Almost Christmas!

Hola!

This week was a decent week. We started the week off with divisions! I stayed in the area and Elder Leocadio from Guerrero Mexico came to work with me for a day. He has two weeks in the field and he has an amazing conversion story. I just wanted to take a moment to talk about it. He got baptized at the age of 12 but his parents prohibited him from going to church.  They were fairly abusive so he left home at the age of 15. He went looking for a job and found work in a cake store and he worked there making about 50 pesos a day for a couple of years, living in the warehouse. Everyday he was up at 4 to work until 7 then he went to school, he got back at 3 and kept working until 10, when he started his homework. However, he had to work on Sundays, so one day he decided to take an enormous leap of faith and he quit so he could go to church. He said that that decision flipped his life around because in the church the members helped him out and with their help he started a business and from that business came another! From those two businesses he made a ton of money, enough to pay for the mission and he pays for his siblings schooling.   He left his brother in charge of his businesses while he's here for these two years. I thought that it was just the coolest thing to see this Elder's faith and courage in God.

With Elder Leocadio

We found Christmas lights in the apartment!

This week we also were able to find a cool family where two kids are not members, one is 12 and the other is 9 years old. They stopped going to church when the grandma died but we talked to them about God's plan and they're started to come back to church, the two kids have baptismal dates for January 5th.

Christmas time!!

The other people we are teaching are coming along really well! We have two 16 year old boys that have baptismal dates for the 29th of December. Ricardo is still searching for an answer from God and the other kid, David, just needs his parents permission so keep them in your prayers! As for Tranquilino he had to go back to his ranch to fix some legal things or something like that so we shall see when he gets back home! Anyways, hope you all have a great week! Enjoy the cold!
Elder Gurney