Hey everyone!
I hope you all had a fantastic week and were able to see a lot of miracles! It was such an amazing week for me with the Tour with Elder Montoya. It was so awesome and I received a lot of revelation from him and it was super busy and wild but really fun.
Reply: I'm super glad you all had a good week at home and you are getting in the rythem with school! That is so awesome that the boys beat Marsh by 1 I'm super glad to hear they are playing well but man I'm bummed to hear about coach Matt passing away that is pretty wild and not the greatest news to hear.
Thanks for your spiritual thoughts mom on 3rd Nephi and how cool is it that you've had such a focus on this part of the Book of Mormon. I love it too how the Lord always fulfills his promises he makes to us. I have seen that especially when we follow the guidance of our leaders and follow the inspiration, even when we don't understand it completely, we always receive the blessings from our Heavenly Father. Thanks so much and sure do enjoy reading your emails every week!
My Week: Wow it was such a crazy fast week but I will try to get as much as I can in this letter. On Tuesday we had a normal day in the office and worked then in the evening we had exchanges with Elder Gil and Elder Doughty who are really good elders in Coatza where I was so I went with Elder Gil to a park and we did phone calls and it was cool to help him out and give some advice for the area and we had a couple of good lessons but also had the craziest rain/lighting storm pass over us so we got soaked but all went well!
On Wednesday we had exchanges with the other Zone leaders in San Pedro (also my old area) and Elder Pimentel and I went with Elder Biggs (from Idaho Falls) in our area and it was so much fun and we had a lesson with Cecilia and her whole family about loving one another and the spirit was super awesome! Alos we taught Viridiana but she didn't come to church so we are gonna see what happens with her but it was an awesome day!
Thursday was a pretty good day but we were in the office getting everything ready for Elder Montoya till about 6 but it was good because the members were there to help us so it was a good time. We ended up going to our area and having something quick to eat but taught Ana and Lorena and set a baptismal date for Ana for September 17 and they both came to church yesterday with Guadalupe and that just shows you that working with MEMBERS is 100% more efficient but we are super pumped for them!
On Friday we got up and were at the office practicing our special musical number when we got a text from President Chavez saying we needed to buy tickets for missionaries to come to a meeting at 12 so we had to panic and do it but the Lord has his plan and everything went super smooth! We got to meet Elder Montoya (who is the President of the area of Mexico). We had meetings with him in the morning and then a leadership meeting in the afternoon and it was so awesome! I took a lot of notes and felt the spirit super strong. It just blows my mind how inspired he is to say the exact things we need to work on and hear as a mission. Then in the evening we had our zone conference and I was able to share my last testimony which was super crazy and makes me sad that it was my last one but what better way to go out with Elder Montoya coming. Him and his wife gave such good presentations and I learned so much. Then we had to bust to the bus station to catch our bus at 7 to go to Coatzacoalcos and do it all again saturday but we made it on time.
Saturday was a little different. We started the conference at 10 and then we said goodbye to everyone there and man that was hard to say goodbye to a few missionaries. We then had lunch together which was another huge miracle that we had enough and it was good. Then I had one of the most spiritual opportunities of my life and had a one on one interview with Elder Montoya. He asked me some questions but we just talked, we talked about my future and the biggest thing that stood out to me was when he told me, "Elder Reiley, everytime you see me, or sister Montoya, we expect you to say that you are a faithful disciple of Jesus Christ. Never lose your path." It was so awesome and I took a lot of notes but I testify that he, along with all of our leaders of the church, are men called of God who represent our Savior Jesus Christ. I love them and I was reminded of the amazing experience to be a missionary and a representative of my Savior Jesus Christ.
Sunday was super awesome too because we had some friends at church and made some good visits with recient converts but to finish up I invite you all to read 1 Kings 17:6-9 and remember that in life sometimes the "brook" will dry up but I promise every single one of you in the name of Jesus Christ as his representative that the Lord will guide us in our own personal path so we can always have the blessings and be "fed and filled" and was the prophet Elijah.
I love you all so much and take care and have such a good week!
Love Elder Reiley
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