E-mail 01/12/2015

Well I´m starting to feel the effects of being a zone leader.  So yeah it was a crazy week with stuff that I expected and stuff I didn´t expect.  Well first off we had to do our monthly plans for the zone and get things ready for the meeting on Wednesday, and we visited some investigators that we are getting ready to leave for a time.  On Wednesday we got to the offices at 7:30 am (we got up early) had breakfast and then started the meeting, it was really good.  We talked a little about the plan de area Mexico 2015 that talks about being self sufficient physically and spiritually. (I heard that the missionaries that leave from Mexico will no longer receive help from the states, they have to pay for it) the church in Mexico is growing fast, well except for this part of Mexico. Pres. is concerned about the state of the mission, I don´t think we are the lowest baptizing mission in Mexico anymore, but we are definitely not close to the highest.  Gladly there has been baptisms every week so far this month in the zone.  Hopefully with time we can set a better example for the zone, right now we are looking for new people, so hopefully things can start moving.  We also talked about efforts and desires and I thought about the law of attraction, so I put a picture of a baptism on my desk to remind me of my commitment to help people come closer to our Father in Heaven through baptism.  When we finished the meeting we had some lunch and then went for the materials for the zone.  We finally got back to the house about 5-6ish and left to go visit some people. Then on Thursday we had our weekly planning, we received a call from Hermana Villarreal letting us know that an Hermana in our zone went to the hospital the night before and that we needed to go visit her to see what was going on and give her a blessing.  It was kind of a shocker because we didn´t know about it until that morning, so my comp. had a talk with the district leader about better communication.  We spending a couple hours in the hospital trying to figure things out and setting up an intercambio so her comp. could go to the house and get stuff that they needed.  Luckily the sickness isn´t severe, but she had to stay a couple of nights there.  When we finished that, we went and helped some Elders move their house because they have been having problems with the neighbors and he tried to get into the house, then we ran to an appointment that wasn´t there.  On Friday we had the zone conference and I had two talks about 20 min each, all went good with that, and then we got a few lessons in.  Then on Saturday we went to a baptism in the ward, because the person getting baptized wanted my comp. to do the ordinance.  On Sunday, it was so funny because Elder Condie always tells me and Elder Gutierrez that we will be giving a talk in church because he gave one his first week here, but it has never happened and this week some of the speakers didn´t arrive so they asked Elder Condie to give a talk and not us :)  We then had a meeting with the sumo consejero (High Councilor) over missionary work in the stake and we went to go eat with the stake pres. he feed us turkey with mashed potatoes :) So we didn´t get much time this week to visit people, but luckily we do have a family we are teaching in the house of members and they completed all their commitments, but they didn´t go to church because she just gave birth on Friday to a son.

So yeah it´s been crazy, and I don´t think it´ll calm down just yet.

Les amo

Elder Durrant