This week was quite awesome in many ways.


Daniel has been progressing a lot. Assuming all goes as planned, he will be baptized this Saturday at 5:00 p.m. He is an awesome kid. The gospel has truly changed his life. Now we need to pray and work hard so that the rest of his family can accept the restored gospel as well.


We had a lesson this week with a former investigator named Linda. She just had a baby and still can´t leave her house. The lesson was quite powerful; I belive she will have a very strong testimony of the restoration. Plus half way through the lesson, Dani showed up. It turns out he´s her nephew! Now isn´t that awesome!

Gabi has been preparing to go to the temple in Vera Cruz on June 18th. She and her mom Sara have been working on their family history so that they can bring names of their anscestors. Sara still isn´t a member and, although she listens to us and goes to church, she has never wanted to commit to be baptized.


Yesterday we had a lesson with them. We explained the Plan of Salvation, specifically explaining how it is possible that Sara´s mom and grandma can recieve the gospel in the spirit world. When we explained that, the spirit was really strong. Sara really wants to see her family again. In that moment we invited her to be baptized the 13th of June, giving her just enough time to go to the temple with Gabi. She and Gabi are now excitedly preparing for Sara´s baptism and their trip to the temple. Is that awesome or what?


I can truly testify that the gospel of Jesus Christ is the awesomest thing there is. It is the only thing that can bring true happiness into our lives, and the only thing that can make that happiness last forever.


Can you think of more reasons why the gospel is awesome?


Love,
Elder Jayson Fraser

Strange, but cool.

Elder Bednar visits the mission

This week was strange, but cool.

On Thursday Elder Tamez got transferred. It wasn`t a normal transfer, so it was kind of sudden. He went to Cuautitlan and Elder Gil came to Pensamiento as my companion. He has 8 months in the mission. He`s from Galicia, España. He`s a cool guy. I`m sure we`ll get along great.


On Saturday we had the oportunity to recieve a visit from a special witness of the Lord Jesus Christ, Elder David A. Bednar of the quorum of the twelve. The whole mission met in the Tepalcapa stake center to hear from him and Arnulfo Valenzuela of the seventy. It was, of course, one of the coolest meetings I have been in on my mission.


Most of what we learned was about how we can learn for ourselves. Elder Bednar did teach us a lot of cool stuff, but as he stated, one of his main reasons for being there was so that we could learn that we don`t need an apostle to find our answers. As we use our precious gift of agency to actively seek answers, the Lord will show them to us by the power of the Holy Ghost.


As my dad correctly predicted, he didn`t come with a prepared speech. He just asked and answered questions. In that way everyone was recieving revelation and being edified together. He and Elder Valenzuela both said that their preparation is based Doctrine and Covenants 84:85. You must continually treasure up the words of life, do it your whole life, and then the Holy Ghost will tell you what to say. It sure communicated with all of us.


Investigators continue progressing, but I continue without time to write about all of them. But know that all is well.


Love,
Elder Jayson Fraser

God truly loves his children

I´m going to start with a story...

One of the less active members we have been teaching told us of a friend who is also a member. We went to visit her and her family. Lupita is mother of Abigail, Valenia, and a son who we still haven´t met. They lost pretty much everything through a long, difficult life. They are living on the money that they make buying and selling stuff that no one wants (toys, furniture, etc). They only have a couple of plastic lawn chairs because they´ve sold all of their furniture.

Abigail isn´t a member. The first day when we met the family we left her a pamphlet of the restoration of the gospel and invited her to read it and pray to know if it´s true.The very next day we passed by their house and she had already read, prayed, and she had recieved an answer! She recieved a spiritual confirmation that the church is true in just one day! That goes to show how much the Lord wants to show us the truth, and that if we have a willing heart, He will.

Yesterday they came to church. It was Abigail´s first time and her mom and sister´s first time in years. They really loved it! They felt the spirit a lot. Afterwards they went and talked with the bishop after going to pay their tithing, super excited to be in the true church of Jesus Christ. It was amazing to see how much the spirit entered into their hearts so quickly.


It´s great serving the Lord. I know that He lives and loves us all. We are all his children (Romans 8:16). If you´re not sure about that, trust in that scripture. The Spirit can testify to you that it´s true. With a willing and humble heart, like that of Abigail, ask God if he truly knows and loves you. I promise that He will answer.

Love,
Elder Jayson Fraser

p.s. - I´m going to get a new companion this week. I still don´t know who he is, but sometime this week Elder Tamez is going to head off to another area.

Another great week

May 4, 2015

Well, it was another great week. I´ll just jump into the body of my letter.

Gabi is doing great in the gospel. She is truly happy, and it shows. Her mom Sara isn´t a member, but she´s been attending church a bit with Gabi and she loves it. Our ward mission leader Arturo brought them both to the Mexico City temple visitors´ center last week, and I guess they both loved it. We´re going to be working a lot with them so that Sara can progress towards baptism and all of the eternal blessings that follow.

Yesterday we recieved an awesome call from Gabi. She said that she is planning on going on the ward temple trip to Vera Cruz in June (the Mexico CIty temple is still closed for mantainence, but opens in September). She was super excited to perform the work for her father, but realized that being a woman she couldn´t literally perform the ordinance for him. Her suggestion was that we baptize Daniel and he does it. He has the same name and birthday as her father, and they´ve become friends. We thought that was an awesome idea! We told her, and she hadn´t thought of this, that if her mom progresses, she could go to the temple too. We´re going to be working hard and praying harder that all three of them can be ready to go to the temple this June!

This week some members told us that their neighbor had asked if we could visit her. Excited, we went to visit. It turned out that she only needed help with some English homework (for some unknown reason, everyone always ask me for help with that). But we asked her if anyone she knew would be interested in the gospel, and she told us of some family members. We visited them and taught the restoration, and hopefully they´ll progress. They also gave us the names of two other families to visit. It´s amazing to see some of the ways that the Lord furthers his work. We´ve all heard that God moves in mysterious ways. If sending a blonde American kid to Mexico so that people will ask for help with English and we´ll be able to find and teach people about the restored gospel of Jesus Christ isn´t working in mysterious ways, I don´t know what is.

Basically it´s been a great week. Pretty much every week is great. Even when it may seem like it was a bad week from what I write in my letter, I always feel great. I´m truly happy in ther service of our Lord.

Love,
Elder Jayson Fraser

p.s. Cool news: On may 16 Elder David A. Bednar will be visiting our mission. We will have a meeting with all of the missionaries, and later he will meet with ward and stake leaders and do a question/answer session with the youth.