Well everything is going well down here in good ol' Oaxaca. What a blessing it is to be a missionary in these last days!! What an amazing blessing it is to also be members of this true church in the last days!! As so many of the prophets have taught us in this last dispensation, we are ALL missionaries!! I absolutely love reading books about the church, which is weird because I hated reading before my mission. But, I've been reading a lot of books about the church history and it's truly touched my heart. All of the sacrifices that the amazing saints have made over the past years so that we can be where we are right now!! WE ARE TRULY BLESSED!!!!
Anyways, we had quite an awesome crazy week here is Oaxaca!! To start it off, I got super sick on Wednesday and Thursday and could barely walk to some of our appointments. It was a lot of fun, not. But as we say here, no pasa nada!! We had an awesome Home Evening with my favorite family here in our ward on Thursday and we got to watch Ephraim's Rescue - an amazing example of the sacrifices that those awesome pioneers made so we can be where we are today!! Watching movies and videos of the pioneers and our amazing ancestors truly brings such a special spirit and I can't even begin to tell you all how grateful I am for the sacrifices that they made for us!!
To end the week, we had the baptism of Sister Jaquelin. It was so dang awesome!! It was such a blessing to be apart of her baptism. It's so amazing to see what happens when people follow the teachings of Jesus Christ. He does truly change their lives!! She started out as a dang hard investigator to teach and to talk to. And now as we finished teaching her and got closer to her baptism, she is great. She invited us to eat lunch with her and asked members to watch her kids for her and we truly have seen such a change in her!! Clearly all of us still have A LOT of work to do, but what a blessing it is to see changes in people's lives when they apply the teachings of Jesus Christ!!
We are so blessed in these last days to be members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints!! My love for the gospel is so strong, even though it doesn't seem like the mission gets any easier and sometimes we get quite the companions, but it's such a blessing to be serving a mission in Oaxaca!!
I had the chance to give a talk on Sunday and thinking about the first talk I gave in the mission, I basically had to write it out word for word with the help of my companion. Yesterday, I was able to give about a 10 minute talk in Spanish. As we continue to do what's right (which I know we all fall short sometimes, I fall short ALL the time), I know that Heavenly Father will bless us!! I have seen his hand in my life so dang many times in the last 9 months that I can't even count them! I know that He lives and that He loves each and everyone of us and that's why He sent His son so that we can and will be forgiven of our sins!! I hope you all have such an amazing week and continue to grow in your testimonies!! I love you all so dang much!!!!
ELDER BLAKE
My birthday presents - 2 months early (yes, he opened them all)!
Over 80,000 teachers were on strike here. It was INSANE!
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