Week 39 - Another Week in Mexico (but no weekly email)

No weekly email from our boy, but found his face on the mission facebook page...

Week 38 - LECHE

Hello everyone! 

Ok so this week I had a lot of milk. My comp and I counted and I think I drank like 12 liters of milk. Which is a lot because we only eat at home in the morning and sometimes at night, but I usually only drink like 3 liters... anyway, sorry for that weird little life fact of mine haha.

Rain! Ok so it rained SUPER hard on Saturday! I would have recorded it, but that would have ruined my camera, lemme explain. So the street curbs here are like a foot and a half or 2 feet tall becuase during the rainy season (now) it floods. The first time it happened was Saturday. I literally was standing in water almost to my shins - we had to do it because we had a lesson.

People! We have someone progressing :) Her name is Jaqueline. We walked through a flood to get to her and God blessed us with an awesome person to teach! And then she came to church! I'll keep y'all updated.

I have been thinking a lot recently about what I want (in life, during the mission..) and have been kinda distracted recently. God is a good god so he sent an angel into my life. His name is Braden Verano (I think). We had a meeting and he is from a ward 45 minutes away. He is the ward mission leader and is only 20. His family basically disowned him because he got baptized and wants to go on a mission, but he still wants to go. We just started talking and he really helped me out. Something I really like that he said: "Sacrifice means everything. If you want a mansion (or some worthy desire), you must sacrifice everything to get it - family, friends, time, money. God will see that and give you that mansion, if He sees fit. The question is: What. Do. You. Want? And what are you willing to give up to have it?"

Where are our priorities? What do we want? What are we willing to give up to get it? Something to think about :)

Have a good week!

Elder Quist

Week 37 - It's a Learning Experience

Hey y'all!

So Elder Palomares left to Chalco and my new companion is Elder Santos. He is a cool guy. He has 20 months in the mission - 4 months left. So he is kinda lazy... but I still love him. He has a lot of experience and can teach me a lot. I'm senior companion though. I am still trying to figure that out. Like the title says, it's all a learning experience. Following along that thought, here are a couple things I've learned:

- You can't always make everyone happy.
- Smile when you make a mistake.
- Don't change your standards to make others happy.
- Above all else, put your trust in God.
- Some things take time, accept that. (Holland)
- Spend your money wisely.
- Have fun!
- Plan now; let God change them as you go along.
- Trust the Holy Ghost.
- A long prayer is worth it.
- Love your companion.
- Love the Lord.
- Love to work.
- Don't get down on yourself - Be positive.

Nothing incredible happened this week, but I hope it was incredible for you good people that read this. :) 

I love y'all. I miss y'all. Have a great week!

- Davis

My cool mosquito net

Week 36 - "Don't Worry, It'll Fit"

Hey all!

I have officially been in Mexico 250 days. Cool I guess haha. So I decided that this describes Mexico very well: "Don't worry, it'll fit" (when the taxi is full and the driver thinks 3 more people can fit, when the truck is full of stuff but they just use extra rope, when you say you can't fit more food inside of you and they take that to mean you don't like their food so you have to sacrifice and just EAT. MORE. FOOD).  

Ok so this week to finish up this cycle, we went on exchanges like 4 times with the other Elders in our district. It was a little frustrating to be outside of my own area so often but it was a good experience to be able to see how other Elders work and be able to help others in their labors.

This week we committed a couple people to baptism, BUT they didn't come to chruch so we will need to focus this next week on the importance of the Sabbath Day and the sacrament. I hope they can come next week. Pray for us por favor :) By the way, the reason I don't include many names of investigatos is because we have a lot and not mant progress, even those with a date for baptism. So if they ACTUALLY progress, I'll include them.

Quote from the week that I love from David O Mckay: "The purpose of the Gospel is to make bad men good and good men better - to change men's lives." If we understand that more clearly in our lives we will have SO MUCH MORE DESIRE to share this gospel with others.

Another quote: "Learning to live is learning to live simply."

I love y'all! Get a little closer to God this week :)

Elder Quist

More pictures from our hike last week - 

 Me and Elder Money