Hello family and friends!

Well this week was truly wonderful. We found an amazing family, the Perez family. They were in a Christian church, but for one reason or another they do not go there anymore. Anyways we contacted the dad in a bus, and then later we visited them and found out that they have 6 kids, ranging from just months to 18 years old. They are probably some of the humblest family I have ever met. They absolutely loved church this week and they pretty much are already members!!:) 

Also we should be having 2 baptisms this week! Erica and Nahum are their names. Erica is an eternal investigator for over a year, and Nahum a child of a family that we are reactivating. They are both so wonderful! Please pray that Erica can get moved out of her house and that Nahum can continue to learn so rapidly!

Well I am very excited for Christmas. "This is going to be metal"

We are going to do a service project and probably eat dinner at a members house and spread a little Christmas spirit by contacting the whole town and finding a golden family:)

I read an incredible talk this morning called "Approaching the Throne of God with Confidence". It basically talks about how to make your Celestial Crown sure. One of my favorite things that it said was that we need to make repentance something we do every moment, not just when we want to. A lot of times I get down thinking about all the stuff that I have done, and in the place of repenting in that very moment, I wallow in my misery...how much pain would we all save if we would just repent in the very instant that we sin! Well it sure was an answer to my prayers, and I sure hope that it was one to yours as well:) 

I love you all so much!

Elder Paz

 Hey family!

Well this week was a TON better than these last couple of weeks!

We worked really hard to have investigators at church. I prayed, fasted, contacted, worked with a ton of members and just tried to have a lot of hope. So you can imagine my distress when we were at church partaking the sacrament and almost nobody had come. I remember being just about angry, thinking about all of the stuff that we had done, looking for a mistake that we had made, and really just right out frustrated, when about half way through Sacrament Meeting a part member family that we had taught the day before walked in. I am not joking when I say that I almost cried. I literally felt the water come to my eyes for the joy that I felt for seeing that family. I almost could not believe what I was seeing. I learned an important lesson about humility these last couple weeks. I learned that we can not do it alone. There is no way, and less in the Work of the Lord. If we know do not do our part, then it is absolutely impossible that He does His. 

So there is a youth in our ward that is called Jarom. Jarom is a young priest that truly has that fire. He is one of those people that calls us up and asks when he can come with us. We actually have contacted with him quite a bit, and he always participates, but you can only imagine my surprise when he told us that he had been contacting on his own in the taxis and other transports:) To people that he has never seen before, we just gave him some pass along cards:) He is so excited about the work, I love his excitement!!:)

Well I love you guys and I hope that you all have the excitement and will to expand the Kingdom of God!!:) Read D and C 65:6!!:)

Elder Paz

 Hey folks!

Well this was another more difficult week...we are not seeing a ton of progress in our area, however I have hope that things will be better:)

We worked hard this week and a little more success. we aren't seeming to find very many of the chosen...we could really really really use your prayers to help us find those that are prepared by God:) I know that they are out there but man are they hard to find! Also it would be great if you could pray for Luis, Anai, Donovan, and Erica...thanks!

So I experienced some slight constipation for a few days these last couple weeks...don`t worry, I'm all better now:)

Cut my finger this morning washing a knife...typical thing I would do:)

So these last 2 weeks have been birthday weeks for my companion and I. His birthday was the 28th so basically between the 2 of us we have eaten cake about 4 times, and there is more to come as well...

Our house got all of its Christmas decorations up this week! Our mission president and his wife gave us lights and stuff:)

Well that's about all that happened this week! I love you all and say hi to Abbs for me!

 Hey family!

Genaro got baptized and entered the kingdom of God this weekend! It was a super spiritual experience. All of his friends and family were there and they made it excellent. It really is a different experience when your family and friends are there. Especially when those friends are the ones that brought you there.

Well this week I think the biggest thing that I learned was about being constant with your focus and desire. So we had a pretty good week last week and this week was doing fairly well also. At about Thursday we had already met some of standards of excellence for the week, were about to have a baptism, and also had about 6 people already promise us that they were going to church. It was looking to be one of the best weeks in my whole misión. And that is when I got a Little relaxed, thinking that everything was going to fall into place. I did not think too much about everything until Sunday afternoon at church, as I waited, and waited, waited, and nobody came. not a single investigator came. It was one of the hardest moments of my mission, I felt like I had failed God this week, which is not a greatest feeling. I thought about all the stuff that maybe I should have done, but I didn´t. I truly lost my focus and desire for a couple of days this last week. It makes me remember how sometimes in this life we think that we are doing pretty good. Maybe our church calling isn´t too difficult, we don´t have too much work, we read a good 10 minutes of the scriptures, whatever it may be, there are always those moments when we think we can take a Little break, take it a Little easy for a Little while. I learned once again this week that you can not do that. When that happens, we lose. We can never let that happen, the Celestial Crown is way to high to stop climbing. Never forget why you are here and what you need to do complete your purpose!

Well I hope that you all have a fantastic week and that you work hard to build the Kingdom of God! Love you!

Elder Paz