Lider de Distrito

Hey everyone! This week was a great one but do to transfers today and the traveling I dont have a ton of time. So last week we passed Olimpia off as a reference but she wanted us to keep teaching her so we got permission and we continued with the lessons and she gort baptized saturday!!!! Such and awesome experience!

We got changes yesterday and I´ve been called to Salamanca! I took a bus for two hours to Irapuato and then another bus for one hour to Salamanca. It´s like celaya but smaller. And it smells awful because of all the gas companies here. I´m also District leader now! Excited to work here in the new area with my new comp, Elder Wierna. He´s from Argentina and has about 6 months in the mission as well. Should be a great time here. 

Thanks for all the support! Love you all! 

Elder Fillmore

Week of Tracting

 The call me the cat whisperer

 Me goofing around in the Catholic church

Me, Elder Reyes, Elder Marshall, and Elder Morales feasting

Hey everyone! All is well here in the good´ole México. This week was very busy with tracting and we contacted a ton of people. Since we dumped a lot of our old investigators, we´ve been searching for new ones and there have been a few days when we have no lessons planned so we just go and knock doors ALL DAY LONG. I love it. We get to meet a whole bunc of people. Some super old and cranky. Some Catholic that tell us we´re going to hell. Some drunk and invite us to drink with them. But every once and a while we find someone who actually is normal and wants to listen to us and we get to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ with them and it´s so worth it when we find that one. This week we were blessed to find 10 new investigators and I´m excited to see how it goes this next week with them.

Bad news however is that one of our investigators, Olimpia, who we´ve been teaching and we have a baptismal date with her for this week actual live a whole 10 or 15 feet out of our boundaries. So unfortunately we had to pass her as a reference. Super bummed to have to do that but the missionaries in that area are great and they´ll do a great job finishing.

Nothing else too exciting. This is the last week of this change so next week I may be in a new area. I´ll let everyone know what happens next week! Thank you all for the prayers and support! I love you all! Have a great week!

Con amor,

Elder FIllmore

The Recovery

Hey everyone! I´m feeling much better from last week so thanks for all the prayers! And I´ve learned my lesson to never eat bugs again.

So this week we dropped a lot of investigators because nobody was progressing but we were blessed to find a handful of new ones who are way more prepared! We found Olimpia and she already has a baptism date and is ready to go. Unfortunately her family is super hard core Christians and don't like us but we´re still teach her and trying to find time when they're not home. We also found Militon and he came to church with his daughter yesterday and he says he feels like this is the right church! I´m excited to see what happens these next few weeks he before changes.

Today we went to the centro and took a lot of pictures but this computer is trash and won't let me upload so I´ll send them next week. Thanks for all the support! Sorry for the short letter again this week, we´re busy. Love you all!

Elder Fillmore

One Fourth of the Way

Hey everyone! Well, I´ve been out for 6 months now and holy heck and the time flown by! I don´t have a ton of time today but that´s fine because not a lot happened this week. I did divisions this week with Elder Reyes. He´s our zone leader and he´s awesome. It was a weird experience though. When we got to his area, someone told us we could come over for dinner. Elder Reyes told me it was weird because they were investigators and never want to talk to the missionaries, let alone invite them over for dinner. But we went. Worst dinner ever. They just put a big bowl of chapulines in front of us and well, that was it. I´ll send a picture of what chapulines are. Yikes. But yeah they made me quite sick and we spent the rest of the week in the house throwing up. I´m doing much better now and I´ve learned my lesson, haha. Well, I hope you all have a great week!

Elder Fillmore