Week 55: Are Viejon
Hey Guys! A week has passed here in Caborca and we are doing great. We went to a Zone Leader meeting with all the Leaders of the mission and it was a great experience. We are ready to keep helping the missionaries in our zone be the best they can be. This week we had a baptism! A little girl named Gisela was baptized it was so great. The next Sunday her mom and her will both be confirmed because her mom had also been baptized but not confirmed. It was great! The assistance at church is pretty low. We are in a branch and 50 people went to church last Sunday. One of the coolest things that happened this week was with an investigator. There is a member in our ward name Claudia and her mom isn't a member of our faith. One day we didnt have anything to do so I asked Elder Starnes when we were contacting if there was anyone he knew that we could visit. He told me about Claudia's mom but she really didn't like meeting with the missionaries and that she didn't like going to church. We decided to go anyways jajaja. We talked for a while and got confidence and her attitude at the beginning began to change. It was a small miracle. She gladly accepted to read her pamphlet that we gave her sand we have a lesson scheduled with her! Her daughter called us this morning telling us how much her mother loved our visit! It was pretty amazing because she has always been against meeting with the missionaries but she wants to listen. Pretty amazing. 2 really crazy experiences we had was when we were riding on our bikes and we heard this lady screaming at the top of her lungs.We also heard this really loud banging noise and we thought that someone was beating her up. When we got closer, we saw this giant dog like HUGE biting this random woman and there was a man beating the dog to get him to stop biting. It was literally insane. Also, it was kind of sad but we saw a young man smoking weed in front of his family and they thought it was completly normal. Like literally there was a little girl that was 2 years old with him. It is pretty sad to see so many drug problems here. Other than than it was a good week. I am excited to see what this transfer has in store for us!
Giddy Up
Elder Smith