My new area is HUGE!! and when I say huge, I mean it. My area is one of the 2 biggest areas in my mission. We do a lot of walking. There are days it takes us over an hour to reach our first lesson because it is on the other side of our area. I really am getting good at walking, believe it on not! My companion and I are getting along really, really well. We work really hard through the days and we help each other a lot to make the best of the work and even when it gets hard, we work to do the best we can.
So, the food here is Mexico is always spicy, which I love, don't get me wrong. But when they say something is spicy, oh boy is it spicy! This week we had a mission conference which lasted from the morning into the late afternoon and so, as usual, they fed us. I will say the tacos were amazing, but the heap of salsa that I put on it wasn't so much. To say the least, it hurt, going on and coming out, but that's the life of a missionary.
This week we are planning on a lot of things to do. A family that we have been teaching is getting all the work done to be a legal wedded family. One of the big problems out here in Mexico is that a lot of people live together but they aren't married. To be able to baptize these people, they need to be married or they need to live in separate homes. This week we are working with a family to get them married. We have to work on a ton of papers and they have to take a ton of tests so they can legally be married. We are hoping that they will come to church this week and the next and if they do we will have a baptism that night, which happens to be my brother's birthday. Happy Birthday Abram!
I have been reading Jesus the Christ for my personal study and really studying the importance of the life He led and how we can use that example as our example. Jesus Christ is so important to all of us. Without Him, we would not be who we are today, we would have no chance at anything but Hell. But as we turn to Christ and use Him in all of our dealing, He can change us, He can change out hearts and homes so we can be the best we can be with a change of heart. I have seen this with the family that I can teaching, they have problems with coffee and with being married, it's really expensive for the people here to be married, $1000 MXN, which is about $50 US. This family has nothing, their house tiny and they barely have the food to survive from week to week, but they show their faith by not drinking coffee and paying a lot to get married just so they can be baptized in our church.
This Gospel is the greatest blessing that I could have ever asked for. I love the feelings that I get when I share what the Gospel has done for me as I use it to change and enhance my life and the lives of the people here in Mexico. There is a feeling that comes with serving a mission that doesn't come at any other time or place in our lives. I am so glad I took this opportunity to serve and to come to love the people here in Mexico.
I know that our lives can change as we look to the Lord in everything that we are doing on our lives. I love the work that I am doing and I hope that all of you will find a way to become closer to the Lord everyday in your lives. None of us are perfect, we all make mistakes, but I know that with Christ, we can become perfected. Don't ever judge others of their decisions, even if they hurt you. As we constantly strive to become more like Christ we will know that what He would do is simply help them along the way. I love you all and hope you will serve and bring joy to someone else this week. -
- Until next week,
Elder Corom Jones
"When we withhold forgiveness from others we are in effect saying that the atonement alone was insufficient to pay for this sin. We are holding out for more. We are finding fault with the Lord's offering. We are in essence demanding that the Lord repent of an insufficient atonement. So when we fail to forgive another, it is as if we are failing to forgive the Lord - who, as you [know], needs no forgiveness." -James L Ferrell (The Peacegiver)
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