Good morning!
President Slaughter is getting creative with missionary assignments again. He has the standard 2 Assistants that represent him to us when he's busy elsewhere, and people had a lot of good experiences with the Assistants. So he called at one point 8 assistants. He then realized that they were taking the jobs of District and Zone Leaders. So he then just had one extra pair of assistants that every day did exchanges and focused on teaching missionaries Spanish. That rendered the same effects. So now, he's called 4 Area Leaders (if you relate it to actual church organization they'd act as area 70's) and focus on Spanish training and zone leader training. So Elder Larsen and Elder Hilario came with us on tuesday. We started by working in the community food pantry and we helped the Spanish speakers fill their carts with groceries. That was fun.
Wednesday I worked with Elder Hopkins.
Thursday we got a few things ready for MLC and did a family home evening with the Narvaez family. We taught her daughter Gabby who dropped out of high school and is preparing to have a baby and her boy friend miguel who's finishing up his senior year. We probably could have picked a better location for the lesson because Gabby's mom was really getting after her the whole time, so it was kind of an ineffective meeting. Hopefully we can get some friends for them in the ward that will help them open up.
Friday we drove down to San Antonio and met with president slaughter and the other zone leaders. I learned a lot about discernment. We practiced teaching big groups.
The biggest progress we saw this week was in Miguel. He's about 60 years old, started working when he was young and hasn't really stopped since. When we met him he said he believed in God but didn't really know anything more. Since then he's started praying out loud every day, and reading from the scriptures. He wants to know more, but he's very hesitant to make any commitments with God. We haven't found out why yet. It's been great to meet with him without his wife this last week, because she keeps making comments about he doesn't know anything about God, and he'll just agree with her to get out of having to try something new.
When he does try something new, and exercises his faith. He recognizes the answers, and gets excited, because he's coming to know his God.
I love you!
Stay Salty!
Elder Tyler Meidell
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