Kelson at the Stake Center near the Mexico City Temple
Hey everyone! How are you all?!
This week has been just absolutely crazy! We are SO busy! I don't even have time to think!
We
keep contacting with the cards we have for the Open House of the Temple
and this week I was talking in front of a bus and there were two nuns
sitting like right in front of where I was standing...I tried to give a
card to one of the nuns and she just kind of gave me a dirty look but
the other one was totally interested and took a card! HAHAHA! I hope she
goes to the temple! I love contacting on the bus from our house because
it passes RIGHT in front of the Temple, so I can even point at the
temple as we finish and talk about it a little and then get off! Haha!
Posing in the call center at the Mexico City Temple open house
So
the temple is getting LOTS of referrals for the Open House and our Zone
Leaders have kinda got put in charge of putting them all online...so we
are still working on that like every day a few hours! We have to put in
all the information and their comments and then find what ward they are
in and that takes a LONG time...no one knows their addresses here.
Their addresses are like: Calle 6 Casa Azul Puerta Blanca camioneta a
fuera (Calle 6 Blue House with a White door and a truck out front)
Hahaha okay not always like that...but a lot of people don't know where
they live haha! We got to make lots of phone calls to get addresses
completed, my companion was really good at that!
Missionaries working on processing the referrals from the Mexico Temple Open House
The
comments the people have about the temple are amazing. They all feel
the Spirit so much and their manner of explaining it is just so
beautiful. One of the first ones I saw said, "I have never felt so much
peace in my life. I would like to join your church. Please visit me." A
lot of others expressed their desires to do baptisms in the temple font.
Just a really cool experience!
A sample of the comments being made on cards at the Temple Open House:
"Very pretty Temple. Beautiful home worthy of a house of the Lord. Celebrated be the name
of the the Lord and of the beloved Son of our Savior Jesus Christ."
On Saturday
night we were there at the temple and we had to go in and get the
referrals at the end of the tour but because it was raining we got to
enter the temple! I got to start on one side and go to the end and come
back! It is SO beautiful! And I also ran into some very wonderful
friends from Nauvoo who are working on the cultural celebration, so that
was such a sweet thing!
A few weeks ago some
people stopped their truck and started talking to us and explained they
were members who had just moved here and their daughter Allison was 8
and ready to be baptized! The Bishop asked us to go and go over a few
things with her and her baptism was yesterday! 10 minutes before it
started she asked me to baptize her...I we had asked a young man to do
it but he was willing to let me take his place so she was just so happy!
Her name is Allison! And she is American! WAHOO! Her dad is living
right now in California but he is coming here in October so if I'm still
here I hope to be able to teach him in English! He is very excited and
wants to be baptized here with his family. He doesn't speak hardly any
English though so his baptism would be in English or Armenian (He´s from
there!) so we will see about that!
After
Allison´s baptism the we let all the water out and went to eat with the
members and we got a phone call that the Zone Leader´s font was filling
up with Brown water...the Stake President said they couldn't do the
baptism in the water so we had to run and fill up our font again and
they did it there! The thing was we just didn't have any keys to close
the drain on the font or start the boiler...so we started the boiler
with a hanger and a metal hook through the locked door and blocked the
drain with a piece of plastic haha it was pretty crazy but it all turned
our great! The Zone Leaders just got a missionary they are training who
is waiting for a visa to go to California and so he got to baptize her!
He is so great, his name is Elder Canul and he is from Yucutan! We are
having lots of fun here!
I love you all and hope you are having a great time in the things you are doing!
-Elder Davies
Temple view from a street in Kelson's area. I didn't even see the temple the first time I looked!
A nice sized spider they found
Calling referrals at the Temple Open House
Referral cards from the Temple Open House
A picture in the tent leading to the Temple Open House
At Temple Open House
Picture before the baptism
Another Temple view from a member's 6th Floor apartment
View of the temple from a street in the area
Kelson's companion going through referals from the Temple Open House
Elder Tolli (Brazil) and Kelson in a MotoTaxi
(Motorcycle with a carriage on the back. Not OSHA approved...)
Hey you beautiful people!!
How are you? This week has just been fantastic! Okay I need to start telling you a few details about last week!!
Last
week the Zone Leaders had a baptism and they had VIP temple tour
invitations to give out so we went with the other District Leader and
his companion to help them give them out and we got there about half way
through their baptism! Then they asked me to sing a special musical
number in English so I sang Be Still My Soul. Totally not expecting
that, and I made up a few lines because I haven't sung that song in
English since the MTC...so that was a fun thing but everyone liked it I
think! And even the American Elders didn't realize I made up words haha
SUCCESS!!
In our Zone Activity last week we
made PIZZA and it was delicious! I was cooking the whole time so I
didn't get any pictures sorry about that! But now I know how to make
pizza MEXICAN STYLE! It just has a bunch of weird cheese and like every
type of meat. We made one and we put bacon IN the bread and it as SO
delicious. Definitely gonna make more pizza here.
Mexico City Temple Open House video Footage
Aug 15 - Sep 5 2015. Kelson is at this event!
Like
I said about the VIP temple tour, on Monday they had a special open
house for the neighbors of the temple (those in the two wards in front
of and around the temple), and it was a huge success! We have already
seen miracles in those two areas and we expect to see SO many more in the
Open House. I think about 10,000 people went on Saturday to the Open
House, and Friday (the first day) I'm really not sure but I know more
than a 1,000 went the first hour! SO great!
We
did divisions all week starting Wednesday, so on Saturday I was with
Elder Jensen from Las Vegas and we went to do two baptismal interviews
at the Stake Center. We usually do them in the Visitor´s Center but they
are using that as an intro to the temple tour, so we went to the Stake
Center that is literally connected to the Temple Square. I saw a lot of
dancing and some costumes and pageantry and my Nauvoo Pageant senses
were tingling! When I walked to the gate I told Jensen, "I have a
feeling I'm gonna see someone I know!" And I sure did! We walked in the
Stake Center and there was Sister Collier, one of the authors of the
Nauvoo and British Pageant! I was so excited! I kinda snuck in and said,
"Hi Sister Collier!" It was an exciting moment! We got to talk for a
second and then they went back to work but let's just say I am VERY
excited for the Temple Dedication and Cultural Celebration!
This is a video from YouTube of a moto-Taxi Ride
in a city near Mexico City so you can see what Kelson experiences :)
So
I have 9 months in the mission now! That means if I was a Sister I
would be half way, and all the Sister Missionaries in my District nicely
reminded me of that! haha! I can't believe how fast the months go. It
is just SO crazy. I don't want this to ever stop, I'm learning so much
and I LOVE this work!
We had a really good
week, we found some new people and put some more baptismal dates but now
we just need to follow up with this people! There are so many though
things are getting so crazy. There just aren't enough hours in the day!
And that thing that worries us is we haven't even received any
references from the Open House (they are still figuring out how to text
us all of them) so when we do, it's gonna get even MORE crazy! I'm so
excited but I know it's gonna be crazy but I'M SO EXCITED!
I love you all so much and have a great week!
-Elder Davies
Mission Shoes starting to show signs of hard work?
