Hola Familia!

Another dope week out here, but right now I´m bummed because they just transfered me from the best area/ward in the mission, Insurgentes. So right now I`m in Cuernavaca waiting for them to tell me where my next area will be and with whom. Élder Amancio will be headed back to Iguala with the elder that`ll finish his training. Yair will be baptized this week and after church yesterday he said ´estoy seguro´!!!!!

Yesterday, was tight because a bunch of investigators came to church and Gospel Principles was full. Always a good feeling especially when you gone through some sundays in the mission without the gospel principles class because no one´s there. Anyway, I taught the class on Spiritual Gifts. The gifts that we receive from our father in heaven are amazing. I think everyone has atleast one spiritual gift promised in their patriarchal blessing like faith, obedience, or healing, but what´s amazing is that if we are willing, we can receive all the gifts that God has for us. In the mission, for example, I´ve been able to witness the power of the gift of tongues and the interpretation of tongues.

Well, the cyber is about to close so I gotta wrap it up, but I love you all and hope you are well! Viva México!

Love,

Elder Tucker 

Multi Zone Iguala

Hola Familia

Another good week out here in the México Cuernavaca Mission. And yes, everyone is stoked that Mexico beat 

Germany yesterday in their first world cup match in Russia. Before the game, everyone here was certain that 

Mexico wouldn´t be able to stack up against the reigning champs, but now everyone says they`re gonna win 

it all hahaha.

Anyway, it was a pretty normal week in the Insurgentes Ward with Élder Amancio, my dominican son. Saturday, 

we had our ward rescue activity where we visited menos activos and other people with the members and the 

rest of the missionaries in our zone. I have to say it was the best rescue activity I´ve participated in so far in my 

mission, so many people showed up and it turned out to be really effective because ward conference yesterday 

was bien llena. The members are awesome.

In Tuesday´s visit with Yair, he shared with us a pretty dope experience. While in church, he began to think about 

how good his life is all the blessings he received. He said ¨I´ve got a job, good family, friends, girlfriend, I´m 

studying well, what more could I ask for? I´m not really in need of a church, and yet, I feel good in the chapel 

and I feel right. And that feeling stays with me throughout the whole week.¨ !!!!!!!! The Holy Ghost is beginning 

to testify to Yair that the Church is true through attendance! Best feeling to hear your investigator´s progression.

We found a bunch of new people this week that we´ll be working with.

The weather has been fantastic lately with all this rain I love it.

Hope everyone´s doing great, keep writing me and asking questions. Sometimes I dont know what to say!

Love,

Élder Tucker

ps. I recommend this book to everyone, especially back home! Our Search for Hapiness by M. Russell Ballard

Hola Familia,

Another good week out here in the México Cuernavaca Mission! Élder Amancio and I have been working really well together and the ward has been supporting us like crazy so hopefully we´ll be able to start seeing some more baptisms soon. 

One of our most promising investigators right now is named Yaír, he just turned 18 years old and his girlfriend is a member of the ward. At first, he seemed a little bit pressured to listen to us by his girlfriend´s family, but recently we´ve been able to meet with him personally and see progress in him and honestly, he´s a really impressive joven. This dude works and studies all the time; Saturday nights, he works the night shifts and gets off Sunday morning just two hours before church! And he still is one of the first to arrive to the capilla! We´ve been helping him to pray and read in the Book of Mormon and we just hope he can be baptized soon, and not only for his girlfriend, but for himself because he would be such a wonderful addition to the Church.

There´s also Maurina who is always golden in the lessons but has yet to come to church in these last two weeks that we´ve met with her. She´s basically a single mother though because her husband ¨´está allá´ AKA working in the US so atleast it´s understandable because it´s hard to get kiddos ready for church early sunday morning.

From what I´ve been hearing about AZ, I think the weathers about the same over here in Iguala, hot hot hot! Hahaha

A couple of videos that I´ve seen recently have been on my mind: One is called the Anonymous Hero, but it´s not by the Church. It´s about this humble man in Thailand that does a bunch of friendly, silent acts of service everyday. The narrator says something to the effect of ´This man will never be famous. You´ll never see him on tv, or in the movies. He´ll never be amazingly rich. But, he does his part to be good and to make the world a better place. Be more like him.´ Kinda reminds me of Man in the Mirror by MJ. Anyway, the other is of The Life of Jesus Christ videos where Jesus gives the parable of the two sons who were asked to work in their father´s field. The first refused, but eventually repented and worked. The second anxiously answered yes, but ended up not doing anything. The first was the one that did the will of his father although at first he didn{t want to. How beautiful is it that if we truly repent, the Lord forgets all the bad that we have done and gives us another chance to serve Him and be mad instruments in His hands. I know that the Atonement of Jesus Christ is real and that it is for all of us. I know that we can turly repent and be made clean of our sins.

No pics unil next week, I need to buy a new memory, sorry! I love you all! Cuídense!!!

Love,

Élder Tucker

¡2 Bautismos! Oscar Hernández Galindo y una sorpresa

Hola Familia!

Another excellent week here in Insurgentes with my dominican son, Élder Amancio!

Wednesday we unexpectadly got a call from our beloved bishop saying a boy in the ward had just turned 8 and needed to be baptized. So instead of having 1 baptism this week as planned we got to have 2!...not really because Wednesday´s baptism was a nño inscrito, but anyway, my trainee, Élder Amancio got to baptize him for his first baptism in the mission so that was cool.

Saturday, I was priviledged to baptize our investigator, Oscar, and Élder Amancio confirmed him on Sunday! The baptismal program was great, the primary sang and welcomed Oscar into the ward and after it all, the Spirit touched Oscar enough that he began to cry! The Gospel had already helped him mature so much in the little time I´ve had to know him, and his mom, Monica, loves having us over. We´ve started to visit with Oscar´s older less active older sister and her nonmember boyfriend, but it´s a bit frustrating because the boyfriend is genuinely interested, but the hermana has turned atheist and totally kills the vibe in our visits. Honestly, if people would just look at who the apostles and president of the Church are right now and realize that they´re a million times too wise and intelligent to be tricked into believing in a God and a church organized by a young farm boy. This Gospel is true! Faith isn´t ignorance or blindness.

Anyway, I hope everyone is good! Love you all! Love when you write!!! Until next week.

Love,

Élder Tucker