Hey everyone! The week has been pretty great. It finally feels like we are getting somewhere. We have one progressing investigator with a baptismal date for November 28. His name is Francisco Fuentes and he is so awesome. He's blind, and already has his answer that we are representatives of Jesus Christ. It was actually pretty funny. He said he had a dream, and he heard a voice saying that he should "listen to my messengers". So he looked around but couldn't see where the sound had come from. He then explained that he could see in his dreams, of course. Haha! I'm super excited, because he'll probably be my first baptism and Elder Taveras' last one.

We had a missionary activity this last Saturday, Halloween day. We watched Meet The Mormons. We contacted so many people. Every one of our investigators, every member we ate with, All the less-active members, everyone. We invited so many people to come. Well the night came, and about 15 people showed up. We had one less-active family, no investigators, and the Branch Presidency and family. It was a little rough. But the next day, we had two investigators show up to church, which was a record for me haha. One was Hmo Francisco and the other was Hma Magdalena. But it still was pretty good. We had a few people tell us that they couldn’t come, but watched it the next day on their own.

Hermana Magdala is one of our harder investigators. She is the wife of the Mission Leader, and has heard from the missionaries for about 13 years now. She is really warm and receptive to us, but she has no desire to get baptized. We have to somehow just her to want to read the BoM and to get baptized. She believes in God, Jesus Christ, and she thinks that our message is good. But she doesn’t want to read or know that it’s true. It’s a little rough with her. But we're going to keep trying with her.

We also had divisions this week with the Zone Leaders. Elder Benitez came here to Ocotlan with me, while Elder Taveras went to Chapala with Elder Hogge. It was rough. E Benitez is a great missionary, but he treated me like a normal missionary, which was really hard, because I barely know what I'm doing haha. And we definitely got lost at least twice, but it went pretty well.

Overall, this week has been pretty good. Halloween is basically non-existent here. And Day of the Dead is just alters, parades of people with face-paint, and people visiting graveyards. It’s a little creepy actually. And it’s actually today, November 2nd. But the members here don’t really do much for this holiday. And neither do we.

The Spanish is actually progressing so much. It’s been so much better. I'm still struggling on my part of speaking though. And with understanding, it’s either about 70% I understand or nothing haha!

It rained the other day; Friday I think, but nothing bad. It really hasn't rained real hard here yet. We've had much more in SoJo than here. 

Oh and also, my scripture this week is one that President Egginton shared this morning during a training for the greenies in my generation. 1 Nephi 4:6 "And I was led by the Spirit, not knowing beforehand the things which I should do." Definitely something I need to work on, confiding more in the guidance of the Spirit.

Well, I hope you all have had a great week, and have another fabulous one this week. Love you all, thank you so much for all your love and support, and I'll talk to you all next week!!

Love,

Elder Kaden Quinn