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Friday, January 26, 2018

This week was a really rough week with a lot of ups and downs as well.

We had a great afternoon last week.  We looked for some inactive members for a while and then we visited some recent converts.  It was a pretty normal day.

We continued working this week with the members.  Every single day we had at least one member of the ward accompany us to at least one lesson. It was great and honestly we saw great reactions from the investigators.  They respond a little bit more to the experiences of someone that has gone through Missionary Lessons to get baptized and that has a full life of experiences.  There is honestly a lot of power when there is a member present in the lesson that you can't find without them.  It adds a third, and even more convincing witness, to the truth of the things that we are teaching.  And it is also the best way to find new people to teach because the members are often very respectable and so when they introduce us to their neighbors the people seem to accept us better.

Once again I got to the bus station late for the trip to Tampico for the Leadership council.  It was horrible to go late AGAIN.  I have no Idea how that has happened twice now.  I think I am going to be better in getting there early from now on.  I have already made a lot of changes this week to avoid similar situations. But it was kind of unique to be alone for 4 and a half hours that day.  It did give me a good chance to talk to the people sitting next to me and some of them were very receptive to the message.

Nobody went to church again. Saturday night we had 3 families that had told us that they were going to go to church, but come Sunday morning nobody showed up and nobody answered their phones.  This time we went with one of the families in the afternoon and they told us that their sister in law fought with her brother and then left with the kids so they had to take care of that.  Something always happens like that.  A few weeks ago the investigators that were going to go to church had their washing machine explode Sunday morning.  And if it's not that then somebody has to be throwing up or in the hospital.  Who knows why but its giving me a lot more patience.

That is our little stand that we put in the flee market
close to our house.We gave away a ton of stuff there.
We are still teaching the same families.  The Family of Zenia is starting to do their commitments a bit.  The Hernandez family doesn't drink any more and Brother Hernandez is still reading the book of Mormon.  Antonio and Laura that I told you about a few months ago stopped smoking but haven't done anything else.  The thing that makes me most happy is that I know that every step forward is one step closer to covenants with God.  At least there is a little bit of progress, even if not that much. 

I hope that this week we can have a great spiritual experience with one of those families or somebody else at least that can help these people to come closer to God and to be better than they were before.  I hope to see someone in the church building next week.

I also learned another great lesson this week.  God will always work through imperfect servants even though this work is so important.  Sunday we got to church and started getting everything ready and guess what.  There were no sacrament cups.  So we started church 20 minutes late and the sacrament was still not ready and the cups weren't even there when we started.  It made me appreciate more that we, as imperfect mortals, will always be able to do a good enough job for God.  The only job that He had for us to do that had to be done perfectly was accomplished but the only One that was perfect.  He doesn't hope that imperfect people do a perfect job, He just expects the best that we can give.  I am so grateful to Christ who makes up the difference. There is no undone job that will stay unaccomplished at the end of everything. There is no broken heart that will not be healed and no tear of sorrow that will not be made up by 100 tears of joy.  I know that if we do the bet we can everyday to do what He asks of us it will always be enough.

Thank you for everything. Keep working hard and apply the Atonement of Jesus Christ in your lives everyday and it will all be better

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I love you. 
Elder Brady Allred

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