Here in Nuevo Laredo we are killing it!!! Elder Diaz and I have
been working hard and having fun! This week was actually a pretty tiring week
but we saw the fruits of our labors on Saturday when Coral and Dulce got
baptized! It was so awesome!! They were super excited and nervous at the same
time but they were so ready. After the baptism we were talking with
Agripina, their grandma, and she asked us when she could be baptized. It was
such an awesome experience and the Spirit was so strong!
The rest of the week was a great and busy week with a lot of
things to do. We started out with Divisions with the APs, Elder Garrido and
Elder Riches which was super fun! They are awesome guys and we are all pretty
good friends so it went really well. We got a lot done that day and we
partied in the night with some Dominos Pizza and some great convos! Then on
Thursday we had interviews with President which was pretty good as always.
Afterwards Elder Diaz and I went out to Anahuac to do divisions with Elder
Ramos y Elder Ramirez. It was like an hour and a half away in bus, good times.
We did some work out there for a while and had a pretty solid time. The only
bad part is that we had to sleep on the tile floor because they don' t have
extra mattresses. That was rough because we got no sleep at all
jaja.
The craziest day was Friday! It was Dia de Muertos and let's
just say it was super weird! The first thing is that there was a gun fight
between the marines and the narcos right by us while we were teaching a lesson.
The second is just a little bit crazier jajaj. There is a group here that
worship la santa muerte something like unto a female grim reaper and so not a
true saint. We passed by a party for la santa and there was a narco truck
with like 4 armed dudes paying their repsects jajaja. It was probably the
craziest thing I have seen in my mission jaja.
The last thing I'd like to share is a short and sweet scripture from 2 Nefi chapter 5.
"27 And it came to pass that we lived after the manner
of happiness."
So I was reading a talk from Elder Jeffery R Holland this
past week that talked about happiness. He says that we should always look
for happiness even in the most difficult moments. We can use Nefi and his
example from the scripture above. His life was not the
easiest...actually it was pretty hard but he says that they "lived
after a manner of happiness" so yeah thats my advice for y'all - BE
HAPPY and live happily despite your circumstances.
well I got to go!
les amo y les extraño
con amor
elder mcclellan
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