Well this week has been awesome as always! On Monday night my companion and I were talking about how awesome our time together was. I really feel so blessed to have had him as a companion! He taught me so much and I know I wouldn't have learned what I learned from anyone else then him. We felt an amazing peace come over us that night as we sat in our house talking because we knew that the 4 months that we were together was an inspired time of the Lord. That isn't to say that we felt that we did a perfect job together, but we felt that we had been forgiven our our weaknesses and mistakes and that the Lord knew that we did our best and He is happy with our work! So early on Tuesday morning we went to the misison offices for cambios! And guess what? I am training! My companion is from Mexico City. He is 18 years old. He is really awesome! It feels so weird to go from being with my trainer to being a trainer and having a lot more responsibilities! We had a sucessful week together and we are learning fast how to work together! He is really struggling with the heat and never feels like contacting, so we are going to go to one of the huge markets on Wednesday so he can lose his fear of contacting!
I love seeing the video of Abby! It is weird to think that I knew her for 2 weeks! Man she is so big! I cannot believe that she has 6 months and that I have 6 months in the mission! It has gone by so fast! Oh....whenever I see a baby that has 6 months I think of Abby! We have an investigator that is 15 years old and has a a baby of 9 months! Yeah...it is scary! But she seems to be a good mom!
So we have an investigator that is just pure GOOOOOLLLDDD! I don't know if I have told you about her but she is called Melisa! She was in a relationship with a guy named Pablo (one of the best men I have ever met! He is soooo cool). They have 2 kids together, but they are not married. About 4 months ago Melisa left Pablo because she was angry. She left the kids with Pablo and went with another man! Pablo got depressed for a little while and then the missionaries found him and he got baptismed in less the 2 months! He changed everything (he used to be an alcoholic and addicted to drugs). 2 months after leaving him Melisa felt really bad for leaving her kids so she went back to see her kids... and told us "it was a mircale. I did not know what I was seeing, my x boyfriend had changed his life and I could hardly recognize him. He changed everything. I knew that God had to be a part of it because he was so happy and just had a light about him. I was expecting to see a single father struggling to raise 2 kids and deal with his addictions, but I saw just the opposite! " I can't tell you how amazing it is to be part of their lives! Melisa is going to be baptized next month and is so happy to leave her old life behind and start over! I don't know if Pablo is ever going to marry Melisa because she cheated on him, but he is so humble and amazing that he is sharing the gosple with her and is the best example of humility and love ever. He has also shared the gospel with his brother! His brother was baptized a month ago! And his mom and his aunt are listening the missionaries right now and want to get baptized! My testimony of the atonement is so much stronger seeing these changes in their lives! The power of the atonement to change lives is amazing! I know that Christ is our Savior and that we can be freed from whatever sin, addiction, affliction or weakness that we have in our lives! MAN... It is just so awesome!
That is so cool that Carter and Clark are teaching Coleman through skype!
We have a baptism of a girl named Lizbeth this Sunday! I am really excited!
Alex is just a machine that never stops. take it easy bro. You still need to serve a mission. Don't use all you energy now! haha, You're awesome! Keep practicing basketball so maybe when I get home you can finally beat me;) just kidding, you are already better then me, but I´ll tell you what! I am going to school you in soccer!
Mom- I'm am glad that you had a good birthday! Tahoe Joes sounds so good right now!
Dad- That is so exciting for Hannah! That would be so cool to go to Italy on a mission but also very hard! Tell her that I love her and tell her how happy I am for her and her decision to serve a mission! Yeah the weather is pretty bad, but I am getting used to it! I dont think I have ever drunk just bottled water! hahha....It is because we just go to someones house if we are thristy! It is a great way to contact! Love you so much Dad! Thanks for always being a great example of how a man should treat a woman(Mom)! You are awesome and I am always happy to hear your letters! And I am not homesick at all but yes sometimes I do wish I could just relax at home with the family.
Oh I forgot to tell you about something awesome that happened! Well maybe not awesome, but I thought it was pretty funny! When Elder Astacio and I were together we went to the house of Eulaio (recent convert) to say goodbye to him and we thought it would be funny to play a joke on my next companion that I was going to have the next day. Eulalio is always joking with us so we decide to plan a joke on my next companion! ( not knowing that I would be training a missionary and that it would be his first day in the mission). We just told him to act like he didn't want to us to be in his house! So then the next day I went and got my companion and forgot about the joke we were going to play. We arrived at our appointment at 7:00 on Tuesday (my comps first day in the mission!) Eulaio was upstairs and came down the stair when we entered and started yelling and picked up a hammer and told us to get out and never come back! Yeah so my comp was pretty scared and I felt bad, but it was still pretty awesome. Now my comp and I laugh about it, but he was so SCARED!!!!
Yeah that is the story!
Love you
Elder Quist
