Week 42 in Mexico, Week 12 in Zihuatanejo

Today was the day of transfers!  My companion and I didn´t have any so we are both going to stay here.  During this week we have been working with David some, but now he doesn´t really want to progress.  We think one of his brothers or his mom had some part in trying to convince him not to get baptized.  He still likes seeing us, and we go there a lot to visit his cousin, who is a member.  Diana is doing really good, she is progressing a lot, and we finished teaching all of lesson 1 and she understood  everything and is way excited to get her answer.  She wasn´t able to come to church this week because she had to go see her son, because he just got married.  But this week we are going to work with her some more.  Also we have been teaching a friend of our ward mission leader, and she accepted a baptismal date this week!  The only problem is that she doesn´t live  in our area.  She only works here, and she is here all day.  The other missionaries don´t have a chance to teach her.  Her name is Cresencia, she  is doing pretty good as far as the teaching goes.  She just needs to go to church, but that is another part of the problem with her work .  She might be able to get a free hour to go to church.  She hasn´t been able to go to church since she began the discussions.  Well that's about all for this week!
Elder Carey

 

Week 41 in Mexico, Week 11 in Zihuatanejo

Hi everyone, this week was pretty good out here.  We were able to see the conference and it was really good.  Also, this upcoming week, we are going to be able to see Meet the Mormons in Spanish here!   They are going to show it in the church, because there isn´t a movie theater that played it here.  I´m pretty excited because I still haven´t seen it.  Besides that, this week, we are still working with David for his baptism.  His baptismal date is for this week, but we ran in to a little bit of a problem.  He is a member of a christian church, and this week, he wasn´t able to come to conference because of a youth activity that they had in his church.  So today, in the morning we talked with him, and he said he isn´t ready for his baptism.  So we´re going to have to talk to him to help him get ready.   We don´t think that he has been reading that much of the  Book of Mormon, so we´re going to try and get things settled so he can be baptized this week.  Our other investigators are doing good.  Diana wasn´t able to come to the conference because she is sick, but she still really wants to come to church and stuff.  Well not much else has happened different , this week is the last week of  the transfer so we will see what happens next week.  Okay, I´ve got to go!
Elder Carey

Week 40 in Mexico, Week 10 in Zihuatanejo

Hi everyone! Here in Zihua, people are starting to get here for the holy week as its called here.  This week was pretty good.  I got to go in divisions with another from the united states and I realized that my English needs a lot of work ha ha.  I can´t believe how fast the time is going, I now am in my last 13 months, but I still feel really green ha ha.   Right now I´m doing pretty good.  I´m not sick, maybe tired sometimes , but not sick.  We are going to be able to see General conference here in the chapel.    Also , this week we are going to have a zone conference, and we are going to go in divisions again, but this time I´ll be with the Elder from Chile.  It should be pretty interesting, Diana, the new investigator is doing good, she wasn´t able to go to church this week, we still aren´t sure why but we will find out soon.  She  already sort of has an answer, but we are just working with her so she keeps progressing.  David is doing good.  He was able to come to church, but he still drinks coffee, so     we've just got to make sure he doesn´t drink any coffee during this week so he can get baptized next week.  Thats about it for this week, and I also have a picture to send of my companion, Daniel, David and I.  Daniel is David´s cousin, and David is the one next to my companion in the picture.  

Elder Carey

Week 39 in Mexico, Week 9 in Zihuatanejo

Hi Everyone!  I hope that you all had a good week.  This week was pretty good, my companion and I are doing pretty good.  This week we were able to go and we found some new people to teach.  One of them, is very ready to hear the gospel.  She has always had the question of which church is the real church.  she isn´t a member of any church, but she liked the first lesson that we had.  At the end of the lesson we all prayed kneeling and she is looking to receive her answer before the next lesson that is Tuesday.  It should be pretty good and we are very excited.  Also, David, another investigator is progressing very well, he came to church again and he liked it a lot.  It was good because we had ward  conference and we finally have a new bishop.  There hasn´t been a bishop here since I got here, so that should be  pretty good.  Also, one of my converts this week had the opportunity to baptize his brother.  I wasn´t there, but I´m sure it was a great experience.  Okay, I´ve got to go,   but I hope everyone has a great week!

Elder Carey

Week 38 in Mexico, Week 8 in Zihuatanejo

Hello everyone!  I hope everything is going good.  So far we have had a good week out here in the sun.  My companion and I are trying to find more people by talking in the street.  We can´t  go knock doors so when we find people, it has to be a reference or someone that we talked to in the street.  So we are working on that.  The investigators are doing good.  David, an investigator who is the cousin of a member in our area came to church yesterday and he liked it a lot.  He is progressing, we started to teach the Plan of Salvation with him this past week.  Dalia and Ricardo, other investigators, didn´t make it to church this week, but that might have been because it rained way hard yesterday, but everything is going good.  I am attaching a picture of the pizza we got for my birthday.  It was really good.  I can't believe I am now 20 years old.  Thanks for all the birthday wishes.  Have a great week.
Elder Carey

Week 37 in Mexico, Week 7 in Zihuatanejo

Hello everyone!  It was a good week.  We had an investigator come to church with us.  It was his first time.  He really liked it.  His cousin always goes out teaching with us.  We finally got to talk to him.  We taught him a couple of lessons, and he has accepted a baptismal date.  We had a cool experience the other day.  My companion really wanted Chinese food. We went and bought a little bit.  The next day we were walking by the Chinese restaurant, and the lady saw us and waved at us and said hi.  We went and tried to talk to her.  She doesn't really know that much Spanish.  I tried talking to her in English.  She can't speak English.  I think she speaks Chinese.  We tried giving her a card.  It was interesting.  I can officially say I have contacted Hindu, Chinese, Americans and Mexicans here on my mission.  We also did a lot of climbing and sweating.  There are a lot of hills in my area.  It is also hot and humid.  Everything is going good.  Have a great week!
Elder Carey

Week 36 in Mexico, Week 6 in Zihuatanejo

Hi everyone!  I hope everyone has had a good week, so far everything has been pretty good here.  Today is the day of transfers, and my companion left and I´m going to be here still.  Everything else is good.  Karla told us that she doesn´t want to listen now, but we think that its because of problems with her family, and we talked with her, and she only told us that she can´t right now, but maybe later.  All the other investigators are doing good.  We found a family last week that seems very interested and we have an appointment with them today in the night.  We do have some people that are progressing quite well and if everything goes good, they should be baptized the 21 of March.  Well My time is just about up, so I hope that everyone has a great week!

Elder Carey