I apologize that Hermana Dangl’s letter is late, there
was no internet in all of Chiapas yesterday so she couldn’t email us until
today, Tuesday.
Mama Dangl - The Blogger of Hermana Dangl Mexico Blog
Hola, hola!
Happy Monday! This week was a bit
loco (crazy), we had lots of things going on!
- Hermana
Maldonado got back from Tuxtla on Monday night so I spent the day with the
Sister Training Leaders. It was
basically like a sleepover, honestly, haha!
- English
Classes have started up in Tapachula!
I’ve gotten to teach English throughout my whole mission, and
Tapachula is no exception.
- Zone
Conference and interviews with President Doman! Hermana Doman talked to us as well and
she told us about 3 attitudes we can have (it comes from an awesome talk
by John Bytheway). 1. How bad can I be? 2. How good do I have to be? and 3. What
is the best that I can be? Our
attitude determines everything. I
love the Mormonad that shows a teenager tipping his chair watching TV on
the edge of a cliff . . . out attitude determines how we live and we
should never even think about approaching the line or the edge of the
cliff because it’s so easy to fall off.
- Multi-zone
Activity! We went to Izapa and saw
the tree of life! It’s a stone that
indigenous people here found a long time ago and preserved, and it has a
carving of the tree of life. The elements
have worn it away a bit (a lot) but it was cool to see! If you’d like to know about the tree of
life you can read 1 Nephi Chapter 8 in the Book of Mormon. We got to see some ruins as well!
- We
have a new investigator who is atheist and it’s proving to be a
challenge. Like Alma, I as well
feel that “all things denote there is a God; yea even the earth, and all
things that are upon the face of it, yea, and it’s motion, and also all
the planets which move in their regular form do witness that there is a “supreme
creator.” Alma 30:44
- Small
miracle – we set out to search for less actives with very few directions
and found them! Then even better,
we found their non-member families and one of them (the grandson of a less
active) came to church on Sunday and wants to be baptized. :o)
- We
had an FHE (Family Home Evening) with less actives, actives, and
investigators and it was awesome! I
feel bad for always fighting my parents on participating in Family Home
Evening because now I realize that it’s fundamental. I think the mission has made me realize
that my parents and leaders were right about a lot of things basically my
whole life.
- We
had a night this week where the fire alarm went off basically all night
every 1-2 hours and it was the worst night ever.
- Miracle
on Sunday! We were planning for the
day and had no clue who to teach or visit. . . but we finally decided to
look for a referral we had received.
In that moment a member pulled up and we asked for a ride. We told them who we were looking for but
that we didn’t have the direction, just the neighborhood. They happened to know him and while we
were with them, they saw the referral walking in the street and we were
able to contact him! We never would have found him nor his house but the
Lord provided a way, just like always!
That’s
all for this week!
Con mucho amor, Hermana Dangl
Jumping at the ruins!
Hermana Maldonado & Hermana Dangl
(stone) Piedra de Izapa Stela 5 - Tree of Life
Book of Mormon, Missionary Nametag, & Izapa Stela 5 Stone
Mission President Doman is on the far right.
Below: Our zone on Pday at the ruins!
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