3 October 2016 - I got my hair cut

Dear Friends and Family,

There have only been a couple of days in this week because of the whole temple thing, so I will be keeping it short and focused.

Today we had two small excursions within our area. We are at Buffalo Wild Wings (yes, that is a thing here) with the AP's and then we made a brief appearance at a district activity. It was fun. 

Also, I got my hair cut.....in case you didn't notice.

This week was general conference. I was able to attend all 5 sessions and I very much enjoyed all of them. 

It is always a great feeling being able to sustain our leaders every six months and hear their words. The message is very clear this time: Repent and avoid the philosofies of men. I learned a lot this conference and there are many things that I will be needing to apply in my life and in my work.

Se que este Iglesia es dirigida por profetas y apostoles bajo el orden de Jesucristo. Se que si seguimos sus advertencias y consejos, seremos bendecidos y felices.

Los amo,

Elder lambert 

28 September 2016 - This week was long...and different

Dear friends and family,

This week was long.....and different.

We have been making a lot of good progress with a few investigators that should be coming to conference this week. That being said, it required a LOT of good planning to make it happen since we missed an entire day of work.......

My companion, Elder Ng, has irritable bowel syndrome and an errosion of the stomach lining. He needed to get a camera shoved down his throat to see if his gut was OK and we did it on Thursday. BUT that means that we needed to spend the WHOLE day in the hospital on Wednesday.

Here in Mty there is a hospital called Doctors Hospital. It is considered the eighth most beautiful and advanced hospitals in the world (a stark contrast to the public hospitals here). This hospital is the only one that takes the church's insurance, so every time a missionary gets sick, they have to go there. My companion turned out to be doing a lot better, but the real crazy thing is what the room looked like. I have been in very few hotel rooms that are larger or nicer than the room that my companion and i slept in the night before the operation.

Today we were able to attend the temple. This was the last time I will be able to attend until my last day in the field :´(. Three different zones attended so it was packed, but I got to see some old pals. We finished off going to the missionaries' facvorite buffet with our district. It was a good week.

Se que el Señor nos da la inspiracion que necesitamos. Se que los profetas vivientes nos enseñan la verdad y que podemos seguir sus consejos para mejorar nuestras vidas.

Los amo.

19 September 2016 - This week was cool

Dear Friends and Family.

This week was cool.

We had a meeting with the mission president and stake president to talk about the missionaries in the zone on Wednesday. I also had to get my temple reccomend redone. We were able to have a nice little coucil with President McArthur. I can really testify at this moment that Daniel McArthur is a man called of God to direct the missionaries in this part of the world. You should all be jealous that he is my mission Pres and not yours :P

We ended the week with the Noche Mexicana. about 106 years ago or something like that, Mexico declared its independence. For about two weeks at the end of August and the beginning of September, the red white and green is just EVERYWHERE here int mty. There are small vendor carts going around all over the place selling Mexican flags of every size, noise makers, sombreros and even fake mustaches (no joke). Here in the stake, we had a little celebration in the stake center. It was pretty cool. I ate tamales. There were traditional dances (the one that I really wanted to see was too late for us to watch) and traditional food. I painted my face with the rojo blanco verde. I would show you pictures, but this computer doesn't let me......again.....

All around it was a pretty fun week. I learned a lot and had a lot of fun.

Se que este es la obra del Señor. Se que la dirige por hombres inspirados. Se que todos somos hijos de dios y que este es la única Iglesia verdadera sobre la faz de la Tierra.

Los amo,

Elder Lambert

13 September 2016 - This week was...new

Dear friends and family,

This week was...new.

I was transfered to San Nicolas. I am now in the same municipality that I began the mission in. Actually, my first area is literally bordering my new area. It is likely that I will finish my mission here.

By the by, here's the photo that I wasn't able to send last week.

So, anyway, what happened this week?

We had a leadership conference with ALL the leaders of the mission. That was......something.

This new area is interesting. The majority is super catholic middle class neighboorhoods that are kinda uncomfortable to work in, but then you take a bus for fifteen minutes and you wind up in the one of the lowest low class areas I have worked in. I love it there. 

This week, I had the opportunity to bare my testimony of the restoration more fervently and powerfully than in most any other part of my mission with an investigator that has been struggling because of some pretty serious opposition. It felt incredible to be able to bare powerful and meaningful testimony to a single person in the middle of a small plot of land surrounded by chickens (remember that I hate chickens).

In that same part of the area, there is a small soup kitchen type thing. That is where the ward choir practices. This is the first choir I have participated in since the CCM. It was pretty sweet, although almost nobody knows how to read music........

Se que el Señor nos manda dificultades para ayudarnos a superarlas. Se que Dios nos ama y quiere bendecirnos. Se que este obra esta dirigida por El.

Los amo,

Elder Lambert

5 September 2016 - Now, my adventure continues in San Nicolas

Dear Friends and Family,

First off: shout out to my Wildcats for their excellent diss on Park City. My mother told me all about it.

Moving on: This week was amazing!

It all started last Friday (you will have to imagine it all because it is REALLY hard to get a computer where I can upload photos). I get a call from the zone leaders and they tell me they have a reference.....

Veronica used to live in the state of San Luis here in Mexico. She met the (sister) missionaries a year or so ago and had been taking the lessons for that entire time. She really liked the church and felt many incredible changes and miracles in her life during the time that she began to live according to the principles of the restored Gospel. She wanted to go to church and take her three children, but she couldn't. Her live in boyfriend was abusive and alcoholic and didn't let her come to church. The four times that she and her daughter Sandra were able to make it to church were miracles in progress. About a month or so ago, she made the decision to escape from her boyfriend and move here to Nuevo Leon (one state to the east). She settled down in a one room apartment in the area of our ZL's and lived there for a while waiting for the reference that the loving and diligent sister missionaries had sent to make its way through the system. There has been a slight problem as of late with the Church's map and reference system. Referrals don't get assigned to their areas because of some undefined problem in google maps. Therefore, we mission leaders get the wonderful task of sifting through hundreds of refferals and assigning them manually to the areas that are in our district or in an area that we used to work in. This Veronica was one of these refferals and it turns out that about two weeks ago, she moved to a (slightly) larger house just on the edge of our area. I could not contain my excitement when we recieved the referral. I had felt, after the baptism of Irma, that there were still baptisms that we could pull off. I was right the last time I had that impression, and I was even MORE right this time. On Saturday I had the opportunity to baptize Veronica and my companion baptized her two children Sandra and Sergio. On sunday I confirmed Sergio a member of the church and Elder Chan gave Veronica's 4 year old son Axel Tupac (I love his name a lot) his inscription blessing.

This change was extremely difficult and sometimes discouraging, but the Lord did his part in a way that I cannot even wrap my head around.

Now, my adventure continues in San Nicolas where I hope to find even MORE of the God's chosen children.

Se que este obra esta dirigida por el Señor y nadie mas. Se que Cristo nos ama y que nos bendice de acuerdo con nuestra fe. Se Dios es un Dios de milagros y que todos somos sus hijos.

Los amo,

Elder Lambert