I don´t have much time, but here´s my week:

Daniel Tirado was baptized on Saturday. He had been attending church with his girlfriend in Tepalcapa for a while, but he lives in our ward. So we got into contact with him a while back and have been helping him to prepare. He´s a great guy.

In other news, I´m being transfered to Tepalcapa. It´s close to La Quebrada, but a whole other stake. I´m excited for the oportunity to serve the Lord wherever He wants me to be.

I love this work. It truly is the Lord´s work.

Love,
Elder Jayson Fraser

Happiness

I´ve been having a great time here in Mexico! This is the greatest thing I could possibly be doing.


A few thing that are on my "Happiness project" list this week:


- We met a guy at a dry cleaners who offered us free dry cleaning (we brought our suits there today).


- We had a great lesson with the Adorno family. We helped them to repent and change.


- I had a watermellon flavored Arizona.


- Brother Bautista, when the appointment he was accompanying us to fell through, decided to take us to meet an old friend who lives close. His old neighbor Guadalupe is really excited to hear more about the church.


As you can see, there are lots of different things that can make a missionary happy. For that matter, there are lots of things to make us all happy. That really is why we´re here. That´s life´s purpose (2 Nephi 2:25).


Plus it´s just a lot funner being happy.


As most of you know, the mission isn´t always the happiest experience. In a talk in stake conference last week a recently returned missionary shared the story of how she got a scar on her leg, specifying that her purpose was not to scare off anyone thinking of serving a mission. But she said that she loved that scar. Although the long day that it reminds her of was not fun in the moment, she remembers all of the people she served and the great times she had. And most of all, she remembers the Savior who never will forget us (Isaiah 49:16).


I hope we can all remember the Savior and joyfully live in His service.


Love,
Elder Jayson Fraser

Promises Worth Keeping

El Pirámide del Sol

El Pirámide de la Luna y la vista desde encima

My companion and I by this cool jaguar thing, me in front of "El Pirámide del Sol" (The Sun Pyramid) and halfway up it.

A guy teaching us about natural paints used by the Aztec people.

And a Puma that they painted in a similar manner anciently

My companion and I by this cool jaguar thing, me in front of "El Pirámide del Sol" (The Sun Pyramid) and halfway up it.

Since a picture is worth a thousand words, I shouldn´t have to write anything after sending so many photos. But I guess I´ll say something, although it might be short.

The work in which I am engaged here is so important; I realize it more and more every day. Just the other day on the bus I was just looking out the window over the vast sea of concrete houses that are all within the area asigned to my stewardship. In that moment it hit me, maybe more than ever before, the importance of my calling. Every person that lives within my eyesight from that elevated viewpoint is looking for what we have. They are waiting for us.

They are waiting for all of us.

Whether you´ve been called to a full-time mission or as a primary teacher, or if you don´t have a calling at all, you have a great responsability as a member of the Lord´s church. This truly is Jesus Christ´s church. You have been baptized, recieving sacred covenants and, above all, the obligation to represent Christ at all times and in all things and in all places (see Mosiah 18). How often do you think of those promises? Do you live up to them?

You have recieved in return the precious gift of the Holy Ghost, something generations of believers have longed for. When was the last time that you thanked your Heavenly Father for sending a member of the Godhead to be your constant companion?

I hope that each one of us can take the time to ponder these things prayerfully. I promise that the Lord will give us all the guideance that we need as we do so.

Love,
Elder Jayson Fraser

Proyecto de Felicidad

Sister Titensor, my mission president´s wife, has asked us to participate in a "happiness project" in which we write down every day at least three things that make us happy. It´s been quite fun writing those things out and, although I haven´t been perfectly diligent since we started the project, I´ve seen that it really does help when you notice the simple things that make you happy. Today I would like to simply share a few of those thoughts in no particular order.

Yesterday we were walking in the street and we heard someone yell "¡Élderes!". We went to talk to her and she said that her grandson (who was about 12) had seen us go by and wanted to meet us. Now the whole family could have the chance to hear the restored gospel.

We had a good, productive ward council meeting.

I learned a bit about the history of Teotihuacán from some members. They offered to bring us there.

One member always asks my companion what it´s like in "Skachetoon" (my companion is from Saskatchewan).

We had a cool zone meeting, in which I felt strongly the spirit.

Jared, an investigator, understood why he needs to be constant in the little things, such as reading the scriptures and praying, in order to have a true personal conversion.

The new missionaries in the district bring new "animo".

I got a package full of candy from my cousin! (Thank you!)

We helped a stressed-out sister clean her dining room, allowing the spirit to enter into her home.

We found chinese food!

These are a few of the things I´ve written in my agenda next to a smiley face over the last few weeks. I hope that something from there will be of interest for you. I know that The Lord can always guide us to the personal revelation that we need in small and simple ways. If you look, he will tell you something out of this. He sure has to me.

Love,
Elder Jayson Fraser