I guess its going to be official this week. My companion, Presidente Rodriguez is going to get transferred to another area, and i´m going to stay in his place as branch president of Rama La Maquina. He´s been a really good companion me in showing me the area and helping me get to know how to be a branch president. There is definitely still lots of learning to do, but I know that with lots of prayer and fasting, the Lord will help me out.
My other companion, Elder Bonilla is going to be training a new missionary from the CCM. As of now, we don´t know who it is going to be, but we are excited to have a new missionary with us. I have always liked being around the new missionaries because they are full of energy and excitement to work.
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| zonas Retalhuleu, Las Palmas, San Felipe, Mazatenango Lincoln, y Mazatenango Las Flores |
I think I may have forgotten to mention a multi-zone conference that we had with Presidente Ruiz a couple of weeks ago. I always love hearing messages from our mission president. His messages are always so powerful. One message that he shared with us a little while back talked about how we should humble ourselves before our Heavenly Father, before we become obligated to be humble. As in many occasions in the scriptures, we witness lots of afflictions that require us to be humble. My companions and I have applied this in our lessons with the investigators. At times, we teach people that don´t want to change, and would rather keep living in their sins. Sometimes it takes an affliction for people to realize that they need to seek to follow the Lord´s will and not their own.
A few days ago, I was on divisions with our District Leader, Elder Preciado (from Mexico, we came to the mission together). We received a phone call from a member of the ward that there was an emergency. We immediately went to her house and we arrived, we saw from the expression of her face that something was wrong. As we entered the house, I felt a strong presense of fear. The sister began explaining to us that a familiar/friend was in danger. He had been receving messages from someone threatening death if he doesn´t give them a certain quantity of money. When I heard this, I couldn´t help but imagine what it would be like to live in that situation; in fear of being killed, knowing it could be anyone in the street that is sending you those messages. We decided to share the same message that Presidente Ruiz shared with us, about humbling ourselves before we are obligated to be humbled. The brother accepted our message and we decided to give him a blessing of comfort. Immediately after the blessing, a huge feeling a peace filled the home. The priesthood is such a blessing. I encourage every priesthood holder to exercise his priesthood multiple times a week.
Something really exciting that we are doing right now is preparing a family from Tahuexco to enter the temple in September. This is one of the best things that I will get to experience in the mission. They are a really good family with lots of desire to do what is right.
This week we are going to keep working with some progressing investigators that we have. One of them is Paola. She accepted to get baptized tomorrow. Keep her in your prayers! We also are working with a guy named Nery and his girlfriend Griselda. Nery lived in Utah for a little while and got to know the church just a bit when he was there. He is one of our most positive investigators. Griselda is also really great. She loves the hymns, even though she has trouble following along with them. We can tell that she really wants to learn them. I think they are both looking for a new start, and what better place to start than at church? We hope to have baptismal dates for them this week as well.
Sorry for the lack of pictures this week! I forgot to bring my camera with me. It seems like all I have is excuses, haha. But I will try to get better at sending pictures.
I also attached a picture from one of my last days in the office when we went to eat dinner with Presidente Ruiz in a restaurant and saw two of the exact same cars as we have in the mission. I don´t think i´ve mentioned the names of the cars in the mission but the blue one is named Doris (or Dory) and the Gold one is Jony. It was just something that was kind of funny for us that night.
Hope you all have a great week!
Adios.
Elder Taylor
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