Week 99!

This week was good!

At the beginning of the week due to the baptism we had to drain the Baptism font, we realized that the pump that was used to drain the water was not working, so ya! it was to the buckets. It was a funny 2 hours of work. 

To the Buckets!!

Everything has been good in the Zone, there is a lot of work to do and everyone is doing great here in Cozumel! Sorry for the short letter!


Elder Stabenow

Elder Vergara and Elder Stabenow!

Baptism!

First things first. We had a baptism this week!

 His name is Jorge! We were teaching Jorge and the sisters of our ward were teaching his Daughter Naomi. It was a very good experience and they were very ready to be baptized when I arrived in Cozumel. 

Jorge and his daughter Naomi on their Baptism day!

We are doing well here in the Zone and we look forward for more success in the other areas of the zone. It has been a very good week and it is very fun to be here in Cozumel. I enjoy the zone a lot! 

Everyone is very animated to work and all the missionaries here are really great!



Thanks for the love and support


Elder Stabenow

Weeks 97 Rebecca's Baptism

Aug 7,2017

This weeks has been very good. Here is the picture of Rebeca and her family at her baptism. Such a good experience, I believe that it was one of the most beautiful service that I have seen. This week In Cozumel Has been very fun. It is good to be back with Elder De La Rosa and to be working in our calling. We are finding more people to teach and we have at least 2 baptisms this transfer. It is fun to be here in Cozumel and it is a nice chill place to be. It will be a very fun Transfer!



Thanks for the love and support



Elder Stabenow

 

Rebeccas Baptism

Elder Stabenow and Elder De La Rosa relaxing on the Roof!

Week 96 On the Last Trasfer!

So the big news is that I am not going to be finishing my mission here in Playa Del Carmen.

I got the call from President today. And when it’s a call from president it is something special. I am now going to be serving in the island of Cozumel as a Zone Leader! And the best part of all is that I am going to be with my old companion Elder De La Rosa! So Cool! I am very excited for my last transfer! Elder Aranda got is transfers on Tuesday and had to leave on Wednesday to go to the office to be a Materials Secretary so I am with another American for the week, Elder Bierman.

Elder Stabenow and Elder Aranda

Elder Stabenow and Elder Bierman 

We are teaching Rebeca right now, and she has a baptism date for today. At the beginning of the week she said that she wanted to be baptized another week and that she was not ready. So we left her with the assignment to read and ask god before deciding. The next time I went with our zone leader, Elder Trujillo, and we got talking with her and the same, another week. So I asked if she prayed, she said that she did and that she knew all of this was true, but just wanted to be baptized another week. So Elder Trujillo said "Who do you think is telling you to be baptized another week?" And a very long pause, and she said "Satan", and there was another very long pause. Then she said, "Can it be on Saturday?". I was so amazed on what happened there. And there was a strong happy feeling there in that little room.

Today we are going to baptize Rebeca. I am going to have the privilege of baptizing her and I will always remember that experience. I will try to send some pictures the next week of her. Thanks for the prayers, they really do help.



Love you all!





Elder Stabenow

Week 94 Visit to Tulum!

07/17/2017


The week has been very good we were able to put some baptism dates with new people but the problem is that they did not show up to Church.


Today was very fun. We went to Tulum! Too much fun! It was so much fun this time. Way better than the last time. This time we went early in the morning, so when we got there was almost no one, so we got to take some really good pictures. If we go there as a family someday it would be best to do it early in the morning, unless we want a tour guide. As missionaries we have to get out of Tulum at 10 in the morning, because if we don´t it can get, let’s just say it can get "Spiritually Dangerous. HaHa! But it is a really nice place.

Elder Stabenow and Elder Beirman Visiting Tulum!

I have noticed that some stakes here struggle with having strong youth, and really that is what the church needs, strong youth that stand up for their beliefs. I feel that being a leader of the youth is one of the most important jobs. There are a lot of duties to do in the church and they are all very important.+

Week 90 - 92

06/ 16, 2017


Well, we are in the last week of the transfer so today is our P-day so that we can clean the house really well if we are changed. But it is very unlikely that we are changed. We are seeing a lot of progress, The Guillen Solis Family has a date to get married! The 29th of June! We had some difficulty finding and they were not able to go to church for 2 weeks but one day the Assistants came with us so that they could meet them. We got there and it was only their kids that we were teach, but then the parents came and we were able to teach the whole family. We were able to commit them to get married and baptized! It was truly a miracle! So the next day my companion and I went and got the papers they needed to set a date for their wedding and they will be married on the 29th! We are so excited for them!



Thanks for all the support



Elder Stabenow












Pictures, My District and part of my Zone



6/26/2017

Week 91

Just to let you guys know that we were not changed and we are doing alright here. We are definitely trying to find a lot of new investigators, but we all is well. Not much has changed this past week. Last Sunday I ran into a few people from my stake, it was fun to see them and talk with them, I did not recognize them at first but they mentioned that they were from Kaysville, and then I said i was from Kaysville as well and we found out that we were in the same stake. Also that same Sunday we had a LOT of Gringos in the church, actually a big group of them sang in a choir and they did "Soy un Hijo de Dios" In Spanish! It was super good! Sorry for not saying much this week!



Elder Stabenow


7/03/2017

Week 92

Not too much happened in the week, but I felt that is was a setting up success for the next week. We are doing an activity with the members where we teach about Prayer, than we share from Acts 1:23-26 and then we invite them to make a list of friends or people they now, and we also invite them to pray to find out who God has choses from that list to be a member of the Church. We already have plans this week to receive more than 8 referrals from members. It will be exciting to see what happens this next week. Hope Everyone has a good 4th of July, because it will be pretty normal around here in Mexico!





Thanks for all they prayers and support.




Elder Stabenow

6/5/2017 to 6/13/2017

6/5/2017
Hello Everyone!

I have not sent a weekly letter for quite some time. We are doing alright here in Playa Del Carmen, we are still teaching The Guillen Solis Family and we hope that they get married soon and also get baptized, and they are doing great. I see a lot of potential in them.

This week I have been studying a lot about the Priesthood, What a wonderful thing it is to have Priesthood holders in our homes and the what a blessing it is to have the Priesthood to bless the lives of others as The Lord desires, I love that knowledge of that.

I decided to send a picture of Elder Aranda and I doing a practice in our home for his training, it was a fun little Idea and I think it worked well, we were just teaching together to a piece of paper with a face on it.

Thanks for the love and support


Elder Stabenow

                                                                                                                                                        

Teaching!

6/13/2017

Hello Everyone!

At the beginning of the week we had our Generation Meeting so we got to go back up to Cancún and have a Meeting with our Mission President. It was really good and it was fun to see a lot of other missionaries. When we were leaving the mission office to go back to Playa Del Carmen I hugged my ex-companion Elder Kenison and realized that it was going to be my last time seeing him in the mission. He will be going back to Utah on the 18th of this month.


 In this ward I really love the members here, they are really good people and are willing to help us in the Work, we will be definitely working a lot with the members in the following weeks to find more people to teach.


Sorry for not having to much to say about the week!

Elder Stabenow

Elder Stabenow and Elder Kennison