Lexie - July 28, 2014

Wooo 5 weeks done in mexico! How crazy. This week I finally got some courage and contacted a bunch in the streets so we had a lot of new people to visit. My companion and I got to sing at 2 different baptisms this week. One for a convert of the elders in our Ward and one for an 8 year old that is in the Ward already. Goodness it´s been a long time since I´ve seen a baptism, it´s crazy the spirit that fills the room. Honestly if anyone is ever wondering if this church is true, attend a baptism. i can´t even explain what an amazing feeling it is. We started teaching three boys this week who are 8,12, and 15. There dad is a member and found us walking one day. He´s been inactive for a long time but said he knows the church is true and wants to come back and make sure his sons learn about it. He is really great. He was awesome about telling his kids that this was thier choice. If they want to be baptized that´s awesome and if they don´t feel it´s right for them that´s ok too. It´s cool to see a parent let their kids use their agency. Not going to lie. These kids are beautiful. And I feel totally fine saying that because they are 8 12 and 15 but oh my gosh I have never seen such beautiful people lol they belong on a magazine. They have the most insane awesome eyes i´ve ever seen. Anyways they came to an activity, a baptism, and church this week. So I´m excited for our next lesson with them! I have a new boyfriend (sorry to tyrel lol) but no worries he´s 2 and his name is Isac. Oh my gosh he is wonderful lol. He belongs to the family that we´re baptizing here in 2 weeks I believe. He knows my name it´s the best thing ever. His mom tells me that when we´re gone he talks about how he likes hermana baers eyes and her hair. How funny lol. The coolest thing that I think I´ve realized this week is that a missionary isn´t a salesman. I think that I was really worried about that before the misión. That I was going to be shoving information into people and I didn´t want to feel that way. But tha´t´s totally not how missionary work is. I love that in the scriptures it says that are many different churches that all say they are right. That´s true, I´´m, pretty sure everyone that participates in any religión believes to some extent that it´s true. The cool thing with missionary work is we´re not asking them to believe us. We´re asking them to ask God. He´s the only one that really knows. People are baptized not because they believe what the missionaries are saying but because they believe in what God tells them in their prayers. I have loved watching this. I´ve realy watched people change their lives in the last 5 weeks and it just gets better every week as I understand more and more! Oh I also had my second english class this week! It went very well, there were 3 investigators there and a member family came also. I´m excited to teach again on Tuesday! I hope everyone is doing great! Love you!