Hey everyone! so my second week in Moroleon has been quite the rollercoaster, from intense hurricanes to almost having a baptism out of the blue and also taking the wrong bus and getting lost, its been quite interesting haha. Last Monday was great because we got to have a family home evening with some investigators and a family from the ward. the members here are awesome because we are always doing tons of family home evenings and the members really try to fellowship our investigators! the family home evening on Monday was extra awesome because the son of the member family is an ex missionary, and he taught the whole lesson haha, that sure felt different, and they gave us hot dogs after so that was a plus! On Tuesday after the district meetings the first counselor in the stake presidency talked to the whole zone and he just fired us up to baptize here! and also told us how important it is to be obedient. i especially liked that part because us as leaders in the mission are always talking about obedience but the missionaries usually never listen to us, but when a member says it, its so much better haha. also i dont know if i have mentioned this before, but when you open area most of the miracles happen when you are completely lost haha, because on Tuesday we were just walking in who knows what part of our town, and a lady yelled at us across from the street "elders your not even gonna say hi?" well that lady is a member haha, and we put an appointment to come back and visit them on Thursday(remember this story). Wednesday was great for two reasons, first is that for lunch the members gave us tacos al pastor(my favorite food down here) and second because we had another family home evening that night with the bishop! after the family home evening got over they gave us hot chocolate and cake! but the family home evening got over pretty late and we had to bookie out of the bishops house, the good thing is that we live just a block from his house haha, so the bishop has been a huge help to us lately in getting to know moroleon and everything else we need! Thursday is when the hurricane hit, well i shouldn't say the hurrican hit here, but it hit another place in mexico and that made it a huge messy and really windy rain storm. we had an appointment with an investigator at 2 but didn't show up till 3 since we were so lost and it didn't help that we had to wait for a member so he could take us since the rain wasn't gonna let us walk in the streets(im not exaggerating, the rain wasn't coming from above, it was coming right at you haha). that was awesome though since the investigator fed us lunch(food is always great down here). now heres the part about the baptism out of the blue. remember the lady that yelled at us on Tuesday? yeah well we found out that the lady who yelled at us is 17 years old and active in the church, but her 12 year old sister isn't a member, so after talking to her for a bit we asked her when she wanted to be baptized, and she said Saturday haha. the member that was with us got really wide eyed(hes not use to people saying yes to being baptized either haha). sadly that baptism fell through because weve had some problems with the parents there, the mom isnt a member, and the dad is inactive and pretty much hates the church, but were gonna see what we can do! Friday we were still having to deal with the hurricane, but it would come and go, so we just would walk to our appointments when it stopped raining, and when it started we would wait in a corner store or a mechanic shop or someones garage, whatever would protect us haha. Saturday was awesome as well because we visited our star investigator Jesus. i dont know if i told you this but we found him just calling old investigators we had registered in the phone and he said that we had called "at the perfect time" every time we leave his house after teaching him, just makes me and my companion both think that its for people like him why we are in the mission. he has had alot of problems and addictions in his life, but he is leaving it all behind and wants to follow god know and give himself to god, so hes our favorite. And Sunday i got quite the surprise, because one of my favorite families from my old area in morelia showed up to our church! so it was great to talk to them, they all commented on how skinny ive gotten haha. and Sunday was a packed day with appointment after appointment teaching investigators. we got home last night tired as dogs but happy as could be! today we played pool for 2 hours since theres not a whole lot to do here haha, i think im gonna get pretty good before i go home! thats a good thing too because i need the practice as rusty as i am. Well i hope you all have a great week and i just want you all to know that God loves each and every one of you! Hes just a prayer away if you ever need to talk to him. the work here is going great and this week if all goes well we will be having 2 baptisms!! i love this area and i love this work! Thanks for all that you do everyone for your love and support! have a great one! Love Elder Griffin
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