- Mattie Stepanek
I am back in Reynosa, with a companion from Honduras, Elder Bueso.
This week, we worked just a few days together for some crazy changes that have passed this week. This is the last week of the Mexico Reynosa Mission, after this week it will no longer exist.
We are working with some investigators: Yaime, Manuel, Caroline, Guillermo, Natali, and Humberto.
Yaime is a young women, she is really cool and loves to talk with us. She is having a lot of problems with the Word of Wisdom, she is more of a liberal thinker, and it is making it hard for her to progress. She wants to be baptized, pray that she will be able to stop drinking and that she can be baptized.
Manuel is a really cool old man that comes to church by himself every week, he comes to all the activites as well!! We will be finishing up with him to try and baptize him this week!
Caroline, Guillermo and Natali are siblings. They love us as missionaries and they enjoy coming to church. We are working with their mom, she is a member but doesn't really have a strong desire to be active, she doesn't understand much of the church, she was baptized long ago but became an inactive. Pray that she will have a change of heart and will help her kids!!
Humberto is a reference from Temple Square. He was in Utah and visited the temple. Pray that his progression will continue!!
God really does work is mysterious ways. This last week I was thinking about the blessings tha God has given us during this time. Right now, the thing that everyone talks about is the World Cup. Even the people that don't play futbol watch the World Cup. When we went to Pizza Hut to eat this week, it was on. When we walk past homes, it is on. When we are walking in the streets, we hear screaming from in the house from the people watching. As we have been working, I thought about a quote from a movie that I saw years ago
Brock Kelley: So you think that God does care about football?
Grant Taylor: I think He cares about your faith. He cares about where your heart is. And if you can live your faith out on the football field then yes, God cares about football because He cares about you. He sent His son Jesus to die for us so we could live for Him. That's why we're here. But see, it's not just on the football field; we've got to honor Him in our relationships, our respect for authority, in the classroom, and when you're at home alone surfing the internet. I want God to bless this team so much that people talk about what He did. But it means we got to give Him our best in every area. If we win, we praise Him. And if we lose, we praise Him.Now that Mexico is winning in the World Cup, the people have invited us to food, to enjoy the games with them and we have had the chance to meet knew people to teach and have been able to find a common interest to break the ice when talking to people.
Since I was a little kid, I remember something that my parents told me. "The Lord created everything for His benefit, and Satan changes them for his benefit." Something along those lines. I feel that God is using this World Cup to help us find new people to teach and boosting our spirits with everyone that invites us to eat.
Love you all!!
Elder Corom Jones
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