Okay, this week was a big one, an awesome one, but a big one!!
Elder Molina and I are doing awesome, we get along great and he's just a really good and really funny guy. We are all in good spirits here! And living with two other missionaries is just better, officialmente! Hahaha! It's just been good!
This week we had some people get baptized and it was really awesome! One was a family who started talking about the church with their cousins a couple months ago. They were able to get baptized, and it was a super cool moment :) they really are a special family. Also, a kid got baptized, and is a cousin of the members in Cerro Grande that owned a panaderia!!! So I got to see a BUNCH of people from the first area of my mission!!! That was way fun and we were able to catch up on so many things. That was pretty awesome! :)
Also this week I met a new gringo missionary, his name is Elder Clymore. He's in Tech 2, (we're in Tech 1). I met him when we had a combined Zone meeting, and he says 'Hey, you're the missionary with the blog, right?' Hahahah! So that was cool, thanks Mom for keeping that going! ;) (Note from Nick's Mom: When I discover new Missionaries preparing to serve in Chihuahua Mexico or new Chihuahua Missionary Moms on social media or through group or friends, I always reach out and invite them to browse Nick's blog to see people and places their missionary may encounter while serving, or get a feel for work, weather, and landscapes of Chihuahua! We connected with Elder Clymore's Mom as he was preparing to serve. Connecting with other Missionaries and Moms has been a huge blessing to this Mom!! It makes Chihuahua feel like it's not so far away)!
This week I learned a lot and had a lot to think about. First was something President Montoya said. He was addressing all of the earthquakes in Mexico and used them as an example saying... If any of us see what's on television, and see images of people in Mexico working very urgently to reach out to search and rescue people who are buried under concrete or rubble. Each life is precious and there are people trapped who want to be rescued, and need the help of other people to work and do what is necessary to save them. He asked us the question, why are we not searching with the same urgency in our missionary work? There are people who are spiritually trapped, and if we do not work with urgency to find them and try to help them, they could stay spiritually lost and stuck waiting and wanting to leave, but whose souls are imprisoned by sins or circumstance unless we reach them and work to show them the way out! The work of salvation needs to be just as urgent because each soul is precious and worth saving - and that is why we are here!
Also, I've been reading the Bible a lot, and I really liked something I found in John chapter 9. It's the story of Christ when he healed a blind man, but the story doesn't end with that miracle. The blind man was healed because of his faith, but he went through a lot of trials after that because of the pharisees. So, after all was said and done, offcials made fun of him, and then cast him out which was kind of a big deal because he doesn't just get run out of town he's completely rejected by his culture. But the book of John adds details that I really like, in verse 35-38, even after he was cast out, Christ found him. He didn't just bless him and leave him, he stayed watchful of him, and when he needed Christ again, He was there to find him. It's something that gave me a lot of hope for the future. :) Christ doesn't come and go, He comes and stays and waits for us. :)
Love you guys! till next time!
Nick
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