Elder Ross Warburton:Mexico Puebla North Mission: All Roads Lead to Zacatlan

Well to start out Jesus Manuel got baptized last Saturday night and it all went good. We finally got to meet his dad too. He seems like hes a pretty nice guy, he just doesn't have his priorities in line, so we need to meet with him and help him out on that.

Also we got a reference from some elders who are working in Kentucky. I contacted her over the phone last Wednesday and then on Saturday during the baptism I get a text from her asking if she can still go to church. I told her of course and she showed up Sunday morning. After church we taught her and she is one of the most prepared people i have met in awhile and that's saying something because we've been meeting some really prepared people. We set a baptismal date for October 20th and she is so looking forward to it. I asked her how much time she would have to read each day because she is studying and she made my jaw drop when she said "i can read about three hours everyday. I like reading." The next lesson we had with her she came with her Book of Mormon and lesson 1 pamphlet all marked up and her questions ready to go. She had read all of lesson one, the introduction for the Book of Mormon, and Mosiah 18 in the space of two days. I don't know about the rest of the world, but that never happens in mexico.

On Monday we went to the doctor again for my ankle and he said that i could go home and get a surgery and that that would be the best option. Then he said i needed to go into one of those MRI tube things to get checked out. After the appointment i talked with the mission presidents wife and she was way mad. She started going off about how that doctor is a scam artist who only wants money from the church and that no more missionaries are going to him. So as of right now i think my ankle is good, but i have to go to a different doctor if i ever get time to call him.

All the members here are starting to notice how many people we are bringing to church, so its nice that they are warming up to us now and seeing the success we are having they are more willing to help. The bishop still needs some work because the only thing he wants us to do is actualize the ward list and other than that we don't exist, but ahi va poco a poco.

Two missionaries had to go home yesterday and i got told they were going home Wednesday night, so that kind of threw off a lot of the plans we had because we had to get a lot of stuff ready for them.

Friday was way awesome. The house secretary had to go and take all of the stuff out of a house in Zacatlan (my old area), so i got to go with him to guide them through Zacatlan. It ended up taking almost the whole day, but it was so awesome to go back if even just for a little bit. I got to see one of my favorite members again and spend the whole day with a crazy car driver. Seriously this guy is insane. He drives his diesel truck like its a motorcycle. He did so many illegal maneuvers and in the rain that i thought we were dead for sure. It was dark and rainy coming back and he just turned to us and said "hey can you guys see anything because i sure cant."

Now to go into my xfile theories about conference. For about the past month we have all been on the theory that the missionary time is going to be changed. We are at an all time high of waiting right now. So first off the president walks into a staff meeting the other day and asks one of the assistants how much time he had left. He said 6 months and then the president just said "i'm just doing some internal planning." Now we get to this morning. With the two missionaries who went home Saturday obviously changes are need to get them companions. Normally the assistants do the changes and president approves them and it takes an hour at most. This time though the assistants have done all the changes and president just keeps telling them to wait a couple more days and he will approve them. Now to top it all off Elder Neff just got an email of his friend who got his mission call and all it says for his assignment and time of services "more information will be given after the conference." Who knows if anything will happen, but now you have my theories.

This week seemed like it was really busy, but now writing it doesn't seem that busy. oh well.

Nos vemos en abril ;)

Elder Warburton

México Puebla Norte