Homeward Bound

This last week went by really fast, wow.

Honestly my mind is all over the place, so i don't really remember what happened. 

We worked pretty normal. We bought lots of food so i could eat everything one last time before going home. The sisters bought me pizza two times during the week. One time after the district council and then again on Saturday, so that was fun.

I think packing was probably the hardest part. Don't worry though i got lots of cool stuff and i'm leaving behind almost everything i brought with me. Basically only taking home scriptures and a bunch of souvenirs (no idea how to spell that now).

On Sunday i got told by two drunk guys that they were going to kill me, so i think that's a sign that i ended good. We also had a devotional with some of our converts, so it was good to see them all again. 

Today we just went to the center and hung out talking about the good times we had all together in the ccm

Tomorrow we go to Cholula and Wednesday morning we fly home.

If I've learned one thing on my mission its that happiness only comes through the Gospel of Jesus Christ. It's so easy that sometimes we forget it. The Book of Mormon is true. We have a prophet that walks the earth today. Joseph Smith did in fact see God the Father and his Son, Jesus Christ. and most importantly Jesus is the Christ, our savior and redeemer and it has been an honor to wear his name on my chest and represent him for two years.

Sorry that after two years of letters we are ending on a short note, but ni modo. 

My homecoming will be this Sunday (the 29th) at 9am in the church above BHS. Carnitas will be served after.

Adios for 2 more days

Elder Warburton

Elder Warburton

  México Puebla Norte

 District selfie

The best tacos money can buy

Second to last torta de tamal (i had one today too)

With the legend Sandra

In the center 

Everybody eating Carl's junior

¡Viva México!

We started the week out going to visit some people with a member who went around with us for about an hour and a half. We didn't find anybody and almost everybody told us they didn't have time, but it was super good to finally work with a member here.

On Tuesday night we had our correlation meeting. We don't have a ward mission leader or anyone in the elders quorum who is in charge, so just the elders quorum president showed up. Then he tried to get mad at us saying "is this meeting even important for you guys" and i was just shaking my head the whole time. Then his family was supposed to feed us on Saturday, but he never answered his phone and he wasn't home when we went to look for him, so you could say things in the ward have hit rock bottom. In a month we have lost about 20 people in sacrament meeting. There's not a whole lot we can do to help when we are only two and nobody wants to do anything, but i guess we will just keep trying. 

On Wednesday we did an attack in the area of the sisters and we found some people for them and it went good. Then we went back to our area and ended up in the middle of nowhere and we found a lady crying on the edge of this canyon thing with her daughter and we contacted them and who knows what was going on, but we gave them hope. She couldn't really explain to us where she lived, but she gave us her number. Who knows if anything will come out of it, but its good to know that the Lord leads us to where we need to be to help his children.

Then later that night we went to look for a lady the other missionaries were teaching and she received us really good, but then literally started to attack us 10 minutes in saying that we are fanatics who worship Joseph Smith. I'm an expert with these types of situations, so i explained to her what we believe and bore my testimony. And then she mad a critical error. It says in Preach my Gospel that its hard for the people to put in doubt your testimony. Well that is what she tried to do. She tried to tell me that my testimony wasn't real and that God has never answered me. So, she preceded to tell me what she believed was the truth and i probably made a mistake here, but she made me mad, so i taught her using her bible that she was 100% wrong and at the point where she was left with nothing to say, we left. 

There is a widowed returned missionary here who honestly could be the bishop because she works so hard to minister and work with us and we had a family night with her and it went good. She invited her elderly neighbor to come and we just shared a simple message, but the sister was just happy that she got to participate in missionary work. 

We were contacting in the street and a lady came up yelling "nobody wants to listen to you guy" and i though oh no here we go again, but turns out she was ¿joking? i think and then just told us that she likes to listen to every church there is to learn and we explained the restoration very basically and she was getting super pumped writing down everything we said and after she asked for every folleto we had and then she disappeared with our phone number.

September 15th is mexico's independence day and on Friday the stake had its big party. We couldn't go so that was a bummer :( but we bought tacos instead and ate them in our house. On Saturday my comp bought a tamale in the street and got super sick. Pobrecito just needs to buy a couple more and nothing will do him harm.

On Saturday i got a call from one of the companionships of sisters here from a random number saying that they got robbed. We saw them a little later in the stake center and they told us the whole story. 2 people pulled up in a taxi and one got out and stuck a gun to the stomach of one of the sisters and asked for all they had. The sister that had the gun to her stomach gave him her backpack with her wallet, ids, money, camera, and cell phone and the other sister was so nervous that she couldn't unbuckle her bag to give it to him. Luckily they were both fine in the end.

