This week has been difficult. I want to be a good missionary, a great companion, and an excellent leader but I feel so inadequate. We didn´t teach a whole lot of lessons this week nor did we have a lot luck finding more people to teach, and not one person came to church for the first time. My companion is really great though. He always has a good attitude about things and I think he teaches better than me even though I have 7 months more experience. I have a few ideas for activities and things the ward can do to help that I am proposing to the bishopric, but everything moves along at such a slow pace. The good news is Patricia and her son Diego were confirmed yesterday and are doing great. Sometimes I get stressed out because I still can´t remember where a lot of the streets and I get lost sometimes. Other times all the appointments fall through and we end up in a place where I´ve knocked every door several times and I just don´t know what to do. So, I keep walking and talk to everyone in the street and look for doors that I don´t remember knocking. Ughh, then I get down because the people that told me they were going to come to church don´t come. It´s exhausting.
In answer to Dad´s question: Yes, we can go with members to make their home teaching visits. I have actually offered to go with a few people. The difficult part is actually getting them to go.
Thank you for your reponse to my questions, Mom. I hope you don´t have to keep worrying about these health issues for much longer.
I love you,
Brett
Monday, February 21, 2011
feb 7, 2011
I saw the superbowl on tv when I entered the house of an investigator to teach them a lesson yesterday. I had totally forgotten that it was coming up soon. But I overcame the temptation to watch it and immediately asked them to turn it off. Haha.
This week has been equally difficult except for Tuesday when I some how wound up teaching 4 lessons to non-members, all of which I had to teach entirely by myself because we did divisions with the district leader that day and his companion who just barely arrived to Mexico and speaks almost no spanish came with me to my area. The rest of the week was pure rejection. Everyone always talks about Puebla being the most Catholic place in Mexico, but I think Tlaxcala definitely wins that contest. However, I still think this is my favorite area so far just for the few people that have accepted the Gospel, the natural beaty of the area, and a few awesome members. Fortunately, after a long and stressful week the second counselor in the stake presidency, the same guy that took us out to eat seafood a while ago, invited us to go up to the very top of the hill in the town we live in and take some really cool pictures of Tlaxcala, the city, from above before the sun came up. Then we did some mountain biking on the same hill. It was super cool! My companion had never gone mountain biking before and was super tired after. We took the pictures with his camera. He´s going to make me a CD of them. Speaking of pictures, did my memory card ever get there? That would really stink if I lost all those pictures.
I thought you guys already went skiing with Brent at Christmas. In fact, I was wondering why nobody had told me how it went. Or was the ski trip with Brent planned for spring break?
Thank you for writing me even when your in pain, Mommy. I love you. How was your birthday? Are you finally taking a little break from running?
Brett
This week has been equally difficult except for Tuesday when I some how wound up teaching 4 lessons to non-members, all of which I had to teach entirely by myself because we did divisions with the district leader that day and his companion who just barely arrived to Mexico and speaks almost no spanish came with me to my area. The rest of the week was pure rejection. Everyone always talks about Puebla being the most Catholic place in Mexico, but I think Tlaxcala definitely wins that contest. However, I still think this is my favorite area so far just for the few people that have accepted the Gospel, the natural beaty of the area, and a few awesome members. Fortunately, after a long and stressful week the second counselor in the stake presidency, the same guy that took us out to eat seafood a while ago, invited us to go up to the very top of the hill in the town we live in and take some really cool pictures of Tlaxcala, the city, from above before the sun came up. Then we did some mountain biking on the same hill. It was super cool! My companion had never gone mountain biking before and was super tired after. We took the pictures with his camera. He´s going to make me a CD of them. Speaking of pictures, did my memory card ever get there? That would really stink if I lost all those pictures.
I thought you guys already went skiing with Brent at Christmas. In fact, I was wondering why nobody had told me how it went. Or was the ski trip with Brent planned for spring break?
Thank you for writing me even when your in pain, Mommy. I love you. How was your birthday? Are you finally taking a little break from running?
Brett
February 14,2011
This week has been difficult. I want to be a good missionary, a great companion, and an excellent leader but I feel so inadequate. We didn´t teach a whole lot of lessons this week nor did we have a lot luck finding more people to teach, and not one person came to church for the first time. My companion is really great though. He always has a good attitude about things and I think he teaches better than me even though I have 7 months more experience. I have a few ideas for activities and things the ward can do to help that I am proposing to the bishopric, but everything moves along at such a slow pace. The good news is Patricia and her son Diego were confirmed yesterday and are doing great. Sometimes I get stressed out because I still can´t remember where a lot of the streets and I get lost sometimes. Other times all the appointments fall through and we end up in a place where I´ve knocked every door several times and I just don´t know what to do. So, I keep walking and talk to everyone in the street and look for doors that I don´t remember knocking. I get down because the people that told me they were going to come to church don´t come. It´s exhausting.
