Working Hard!

This week was an awesome week as a missionary. My comp and I have been working hard to constantly find new investigators and we have actually had a lot of success working with the lists of less actives. However, the best part of this week was that we set 6 baptismal goals with investigators, and all of them came to church on sunday and stayed the three hours! And were participating!

The one little catch about the church here in Mexico is that every time you go, someone says some weird doctrine or apostate comment in their talks that have nothing to do with the topic. This week one of the speakers went off about not eating meat, which made all of the investigators look at us with worried looks. So this week we will have to repair the damage from church.

 The class of Gospel principles in also pretty interesting because the teacher is a convert of about 5 months and is an awesome convert.... but because the topics in the class right now are about the spirit world, the millennium and deep doctrine topics like that, the class gets way out of hand. There is a lot of false doctrine and strange comments that happen. But the good part about that class is that we can step in and control the discussion a little bit to help the investigators. But in the end, yesterday was a successful day at church. My comp and I don't have changes so we will be working together another cycle and we hope to have quite a few baptisms. Thanks for everything Mom and tell the family I say hi. 

Elder Shumway

Grandpa Shumway & Abuela

I had a surprise visit from Grandpa Shumway and Abuela. After hearing the news about Grandma Clark, they were worried about me.

Isaiah 52:7

7 How beautiful upon the mountains
Are the feet of him who brings good news,
Who proclaims peace,
Who brings glad tidings of good things,
Who proclaims salvation,
Who says to Zion,
“Your God reigns!”

My Mission Scripture

Isaiah 28:20 pretty well sums up my mission:

"The bed is too short on which to stretch out, And the blanket is too small to wrap oneself in."