Dear Elder John: Tiernas Misericordias

Hola Everyone!

This week has been pretty good here in San Pedro. I finally am getting used to cold weather again. As always, the majority of people don't keep the appointments that we make with them, so that's kind of annoying, but we are slowly seeing some progress in our area. Up to this point we haven't had one investigator in sacrament meeting, but we still have faith that one of these weeks, someone will be prepared to go.

Yesterday we had a pretty spiritual experience in a lesson with the husband of a member. The investigator's name is Fredi and he has been visited by the missionaries for the past 2 years. He was first visited by a missionary that went home when I came to the mission. Fredi has received all of the lessons on multiple occasions and has been to church countless times. I had been looking at his name in our Area Book for a while now, and yesterday I felt that we should stop by. We asked the bishop to accompany us. The bishop is the father of the wife of Fredi. When we got their, we taught The Restoration and he understood everything. My companion, Elder Hernandez, asked him after why he hadn't chosen to be baptized. Fredi's answer was that he didn't feel good in church; not for anything that the members had done, he just didn't like going. After that, I decided to share some scriptures with him from the Book of Mormon. Then I asked the first three questions from the baptismal interview. To our surprise, he answered to us that he knows that Joseph Smith was a prophet, that the church is true, and that the Book of Mormon is scripture. I told him after that he has a testimony of the gospel, and that the only thing he needed to do is act. I challenged him to be baptized on November 25th, and we were all super surprised when we heard him say, 'I'll prepare'. This has definitely been our biggest miracle of the week. We are going to have to take care of him a LOT! I'll keep y'all posted on how things go.

Today, as a zone, we went on a mini-hike on a mountain close-by in San Antonio. We thought we were going to get a good view of San Marcos and San Pedro, but there were too many trees and the mountain wasn't tall enough.

. It was still fun though, because we made our own trail on the way back down. After the hike, we went to a park on the side of the mountain and played capture the flag. We had a pretty great time. Our district went to a cool little restaurant after.

Here are some pictures:

Near a place called San Jose Caben

A cool painting of Antigua Guatemala

My District (minus two Elders) Left to Right: My trainer Elder Tumbaco (Ecuador), Elder Contreras (Honduras), Me, My companion Elder Hernandez (Mexico), Hermana Gonzalez (Mexico), and Hermana Cabrera (Ecuador).