We had a pretty sweet New Year here in Paseo de Guadalupe! We ate with ganas the first of the year with the Garcia family! They are so sweet! We had carne asada and it was amazing! I ate like a pound of carne which is against the word of wisdom for not eating meat sparingly and that is why I got sick after. The Lord chastened me for not eating sparingly, so I am not going to do that again! We have had a pretty successful week here in our area! We found some amazing new people to teach and that is exactly what we needed! There is this man....Benito Cortez! Wow---he is just so cool! That man knows how to talk and not in a bad way! He is just the nicest guy and just makes you want to be his friend! We found him in the street contacting and looked for him a few times at his house without success. But were persistent because he made a big impact on us in our street contact! And sure did that pay off! We got there and he invited us in and the the lesson was amazing! That was Tuesday and then on Sunday morning we went back and he had pretty much taught the lesson to us. That is how well he understood the pamphlet. He told us more about his life. He is separated from his wife and has 2 kids. He works in San Pedro(the richest city in latin america) in a resturant that is one of the top ten in all of Mexico! He is the bar tender. That is going to be a real struggle because his boss likes his workers to try every new product that they are going to sell, so they can give advice to the customers. So we will see how that goes, but he then came to church with us after the lesson and brought his son with him! They really liked it. Then later that day we found another awesome man! His name is Javier and just so you can picture him, he looks exactly like the actor that plays Jesus in the church bible videos! With the same hair and beard and everything! Javier is a sweet dude! Our first lesson was awesome! He asked us why we talked to him in the street. He told us that he felt like it was the Lord extending his hand to him. Pretty sweet right? Yeah he is an interesting man! He has lived in all parts of Mexico before! He says that he travels around the country to learn how other people live and learn from life experiences! I am excited to teach that man!
We also found a guy named Gillermo last week. We had a sweet first lesson. He is a head chef for the Catholic seminary school for the future pastors of the Catholics. He cooks breakfast lunch and dinner for them, but he isn´t necessarily Catholic! He excepted a baptismal date from us which is not to uncommon. The hard part is to help them progress! I thought that he was pretty interested, but then he wasn't there for our next appointment and we passed by 5 times and never found him! So we were going to give up and then our district leader Elder Farmer asked us if we were teaching a Gillermo. We said yes and he told us that one of his investigators works for Gillermo and that Gillermo was telling everyone at work that we had a baptsimal date and was going get baptized soon! He palanched all the future pastors and told them that in all his time working there every day he had never once felt what he did in the 20 minute that we were in his house! He told them all that there is something different about our message! When I heard that from Elder Farmer, I felt so happy! The spirit is so powerful. The Lord uses his weak servants to bring to pass great miracles! We still haven't found him again, but we are going to go tonight to look for him. I am excited!
SO today we had a sweet campachana chef cook for us and we played soccer! This zone is sweet! We also ate jabaneros! My ears were tingling, it was so spicy! But now I am a true Mexican! hahah
Well, love you all. Have a great week!
ELder Quist
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