Answer to Mom's ?'s ❤️❤️💓

Celebrating Happy New Year with David and Alma Cardenas Sanchez Family 1.1.19

Elder Raven!

I have a couple of ?'s  I LOVE YOU! ❤️❤️💓

Love, Mom

1. We love to read that you are finding less active families. Who are some of them? 

We have been working with the families Pucheta Jara, Hoyos Hernandez, Cruz Cruz, everyone is really amazing, and we´ve been seen an increase in attendance, so I am really excited to see how the rest of January goes!  I pray that we can have a full chapel on the 27th as a kind of birthday present for me, jaja!

2. How is it going being district leader?

It´s tough to take the time out of the day to check how the other Elders are doing, and see if there is anything I can do to help them. Then have their numbers not be very good and getting chewed out a bit by Elder Powers for not producing better numbers every week ... but the upsides are truly awesome because I get to prepare capacitation that literally is just sharing gospel principles, inviting the spirit, asking for the patience of the other Elders to bear with my Spanish, and so many wonderful spiritual experiences there!  In fact, Elder Powers and Elder Santos are going to do intercambios with us tomorrow and they are going to drop on in on our district meeting, but I hope it's going to be great and I am hoping that they are impressed!

 3. What are some of your responsibilities?

 I really love Elder Santiago, Elder Basurto, y Elder Aguilar, and Elder Aguilar received his Dear John letter this past week so he´s really hurting, but we are hoping to animate him and get him functioning fully!  The funny thing is that he has more experience in the mission that the other three of us combined but sometimes we have to direct him to be more focused or more hardworking, haha!!

4. How is Elder Santiago doing? 

Yes we have been able to connect a lot better these past few days, he is feeling better, but like my mass email shared, he´s knee has been really hurting so we´re struggling with that but we will be up and running soon!

5.Did you figure out your code for your luggage locks? 

YES I FIGURED OUT THE CODES; THANK YOU SO MUCH; jaja!

6,  Is there any other books or supplies you would like? I will send miracles of forgiveness...Weight doesn’t matter when we mail you packages.

I would also like Articles of Faith by James E. Talmage if you have that one, or Saints if you have a spare copy!

7. Was Jose Luiz confirmed? 

Yes, Jose Luiz was confirmed the last Sunday, and he is doing really well, we are just battling with his work schedule to get him to come to church!

8. Do you still have your towels that say Raven on them? 

Yes I have been using my Raven towels, they are AWESOME!

9. Did you open some of your birthday gifts that were in the package or are you waiting for your birthday? 

I did open my presents just because I wanted to see if there was anything useful, but thank you so much, and I really loved all the presents they have helped make missionary life a lot easier and more exciting!  Specifically, the hymnal arrangements!

I love you guys so much! Thanks for the encouragement, love, prayers, and all the spiritual thoughts that you guys share to strengthen my testimony and encouragement to do my best here in the mission!

Love you to the moon and back, then multiplied by a googleplex! 💙

Love,

Elder Raven