorts of stuff. I was really tired of it, but I did all i could to be kind and courteous, and we departed on a good note. But when he left and we got tacos, they were so worth it. There's blessings from patience. 😋

And so on Sunday, we had our two meetings for Sunday service. And it was 5th Sunday, and the wards gave us some time to share about the power of the Book of Mormon and we gave each family 2 books to share with someone else. And then we had a whole stake missionary meeting, and almost our whole zone came and President and Sister Montejo. It was really powerful, Elder Arias and I and the sisters and President and Sister had the opportunity to answer questions, and I loved it. I got to think of the blessings of serving a mission a lot, and I just loved it.

We had other good and great experiences this week, but this is all I'll share today. These areas are really hard, but there's blessings from the hard. Read the Book of Mormon, find its power in your life. It will make you a better, happier person. I promise.

I love you all, have a good week!

Love Elder Williams 

Fotos:
1. Popocatepetl
2. Me and good ol Popo
3. I was going to share this story, but maybe another time (they thought the dog had died in the fence but they were able to revive it back to life)
4. Mission Devo
5. After the stake mission meeting.
 
 





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