In answer to Dad´s question: Yes, we can go with members to make their home teaching visits. I have actually offered to go with a few people. The difficult part is actually getting them to go.
Thank you for your reponse to my questions, Mom. I hope you don´t have to keep worrying about these health issues for much longer.
I love you,
Brett
In answer to Dad´s question: Yes, we can go with members to make their home teaching visits. I have actually offered to go with a few people. The difficult part is actually getting them to go.
Thank you for your reponse to my questions, Mom. I hope you don´t have to keep worrying about these health issues for much longer.
I love you,
Brett
February 21, 2011
Sorry, about last week. The truth I simply did not have time to write last week. It´s pretty lame because I´m only given an hour to email, but I have to write a brief report with the numbers for the week to the President, I have to upload the contacts I made with people who accepted a visit from the missionaries but live outside my area so that the missionaries where they live can visit them, I have to check to see if we received referrals on the same internet site, and now the stake president also wants a weekly report from us. By the time I can write to you guys I´m nearly out of time. But, I managed to finish a little faster this time.
I sent a package home with a photo album, a few books, and a cool volcanic rock I found here (it´s for Marc). I read some of that book you sent me about David O. Mckay and I love it, but I don´t think I´m every going to have time to read it. So, I sent it home. I want to read it when I return. I think this will be the last package I send home because it´s a complete rip off, even using the Mexican mail system and not a private shipper.
Poor Kendric, I remember being a missionary in Utah too. We hardly ever knocked the door of a person we didn´t know. We at least always knew beforehand if the person that lived there was a member or not. We drove around in a new car everywhere, and we lived with a member who let us take whatever we wanted out of their fridge. Oh ya, and we went to the gym to workout in the morning. It´s tough. Haha. But all sarcasm aside, it still had it´s difficulties. A mission no matter what part of the world your in I think will always be more hard mentally and emotionally than it is hard physically. I can´t believe Kendric already came back. Wow! I can´t believe I already almost have a year in the mission.
It´s still been hard to find new investigators and even harder to find new investigators that want to do more than just listen to us, but yesterday I was given some motivation when the husband of a lady that was baptized in the first week after I arrived to this area accepted an invitation to be baptized March 6. It´s amazing the change that he has undergone. He was strongly against his wife being baptized and was very critical of the church, but now he´s gone like 4 times to church, is reading the book of mormon, loves talking to us, and is striving to change his life by obeying all the commandments. It would fill my soul with joy to see him be baptized before I left this area. Hopefully, it will happen. March 6 is the Sunday before transfers and I could very well be transfered the following day.
Well, I got to go. I love you Mommy and hope you feel better soon.
Love,
Brett
I sent a package home with a photo album, a few books, and a cool volcanic rock I found here (it´s for Marc). I read some of that book you sent me about David O. Mckay and I love it, but I don´t think I´m every going to have time to read it. So, I sent it home. I want to read it when I return. I think this will be the last package I send home because it´s a complete rip off, even using the Mexican mail system and not a private shipper.
Poor Kendric, I remember being a missionary in Utah too. We hardly ever knocked the door of a person we didn´t know. We at least always knew beforehand if the person that lived there was a member or not. We drove around in a new car everywhere, and we lived with a member who let us take whatever we wanted out of their fridge. Oh ya, and we went to the gym to workout in the morning. It´s tough. Haha. But all sarcasm aside, it still had it´s difficulties. A mission no matter what part of the world your in I think will always be more hard mentally and emotionally than it is hard physically. I can´t believe Kendric already came back. Wow! I can´t believe I already almost have a year in the mission.
It´s still been hard to find new investigators and even harder to find new investigators that want to do more than just listen to us, but yesterday I was given some motivation when the husband of a lady that was baptized in the first week after I arrived to this area accepted an invitation to be baptized March 6. It´s amazing the change that he has undergone. He was strongly against his wife being baptized and was very critical of the church, but now he´s gone like 4 times to church, is reading the book of mormon, loves talking to us, and is striving to change his life by obeying all the commandments. It would fill my soul with joy to see him be baptized before I left this area. Hopefully, it will happen. March 6 is the Sunday before transfers and I could very well be transfered the following day.
Well, I got to go. I love you Mommy and hope you feel better soon.
Love,
Brett
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