Exito!!!

So this was an interesting week. It was Saint Week with each day a different way to keep the commandments of the Lord that no one keeps the rest of the year because there is a week assigned for such a thing. You know.... Because Christ was only an example for our lives one week of each year....... Como sea (anyway)......

Our success was actually great in the first of the week. We had 5 fechas bautismales in the first 3 days. We had some great lessons and we found Irene (Ee-reh-neh). She has family in Waco Texas. She was there with them for some time and she wanted to go to church. She tried "Todos de las iglesias en America y nada tuvo lo que quise. Pero, una amiga de mi hija nos invito a su iglesia. Nos fuimos y eso iglesia fue perfecto!! Pero, quando regresi a Mexico, yo no pude encontrar la iglesia." (My Spanish is still far from perfect so don´t be surprised if there are errors) Some other Elders found her in the street one day and referenced her for us. When she saw us she all but screamed with joy!! IT WAS GREAT!!! Ella me caye buen. She loves to talk and has something to say on every principle. It makes our lessons long but I love them. Elder Montero on the other hand gets somewhat frustrated with her until she starts bashing on other churches. She is fantastic. She is 62 and looks 45. All Puebla women look younger than they are and all the chikas look older than they are. But anyway, that´s Irene. There is more to know about her but I am short on time. Her fecha is the 8th of May. She loves church, the book of Mormon and she has reasons why the church is true but not a firm testimony yet. She has to pray for that. I think she will.

Our other fechas need to be changed. We are still looking into having Liliana´s on saturday but Erika and her daughters didn´t show up for church so they need a new day. Erika´s dad is VERY catholic and is her boss so he is changing her schedule every time we have a cita. But that´s ok. We just stop by randomly when she doesn´t work and teach anyway. Mwahahaha!!!!

Brenda didn´t show up for church either. Her parents are also very catholic and  Elder Montero says that as long as she lives with them, she won´t be baptized. I´m not sure what will happen there. I will just pray and work.

We have a total of 8 people that we are confident can be baptized in the month of May. It´s all up to them. I don´t have time to go through them all but I will eventually as their progress peaks to something noteworthy.

The subject to this blog is Exito. Exito means Success. Sunday, we were expecting quite a few investigators. We had 4.  I am very satisfied with that number. In our last ward, we sat next to a family that we had helped reactivate.  In front of us sat another family that we had a hand in. We had 3 investigators in that hour of sacrament. The talks were about missionary work, the atonement and a stake message about diesmo.  It was very good. Afterward we talked to the non-member "esposo" of the menos activo that sat in front of us and he went off on his beliefs.  I tell ya, Satan has some crazy ideas in the minds of man.  I won´t go into them because it just isn´t worth your time, but they are far and wide with twist deep doctrine and none of the teachings of Christ as their base.  

We planched him. That is to say, we ironed him like our white shirts. But we were gentle and he accepted us to come by and talk more.  MAS EXITO!!!!  We really don´t think that he will get baptized because he is just strange with his beliefs, but our goal is for him to accept the gospel enough to allow his daughter of 8 years to be baptized.  She wants it.  He just isn´t sure.  So we will work with diligence,  pray in faith and preach with the power of the Almighty guiding our words.  Good heavens I love this work. La Obra de Jesucristo.

Being the 5th person to hold this title in my family,

I am Elder Heath (the 5th). Les Amo!!!