Week 14

Buenos Dias!  How is everything going back at home?  You all sound amazing and especially Abby!  I wish I was there to see how cute she is, but for now the videos and pictures are good enough...I can wait 2 years!  haha but just make sure to keep her cute!  

This week was so good!  The chapel open in our area and it is so nice!!  We had a few lessons in the chapel this week and felt the spirit so strong!  Earlier this week we contacted a guy in the street and invited him to come in and to see the chapel.  While we were sitting in the chapel feeling the spirit he expressed to us that he had been looking for the truth and was looking for a path to follow in his life but never could find anything that satisfied his desires for come unto Christ!  he then told us ---this just feels so right and so peaceful.  I haven't felt anything like this in my life!  We were literally in the chapel for 5 minutes and the spirit change this man's life possible forever!  We then went into the baptismal room and invited him to be baptized...he was so happy and accepted a baptismal date for 28 de junio!  The power of the Holy Spirit is indescribable!  This gospel is true and the priesthood was restored and for this reason la iglesia de jesucristo and its members have the power to help others change their lives by inviting them to accept the atonement of jesucristo.  We had 4 new investigators come to church for the first time and it was such a peaceful feeling to see them start to gain a testimony! 

I am uplifted by the changes that happen in others everyday and there is no greater joy then to be able to put 100 percent of my effort in helping the Lord in his work!  

Mom--I hope you get the pictures today!

ALex--Love you man!  give Abby a kiss for me

Dad!  thanks for sending the video!   Say hi to Quinn for me!  

Love you all and talk to you next week!  

This was only half way up the mountian!  but I was thinking about you mom and I just wanted to show you how much I love you and how grateful I am for all that you do for me!

Oh and we made ice cream for the ward mothers day party!

Week 13

I  loved the pictures of Abby this week. 

Well I'm not going to give you alot to read this week! hahah....I am doing great this week.  We taught 15 lessons with a member this week!  That is the most we have had. Everything is going great, but the work is hard.  We usually have 6 or 7 people who commit that they are for sure going to come to church and end up only have 2 or 3 investigators at church!  It is hard because we know how much going to church is going to help them and they always have something else more important to do.  

 

One spiritual experience we had this week is seeing how much the Book of Mormon can change the lives of our investigators. The investigators who read and kept their commitment are blessed. There is a promise in Preach My Gospel that when they keep the commitments they are forgiven of their sin.  Through the commitments they can repent and prepare for baptism.  We had a couple lessons this we that were so very powerful.  We read from the Book of Mormon and could see their lives being changed before our eyes as they began to gain a testimony of the Book of Mormon in less the 30 min.  The power that this book has is amazing! Elder Holland has a qoute that says something like¨¨no evil man could write such a book and no good man would write such a book(translate) unless he were called of God to do so!¨¨  I stand with Elder Holland in my testimony of this divinely inspire book...this book is what our whole religion is founded on and I know it to be true!

I am loving Mexico!

ELder Quist

Week 12

I am so glad that I got to talk to you yesterday!  It was such a good experience and I feel so grateful to have such a strong family in the gospel!  It is amazing to see how much closer I feel to you mom and dad, Alex, Shelby and Cam being so far away!  But I really know that the Lord is blessing us in every aspect of our lives.  I felt those blessing when Shelby left and I feel them even more strongly right now!  SO Monday we went to climb the(huge mountain) Cerro de la Cilla!  We woke up at 4am and hiked mostly all the day ( that is why there was no letter last week sorry) It was so amazing!  Like I said I really haven't  been in a cooler place in my life!  With the monkeys running around and being able to see the city from so high up and mountains that went on forever was amazing!  We had so many good times as a zone!  I feel a lot closer to the elders and all of the missionaries in the zone!  It was a 3 hour hike up and 3 hours down and surprisingly I was not tired at all going up but going down was so hard!  Another elder and I walk backward almost half the way down!  It sounds crazy but try it sometime!  It really does feel better on the feet and the legs when the hill is so steep!  I am sure we looked ridiculous but it was worth it!  

Sometimes I start to feel better with my Spanish and then I get humbled by someone that can't understand a word I say! hahah...but really I am so grateful for the hard time is the mission to humble me!  

So yesterday after talking to you, we got right back to work!  (oh and by the way sorry for crying a little bit! I really am not sad at all...I was so happy to see you all.  I don't miss home very much because I am so busy, but really I only cried a little bit because how can a son watch his mom cry without crying! )  

We went to teach a menos activo right after and had such a spiritual lesson!  We talked to the family about how we just talked to our families.  Then we shared a message.  It was probably the most powerful lesson we have had and more then anything I feel so grateul for what I learned in those 20 minutes!  Everytime I teach I learn more then my investigators learn.  I feel so blessed to be a missionary and a repersentative of Jesus Chist! I feel the guidance of the spirit in every lesson and the words I say are directed by the Holy Spirit. They are not my words and this is exactly why I feel like I learn so much in our lessons. What better way to learn then to have the words of the Lord (in another language)  come to my mind and share my testimony of this witness with the sons and daughters of God!  I feel so blessed and like elder Hatch said, the mission is really a selfish time in which we learn and grow so much!  

Thanks so much for talking to me yesterday. I feel so inspired by your words and more then anything, so inspired by who you are mom dad alex shelby and cameron!  You are all inspirations to me and help me work harder everyday!  I love you so much Alex and don't worry I know  it is hard to talk when you miss someone so much!  But don't focus on how much you miss Shelby and I...focus on how grateful we should be to our Father in Heaven for the amazing relationships we have!  

Love elder Quist