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Sunday, November 5, 2017

I think that I have about 62 weeks now.  Something like that. Maybe more maybe less.  But yep I made it to 14 months.  Now is the time in the mission when everything should be about 2nd nature.  And it's getting there and I'm starting to enjoy it more.

This weeks was really crazy.  We went to Tampico on Tuesday for a Mission training and then on Wednesday we had the rest of the training and came back in the evening.  So that's a lot of traveling, especially for us because we usually don't travel more than about 5 or 6 kilometers every day, and we went three and a half hours two days in a row.  But it was worth it and I learned a lot about how to be a better missionary and I saw a bit more the vision that President Ramirez has for the Mission.

Then on Thursday we had Zone Conference and interviews with President.  It was really great and a very worthwhile experience.  I hope to keep putting in pracitce everything that I learned.

Friday we planned in the morning for this week and we actually set goals from here to the end of the year.  That was a great spiritual experience.  We prayed a lot and put very high but achievable goals.  And we are now working like crazy to achieve them.  And I think that we should be able to do it.

Saturday we went with a few young women investigators that we have.  They are great and we are trying to make sure that they are interested in the gospel and not in us.  But that is why we leave the pamphlets and the Book of Mormon and other commitments, because usually if they do those things then they are looking for God in their lives.  But it's a little weird to teach young adult women that are our age.

Yesterday we had two really great experiences with two families.  The first one was with Gerardo.  A new investigator that we found about a week ago.  He has a great past and is a very smart and questioning person.  So this type of person is my favorite type of person to teach.  Somebody that has very well developed questions and understands when you explain it.  You don't have to simplify as much with them.  So he asked a few questions about why the Lamanites had to be colored.  We told him that it was a way that God could show Nephi's descendants who are the good people and the bad people, and that the skin color could change based upon obedience.  His other question was about evolution.  We told him that God created man, and everything else, but that He hasn't actually told us how.  We read 2 Nephi 2:27 and told him that God has given us everything we need to be able to make right decisions, the decision between the great Mediator of all men or captivity and death by the power of the devil.  We told him that HOW God created us is not going to influence our decisions about right and wrong as much as a testimony that God did create us.  If God created us is going to affect us a whole lot more than worrying about HOW God created us. And he was honestly very convinced that he doesn't have to know exactly how.  It was super cool and super spiritual and he told us that after many years of doubts, specifically those two, he feels that now is the time that he has been waiting for to change his life.  So next time we see him we are going to put a baptismal date.  We're super duper excited.

The other great experience yesterday was with Rocio and Hector (Rocio is a very beautiful name, it means dew in Spanish.  It's pronounced Row-SEA-o).  They go to a Christian church, and told us that they are rather happy there.  We asked how their family is (it was a question given us directly from heaven) and it is honestly not up to par.  They have a lot of problems between them.  So we told them that we have a unique way to help them.  We taught them about prophets, and then we showed them the family Proclamation for the World.  The spirit filled the room as we talked about their family and how these direct counsels from God can change their lives.

I said, "Wait a second! How do you feel right now in this moment?" 

They said, "Really peaceful."  

We read Galatians 5:22-23.  The fruit of the spirit is love...peace...tranquility.

"Is that what you feel right now?"

"Well...yeah?"

"That's the spirit.  How would you like to always feel that way?"

They said It would be great but it is really hard to feel that way at work.  It's a warehouse and the people are sometimes a little cranky, they complain, they fight, it's not a peaceful place.

I told them, "Guess what.  I worked in a warehouse and I was able to feel peace.  The prophets have taught a way that we can always have peace and ALWAYS feel the spirit." 

So we explained the doctrine of Christ.  Faith, Repentance, Baptism, and then the glorious gift of the Holy Ghost, or in other words, constant peace. Hector said that if the Family Proclamation is really written by prophets then he will get baptized.  Rocio said that she'll think about it.  It was super spiritual and a really great experience. I think that they are going to get baptized very soon as well.

I love you so much and I am so grateful for the opportunity that you are giving me to be on a mission. It is life changing and a great experience.  It's hard, but worth every thing.

I love you
Elder Brady Allred

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