Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Arbide. Elders Maxfield, Granillo. Baptism. 5790 blog hits

Elders Salazar, Maxfield, Granillo
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Family

I was sorry to hear that Lou Stokes passed away. I remember that he was always really loving, and he always kept a light, loving atmosphere.

As far as my foot goes, I am not taking anything right now. When it hurts a little more than usual I take an Ibuprofen.

This last week went well. Miriam was baptized and the baptism went off without a hitch. We had kind of an interesting meeting yesterday with the stake president and all the bishops in the stake here. Ever since the Mexico Leon mission started to baptize over 250 people every month the bishops have kind of had a hard time dealing with so much progress so fast. They have found that since we are baptizing so many people, they are having a hard time handling retention, callings, ordinations, visiting teaching, interviews, and preparing people to go to the temple and so forth. They seem to feel that whatever little problem happens in their ward, for some reason it’s the "missionaries fault". So last night the bishop asked (with the permission of President Cox) that elder Maxfield, myself, elder Callen and elder Trejo (the other zone leaders in Leon) to come to a meeting with ALL the bishops in the stake. Basically for 2 hours we were asked to defend every little decision we have made and explain why our elders do what they do. They question whether we are baptizing because it is what the lord wants or we are baptizing just to baptize and reach a goal. It was an interesting meeting to say the least.

This Thursday President and sis Cox invited elder Maxfield and me over for thanksgiving dinner. She bought a 22 pound turkey from Costco; the word for excited in Spanish is ANIMADO!! President’s youngest son is in Leon with his wife for thanksgiving so we will get to meet him. He is 23 and served his mission in Brazil. He was just married a few months back, in March I believe.

Anyways, gotta run but I am going to send a few pictures.

Love ya!

Elder Salazar


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27 comments:

Jeff Trader said...

Greetings Elder Salazar,

Happy Thanksgiving! I am glad the pain in your foot is manageable. You are in for a real treat to spend Thanksgiving with Pres Cox & family. I spent one Christmas with my Mission President's family; I don't think I understood some of the personal sacrifices and challenges of my Mission President's family until I had spent that time with them.

Your experience with the Bishops is rare; one that very few FTM's have a glimpse of. Having previous experience, I know how critical it is for you to have a solid relationship with your Bishops. It's true, the Bishops won't always see eye to eye with you but you have been given the power to baptize; Bishops don't have a vote in who you baptize or how many you baptize. I am certain there is good reason for that. At the same time, pray to have empathy for these Bishops; they have great burdens to carry and even under the best of circumstances they will feel overwhelmed. Ask the Lord how you can help lighten their burden. Do everything you can to apprise them of your progress with investigators and faciliate fellowshipping of those who will be baptized. Avoid surprise baptisms and prepare your investigators to meet the Bishop.

Just my two-cents.

We pray for you often. Keep up the great work.

Jeff Trader

Anonymous said...

Elder Salazar:

Wow, Bishop Trader's remarks were really meaningful.

I can sorta see the bishops' concerns, although I don't know of a ward or branch that couldn't use in some capacities good convert workers

Send a few el norte, ok?

Because by the time you get to read this, Thanksgiving will have passed, I hope yours was a good one and you left the Cox's as stuffed as the bird you dined on.

Looking forward to the ward Christmas social. Your mother is terrific as our Activities chairperson.

Would riding a skateboard help alleviate your foot pain (just kidding).

God bless you and your missionary efforts.

Bishop Bowring

Bishop B

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