Bueno Bueno Bueno familia y amigos! Como han estado??
Its
2019 baby!! 2018 absolutely flew by. Its weird to think that I was
still in high school in 2018 haha. A lot has happened. But ill be
spending all of this year in Mexico haha so at least I know what Ill be
doing.
This week was a little bit
rough for the zone with everyone being gone for vacations and baptisms
falling through all over the place. This has been the problem for whole
mission, and Im sure for all other missions too. I dont know if I look
up to holidays on the mission because overall the work just becomes
slower. But we were still able to find some cool new investigators and
we are planned to baptize Briza and Arturo this saturday! Theyre some of
my contacts from my first week here with Elder Housley, and they
progressed super fast so now theyre ready for baptism!
New
years Eve was so much fun!! We had some good dinner with a member of
the stake presidency and his fam and other Elders. Then we went and
played card games (mainly scum haha) and whipped out the martinellis we
bought for the new years! Fun times.
New
years morning, today, we got a call from President Kimball inviting
Elder Housley and I to go trail running in a national park here in
Pachuca!! We met him at a plaza as soon as we could and then headed on
our way. OH MY GOSH this place was absolutely heaven. The place is
called Mineral del Chico and its a huge tourist place but up in the
mountains there are a bunch of trails. We ran for eight miles just the
four of us and it was definitely the funnest activity Ive done in the
mish so far. I got to know President a lot better, and we just all had a
good time running together! Elder Housley is also a runner so we've
been running a little here by our house in the mornings but this was
just something else. Pres took a bunch of action shots of some classic
jumps we did on the trail and everything. We finished the run and ended
in the city of El Chico and walked around a little bit. We bought some
amazing roasted peanuts, and checked out some ancient cathedrals in the
city. We took a combi back to the car and headed back home after about
four hours. What a fun trip though. This would have been a dream to
think about before the mission. Getting to do one of the things I love
most with my mission president, his wife, and one of my fav comps.
Definitely an experience I wont forget.
I
dont know what it was but on Sunday I had such a special feeling of
love for the mission and this place Im serving. I love this culture to
death, and everything that I've been learning. The people are so
different but so amazing and humble here. I know there are a lot of
experiences still waiting for me but I already have so many things Ill
never forget. The combis, the tacos, the tortillas, the destroyed sewer
systems, the concrete houses, the classic old mexican music, the
chilangos, the tiangis, the dancing, the sun feeling like its 10 feet
away from you, the beautiful sunsets but not so beautiful cities haha,
the poverty, the catholics, the traditions, but most of the all the
effect that the gospel can have on these people.
There
are so many incredible one-liners in the new testament. One of them
that I would like to share this week is from Luke 18:28 which is when
Peter is talking to Jesus right after he finished talking about how hard
is is for a [rich man[ to enter into the kingdom of God, and the
scripture says "Then Peter said, Lo, we have left all, and followed
thee."
There are so many instances in the New Testament where
Christ{s Apostles and other servants decide to leave everything
immediately to follow Christ. In this new year I hope that we can all do
everything we can to [leave all and follow Christ.[ This doesnt mean we
have to drop our jobs, hobbies, studies or anything but it does mean
that we need to but God in the first place. We need to make him the
priority and be willing to give everything. We will be blessed so much
more this year if we can focus and Christ and find out more about him.
Get to know him, read about him, and do your best to become like him.
Feliz Ano Nuevo!!
Elder Millard
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