And to top it all off some guy who was high out of his mind sat next to me on the bus yesterday and showed me his fireworks and kept giving me chicharon.

Well that's about it. If you've always wanted to write me and have kept putting it off well you have one more week.

Adios

Elder Warburton

 Happy mexico day

A nice view from the middle of nowhere

A day in the Life

I don't have notes for this week, so ill try to remember it all.

On Monday we had a baptismal interview that fell through, so that took up basically all of our time that afternoon.

On Tuesday it rained super hard, but we hid out inside of a store and i bought mac and cheese (only available at select Boudea Aurreras). Then we went to the stake center to help teach English and it went good.

On Wednesday we had interviews with president and they went good. The zone leaders told us the night before we had to be there 15 minutes before our interviews (for us 11), then at 9 i get a call from the zone leader losing his mind telling me that we had to be there at 9 and why weren't we there and where was everybody. So, we get there at 9:30 and we waited until 12:30 to have our interview. Why did we have to be there at 9? that is a mystery that will hopefully be revealed in the millennium. After some members took us to a restaurant to eat some carnitas, so that was cool.

On Thursday we had interchanges and i was in my area and it went good. We contacted almost the whole time and we found a family of four that could have promise. I was with the other zone leader that i don't verify with that has 9 months in the mission. He showed up and he said "well i think you know more than i do and you already know Spanish, sooooo." I think he had no idea what to do hahaha. It was all good though and we had fun. Then that night he bought pizza, so that was cool.

On Friday i can't remember what happened other than we visited a family that we had found a little bit ago and we read the introduction of the Book of Mormon with them and then we had another lesson with a lady we have been teaching and she might have finally realized the importance of finding the true church. She had read in mateo about Jesus cursing the fig tree and didn't know what it meant, so we explained it all to her and then she was like "wait are your leaders like the leaders of some church that will not be named that's leader just got put into prison" so we explained to her how awesome President Nelson is.

On Saturday we contacted a bunch and my comp wasn't paying attention and walked into a guy riding his bike and we got a good laugh out of it. 

Yesterday we gave a blessing to a member who really wanted one because she said she is going through a bunch of hard things and it was a really cool experience. 

I think that's the first time i've given a run down of every day. 

Adios 

Elder Warburton

also i didn't take pictures this week, so go and watch the Book of Mormon videos trailer instead.

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Elder Warburton

  México Puebla Norte

Book of Mormon Videos | Official Trailer | 1 Nephi - YouTube

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Da semana

This week went by really fast and then really slow.

On Tuesday we had zone conference. It was good, but weird thinking that its my last zone conference. I got some good pictures with some homies (hna barron included). It was a good conference though. President talked about sacrificing and remembering the feeling we had when we opened our mission calls. Also Monday night, the night before the conference, i got told that i was going to be capacitating(training) with one of my zone leaders about the area plan. In the mission there are 4 priorities and one of them is the area plan. So, in the conference all of the missionaries decided in what priority they wanted to focus in and only 2 sisters form my district wanted to focus in the area plan. So, luckily it wasn't too stressful not having prepared anything.

We also started giving English classes in the stake center as a district, so i think they will go pretty good because we will be able to invite lots of people and its closer to our area than our church.

We also had intercambios this week and i was with my favorite Brazilian. It was fun, we contacted a bunch and at the end bought tacos. Then the next day the bad news hit. They called Elder Backman in my district and told him that he was going to have emergency changes. Then he called the assistants later that night and they told him that they are going to open the new zone (my old area) so, him and Elder Nacimento were going to get transferred to my old area to help open the new zone. We helped them pack everything and clean their house because they were told they were closing area only a couple hours in advance. It was pretty sad when they left because now we are alone covering a huge area and we have to travel all over the place to eat with and visit members. They left Friday afternoon and that night we had to cover one of their family home evenings. It was supposed to start at 7, but everyone showed up at 8, so we could only share a lesson for like 10 minutes then we had to leave super fast to get back to our area.

We also had some really good enchiladas on Saturday, so i think that is worth mentioning. And on Sunday we had stake conference and it was actually really good. All of us missionaries and the president were outside greeting people as they came in and one lady was pushing somebody in a walker and they both fell over and it was like an army of missionaries ran up to help them. In the end they were ok.

That's about it for this week. Oh we keep contacting tons of people, but nobody wants anything and the zone leaders only care about numbers, but don't help at all so that's cool.

Have a good week

Elder Warburton

  

Elder Warburton

  México Puebla Norte

 Seconds before they left

A fruit called Vaina that is basically cotton candy, but fruit. super cool

Snacking on grasshoppers

With the boss

With one of my best buds