Real del Monte

Buenas Buenas tardes from one of the highest inhabited places in all of Mexico! It was cool to be able to get to know Real del Monte better this week! I hope all of you are doing well!

On Tuesday this week, we went with the bishop to real del monte to meet some less actives and get to know the area a little bit. This place is like a MAZE! Holy crap its gonna be so hard to navigate. A lot of streets dont have names and all of the are super crooked and lead to random paths and there are hardly any main streets! It has been interesting navigating throughout the place, especially with all of the crazy hills!

Honestly its been kind of a slow start. Since there hasnt been constant missionary work for a very long time, there are no investigators, converts, or anything. We've met a few people from part member families and so far those are our only investigators. Weve contacted quite a bit but wow this place is Catholic! Im used to going to other pueblos that are also very catholic but this place is even more extreme. While we were contacting, there was a woman low key following us and knocking the same doors we knocked but to organize their next march to worship the catholic saints and everything hahaha. Despite a lot of rejection, we have find a few people who we have appointments with this week. I hope they progress! I have faith that this week will be better and we'll find more people. Its going to be very complicated to figure out the sunday situation with the reunions canceled! The mission right now is figuring out how to act, and how to measure investigators progress instead of requiring the 3 sacrament meeting attendances. 

RIght now we're living with the other Elders in Loreto and we're still trying to find a house. Right now we're just living out of our luggage haha there's no space to hang up our clothes and unpack! I hope we'll find something soon. all of the options have been falling through.

My kid is doing well! He's doing great in the few lessons we've had, but he still doesn't feel used to contacting and the rejection haha but thats definitely normal. We just have to be patient that the Lord will provide us with people to teach! Its been a while that Ive been so desperate to find new investigators, but thats part of opening a brand new area!

This week I finished Helaman in the Book of Mormon and I really like the part where Nephi's preaching was rejected but that the Lord comforted him and he didnt even get home by the time he turned around to keep on preaching to the people. Those feelings of rejection were kind of what I was feeling, just a little less extreme obviously haha, but It gave me motivation to return to the pueblo to keep on preaching! Its never been an easy thing to do, thats why I know it'll take some time to see results!

Les amo a todos!

Elder Millard

Pics: Ill miss working with them! Welcome Elder Cordeiro to the offices!

(we ended up moving to Atotonilco, a pueblo a little further away from Real del Monte to start working. Everything was going great until the virus shut everything down.)