Well I need to get better at organizing my time now, I don't have very much time right now.
Mom and Dad, thanks for your words of encouragement and support! It has been really great and it was just what I needed! You are great parents and what you said really is going to help me!
Well, although I have had less time in my area with the people I feel like the Lord is making the time that I do have in my area really worth while! We have had a lot of spiritual experiences! I would say this has to be the best time in my mission so far! My companion is great! We are having a great time together and working in alot of unity! He is a great friend!
Next week I promise I will send more and pictures but this is all for now ! I love you all so much! You are the best family! and Alex! keep being an awesome example for me!
Elder Quist
Week 81
I can not tell you how grateful I am to be able to hear from you every week! You are the best parents. Although I am not the best at dedicating my time to writing! I think that the reason for that is that I do not like to be in-front of the computer. It is probably because I have come to love the people here in Monterrey so much that I do not like the time that I am not able to be with the humble Regios(that is what the people from Monterrey are called).
This last couple weeks have gone by really fast! This week we were able to have 3 exchanges! I feel so blessed due to the amazing experiences that I am having every hour, day, and week! Last week we were able to go on exchanges with a companionship of missionaries that I love and know well. Elder Domgaard was in my district in the MTC. I had the privilege to work with him! We had a hard day, but just as it was hardest for young Joseph right before the first vision, we were able to have a glorious experience at the end a difficult day! We arrived to the house of a recent convert family, as we started talking we got a sense that the Sister in the family was struggling with something! Little by little we noticed that she felt sad and discouraged. Just months after her baptism she started feeling a strong desire to have the opportunity to speak in sacrament meeting. So she started studying every day for 3 months straight to give the talk that she prepared! One Sunday when she felt ready, not understanding the order of things in the church, she went up to the Bishop 15 minutes before sacrament meeting started and asked him if that day she could speak. When the Bishop explained that the assignment to speak in sacrament meeting were given with more anticipation she took as if he was saying that SHE was not ready yet. She went home discouraged and with the confidence the converts usually have in the missionaries, explained everything to us. We tried to express our love for her in the best words we could but that was not enough. Words will never be enough. As I looked at that sister, who truly completed with requirement of having a broken heart and a contrite spirit, with tears streaming down her face I felt something that few times in my life I have felt. In some unexplainable way the Lord allowed me to feel the same love the he felt for her in that moment. That feeling made me remember the countless times in my life that I had, either vocally or in my mind (it is the same), complained about a talk or an assignment that the Lord had given me. It made me want to be more like this humble lady. She worried that she was not good enough after all her preparation. She worried that she was not good enough in the eyes of the Lord! Oh how blessed are the truly humble of heart. That worry stems from a true desire to be worthy to be sealed in the temple with her family as she explained to us! My desires are being purified and I hope to get to her level one day.
This is why I love the mission!
Things are going great Mom and Dad! I will try to give you more details next week! and maybe pictures but no promises! haha. I love you so much!
Elder Quist
