Slow and Go

 The dogs love me

 Makin´it rain with that mensualidad. Dont be impressed, it's less than $150 in the U.S.

 District bus ride

Elder Morales, Elder Reyes, y Yo chillin in Costco

 

Hey everybody! Hope all is going well! So nothing exciting this week. We had a few rule changes on Wednesday and now we can be out later teaching investigators which is nice. This week Elder Morales and I looked for new people to teach and we found an awesome family that lives on the edge of our area. They are way into our lessons and they said they want to be members and we´re stoked. Only thing we have to do before that is get them married... Easy right? Haha we´ll see how that goes in these upcoming weeks. Also this week we went to a lot of less or inactive members because we have A TON of them here. And it was good to see 5 of them come to church this week. Hopefully they continue to come. We´re trying to reactivate members in hopes that one will be called to be bishop because the ward is really struggling without one. I´d like to see if we can get a bishop here before the next change but who knows. Nothing else too exciting happened this week. We lost our keys one night and look for them for an hour. I´m stupid and they we´re in my bag the whole time. "Buen hecho Elder Fillmore" -Mi compañero. jaja. But yeah hopefully with these new rules we can teach more investigators this week and get perhaps get them to come to church.

Thanks everyone for the love and support! I love you all! Have a great week!

Elder Fillmore

Sorry...

Hey everybody! Sorry for no letter last week. We we´re helping a member move last week and we were there from 11 to 7. And sorry for this week because we are short on time so don't expect much this week. Next week should be back to normal though!

So these past two weeks we have found a handful of new investigators and 2 new families to teach and we´re way excited to teach them! We had stake conference this past week and we we´re excited because we though they would finally call a bishop for our ward. But lo and behold, Laureles is still Bishopless and has been for over a year now.

But yeah, everything is going here. I love it here in Celaya and the people are super nice for the most part. The dogs on the other hand are a different story. One chased us from the store to our house and just about ate us. Luckily we were able to fight it off. That´s not true. I think our high pitched screams hurt its ears and scared it off. But yeah other than that its great here.

Thanks everyone for the prayers. I miss you all and hope everyone is doing great!!

Elder Fillmore

 

*Jan 16th to his mom

Mission life is great. It´s tough here in Laureles. No members want to help us and nobody wants to listen to us. But we keep trying. No more lockdowns this week thankfully but we have permission to go home whenever we don't feel safe. Thankfully we haven't had that feeling yet. We did go to Queretaro this week! Osvasldo, one of my old investigators was baptised Saturday and invited us and President said we could go! It was awesome! And I got to see Elder Tovar again before he left. He left today in the morning. But yeah it was great to go to that and see my "hometown" Stoked for Blake and super jealous that hes playing volleyball right now. That´s so awesome that they're doing really well. Let me know how he does! I love you so much mom! I miss you and everyone back home a lot but I know everyon is doing great and I´ll see you all soon enough. Have a great week and I hope you do great in School! I love you mom!!!

Lockdown

Hey everyone! Super busy week and also super weird week. so first off we found our investigator who quit drinking last week in the street one night and he had relapsed. He said he was sorry and told us he was going to pray. So he got down in the middle of the street on his knees and started praying. From a different point of view it would've seemed as if he was worshipping us. We´re trying to help him get better but it seems like every other day he goes back to his alcohol.

On the good side we found a new family to teach this week and we´re teraching the parents, the grandma, and they have 4 kids! They seem really interested and I´m excited to see how it goes this week! 

So Thursday night we got a text saying that we all had to be in our houses before 7. Why? who knows. But we did as were told and usually when we get home at 9 we have a lot of extra time before we go to bed. But when we get home at 7... yeah, long night of nothing. I can now solve a Rubiks Cube now after that, haha. The next morning we got another text saying we still weren't allowed to leave. So we were in the house until about 3 that day before we finally got approval to leave. Not entirely sure why still but we have a few ideas from things we´ve heard from other missionaries and members. Crazy stuff happening in Mexico.

Other highlites from the week include eating pig head and getting invited next week by the same people who gave us the pig head to eat cow intestines and crickets. Yeah. Lets just say i hope we do divisions that day and I have the pleasure of missing that meal.

I´m doing great here though and I love it! Thanks for prayers! I hope everyone is doing great back home! I miss you all! Have a great week!

Con amor,

Elder Fillmore

 

 Dia de Reyes with the district

 When you cant leave the house to get food so you order Pizza Hut

Feliz Año Nuevo!

Hope everyone had a great new years! Nothing new here. Super slow week. The people here dont need a reason to party so when there actually is a holiday or some valid reason to party, they go nuts. Fireworks and loud music all week long and the occasional drunk person who offered us beer. And every time we pass a party there is always someone, without fail, who yells "hey wero!" I love it. And the parties will continue this week because they celbrate dia de los reyes here so we get that to look forward to.

This week one of our investigators moved to Queretaro so we have to pass that reference:/ I hope i can teach them again someday if I go back! We also got one of our investigators to quit smoking and drinking this week! He´s doing great now and he already seems happier! Nothing else really new here.

Thank you everyone for the love and support! I love you all!

Con amor,

Elder Fillmore

*This week was slow. Everyone is partying and its hard to teach people when that's going on. New years was uneventful here. Just music and fireworks ALL. NIGHT. LONG. but yeah nothing else.

Hope Blake's birthday went well!

Elder Morales got mad at me because I drink too much milk or something? Well I'm sorry. If we had coke or water, maybe this wouldn't be a problem. lol!

I love you mom!! I´m doing great! Have a great week!<3

*personal email from Ethan I want to include