Hello Everyone, Thank you for the letters loved to get them
:)
It was an awesome week this week in Etchojoa, we were able
to get a lot of work done ha-ha, I’m really enjoying my time with my new
companion he is a really amazing guy he is from Puebla, the same place as my
old comp Elder Sanchez I always give Elder Reyes are hard time saying, oh my
heavens Elder Reyes I thought Heavenly Father was going to give me a break and
not put me with another companion from Puebla, ha-ha he just laughs, but he’s a
really good guy, he has quite the life story and I admire him for the faith
that he has I think I’m going to talk about him a little bit, He was baptized
just a few years ago he is 24 years old and was baptized when he was 21, and he
is the only member in his family he has 3 brothers and a sister just like me he
is also the middle child :) but i asked about his parents and he told me that
when he was 18 years old his Mom passed away.... and he doesn’t know a whole
lot about his Dad, he’s Dad left when he was young, and the last he heard about
his Dad is that he was really sick and on the urge of death... He had to take
care of his brothers and sisters before the mission and well, choose to come on
the mission, even without the approval of his girlfriend ha-ha she didn’t want
him to go on the mission even though she is a member of the church ha-ha, but
he still came on the mission :) he’s a really cool guy, I don’t tell you guys
these things so that you felt bad but so that we can always recognize the
blessings that our heavenly father has given to us, We are all a blessed people
with a loving heavenly father that is in heaven that loves us so much
but now about the work We had our District Meeting on Tuesday and we talked
about the importance of the Book of Mormon and the way it converts us to the
church but more to the Gospel and our Savior Jesus Christ. We were able to have
a lesson with a less active sister and it was really cool, we felt the spirit
super strong because we talked about the importance of the restored church, an
also we talked about how the families can be together forever. on Wednesday we
went to help a less active make a little brick house we only got the first part
done, but he was really grateful for the work that we did, ha-ha we shared a
lesson with him afterwards, and we asked him to read a scripture, and he went
to get his glassed to read and what happened next reminded me of something
Uncle Ernie would do ha-ha he brought back some glasses but the ahhh I’m
forgetting English haha the part that is on the ear well the two sides were
broken and so what he had done is tied a string from one side of the glasses to
the other and he used that string to make like a headband thing for his glasses
to keep them on his nose and so he could use them haha it just made me laugh a
little and reminded me of some of our family members ha-ha. Thursday well this
is a branch here in Etchojoa so we also have some little towns that we have to
teach in and as in Bacobampo they are far away we went to Las Guayabas on
Thursday and flip it was so hot there weren’t any tress on the way it was just
a little dirt road that we had to take, but we finally got there, and got some
lessons in with the people that live there, we were able to find a lot of new
investigators this day so that was really good. Friday was kind of an
interesting day because we found a really cool family haha we saw a lady
weeding her garden and so we decided to o help her , and we helped her and all,
and we started talking and then asked me if I knew English and itolder her say
yes, and she told us that, they lived I California for like 5 years and that
her son had learned English, so she called for him and he came out and we
started talking ha-ha, it was kind of goofy he told me he really missed the USA
and wants to go back. We found a really cool sister, that wanted to listen to
us and she promised to go to church but didn’t show up so we are going to find
out why, ahhhh we found a super catholic guy!!! hahha it was super hard to
teach the little old guy because he was so hard in the heart we told him that
what would he do if God told him to get baptized in the true church and he said
i would tell him that I’m catholic ahhhhh haha it’s so silly how people can be
so heard hearted even to our Heavenly Father let us all be patient and
submissive even as a child to his father :) On Sunday well I thought I
was off the hook because here it’s a branch like Bacobampo but there are
councilors, but when I showed up with five minutes to start they are like Elder
Tanner you’re going to give a talk haha somethings never change haha, but it’s
really cool to be in a branch because you can see the progression and really get
to know the members, I’m super excited to be working here and we are going for it all, but please pray so
that we can find the people that want to make changes in their life and are
willing to make covenants with our heavenly Father I love you guys so much :)
and thanks for everything
Love Elder Tanner
Love Elder Tanner