You may notice a discrepancy in the letter date and the actual posting date. That would be thanks to Elder Kennington's mom getting a job at BYU and the blog taking a backseat. Thank goodness for repentance, however, as we catch you up on our now-returned missionary's Mexican adventures. Stay tuned!
These last two weeks have turned out to be pretty rough. We have really struggled with finding people and bringing them to church. Though we were able to get into a lot of houses for the first time, coming back again and getting these investigators progressing has proven to be very hard.
The Holy Week here destroyed a lot of the work that we were doing as well. Even in the ward... Less than half of the normal active families came to church last Sunday, so you can imagine what happened with the investigators... :)
I have been thinking and praying and fasting a lot to try and figure out what is going on and what we need to fix about how we are working. I am doing my best to work hard, love the people, and to be 100% obedient, but if you aren't working right there is no way that baptizing every week will be made possible. I have faith that the Lord puts prepared people in my path so I can help them to make covenants with Him. I have seen it time and time again in my mission.
I feel like what we lack is better work with members. We still don't have a ward mission leader, nor any active ward missionaries, and I believe that our work with the ward is suffering because of it. This week we are going to be focusing and giving seguimiento to the calling of a new ward mission leader and hopefully getting some new ward missionaries. What Elder Fjerstad and I did in Haciendas really worked, where the bishop called a bunch of recent converts as ward missionaries and then we had weekly capacitations with them. The members here in the ward all have the desire to share the gospel. The vast majority of the members of the church do. All we need to do is help them realize this desire.
Elder Lara and I are doing ok. We struggle a little in our companionship unity still. While we never argue or fight we don't exactly get along either. :) We will simply be practicing lots of respect, charity, and understanding/communication over the course of the next little while.
I think that about wraps it up for this last week. We are working hard and doing our best, though currently we don't have fruits to show for it. Hoping and praying that bettering our work with the ward will bring us the baptisms that we are looking for.
Love,
Elder Kennington
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