Buenas tardes familia y amigos!!
S/out to good ole Orem Utah for existing for a whoppin 100 years! What an accomplishment, that place is much missed haha.
The
highlight this week was the zone conference! We had a combined zone
conference with four zones because there were some special
announcements. First off, we celebrated our mission "Iron Man" by
getting over 212 baptisms in three months! And many of us got person
Iron Man awards for getting over three baptisms personally!
President
then announced another initiative as a mission that still involved
baptisms but there was more emphasis on recent convert progress so thats
good. Im excited for how the goal can help the mission and my zone!
The
best part of the conference was when Pres Kimball announced to us that
Elder Cook is coming to our mission on February!! IM SO EXCITED. He's
coming with the members of the Seventy and a member of the Presiding
Bishopric!! I cant help but think that changes are gonna happen, or else
why would so many be coming? But wait, thats not all. I get to sing in
the conference with three other Elders!!! Pres asked us a while ago to
start preparing something for a special event but we didnt know until
the conference that we'd be singing for an Apostle! Im super excited.
Not
too much more news from good ole Pachuca. We have a rockin panaderia
where we get some high quality bread on successful days. We've been
riding thousands of combis around the city. The number of deaths from
the gas accidents has exceeded 100. We've been helping some neighbor
girls with their English homework. Oh and we had quite the experience
eating lunch with members a few days ago. Elder Cassat was saying the
opening prayer, and during his prayer, the food on the stove just
completely exploded! There was a humongous flame and boiling oil that
flew everywhere! It got on all of us but somehow none of us got burnt!
Literally a miracle haha but it was quite the scare! We have no idea why
it happened but it was quite the experience, we are all alive and will
so dont worry haha.
This week I
reflected a lot on a talk by Elder Holland that talks about the story of
Peter getting asked by Jesus if he loved it. Jesus asked him three
times if he loved him. Peter was very sensitive to "threes" at this
point. And then the Lord told him to feed his sheep. The Lord had
already asked him to do it but Peter was confused when Jesus died and
just went fishing with the other Apostles. So Jesus appeared in this
story to ask him again to feed his sheep. Elder Holland says that that
was the day Peter converted into the great Apostle. That was the day he
was converted. A lot of times, the Lord has to ask us to do things
multiple times. I reflected on how I already accepted my mission call
but I should always be accepting my call every day, remembering what I
have been asked to do.
Que tenga una buena semana!!
Elder Millard