Week 86

        This week on Elder Silva's mission it was awesome. We had the baptism of Guadalupe! She's great, she is friends with Paola who got baptized three weeks ago. We found Guadalupe when we were teaching Paola and and told about sharing the blessings she's received with others. She asked how she'd know who to invite to share the gospel with and we told her that the only person that knows this is our Heavenly Father. He knows all his of children's thoughts, desires and situations that they are going through. 
        So we invited her to pray and ask God to put someone in her way so that she can share her testimony. She said that she was going to do it and that she would contact us if anything happens. Guess what happened the next day she went to school? Yup, her prayer was answered; it was at 9:30 am when I received a phone call from Paola. She said "I can't believe it I can't believe it, I have someone that wants to hear you guys and she is right her next to me¨ and it was Guadalupe! 
         That's how we found Guadalupe but that's not all. While we were teaching her, we invited her to be baptized and she said ¨Yes¨ but she then said ¨wait my parents will never let me get baptized in your church¨ and we asked her why not and she said "because my parents are super Catholic and they will never let me.¨ We asked her if she really wanted to do this and if she wanted to receive the Holy Ghost in her life? She said ¨Yes," then we told her ¨have Faith and everything is going to be fine." She agreed and that same day she called her parents and her parents said yeah it's fine if is something that she wants then it's ok! She was speechless and started to cry because she never thought her parents would support her decision. 
         Last week Guadalupe had a lot of trails because random people would start talking to her and tell her that her that she was making bad decision. We told her not to worry and to always remember the feeling that she felt during church and during the lessons. This last Saturday was her baptism and she was extremely happy with the decision she made! I know that our Heavenly Father answers our prayers like Paola's prayer was answered that day. And they are answered so that other people can be blessed like Guadalupe!

Week 85

           This week on Elder Silva's mission it was amazing! We had another baptismal service for the Serrano family . So this family is amazing because they have showed a lot of faith in our Savior. We found this family when one day I was walking with my companion and he said "hey look at that family, lets contact them." The family was already passing us and I was thinking it would be a little awkward walking back to talk to them. But I said "whatever let's do it!"
          So we did it and talked to them, the dad agreed to meet with us and gave us their address. We didn't really think much of it until the day we went to their house to teach them. The dad wasn't there because he is part of the military so we were only able to teach the mom and her children. They loved the lesson and the mom was just really happy and we asked her why? She said that her husband has never let any religious people pass by her house and that the day we contacted her she was in shock when he gave us their address. She actually asked her husband if he was sick or if he was ok because she just couldn't believe it. 
          After passing many times we still haven't had the opportunity to really talk the dad because he's always doing military work, but he supports his family going to church and that we teach them. I'm confident that the Lord softened that dad's heart so that we can share this great message with his family, now we just need the opportunity to share it with him! :D     

Week 84

           This week on Elder Silva's mission it was spectacular! Freddy was baptized this last Saturday and the baptismal service was great. We had a total of nine investigadores assist the baptism! Freddy is a very special guy that lived a tough life, when we found him he actually went to church by himself with the help of a brother named Mandujano. So Freddy is renting one of Mandujanos apartments and studying here in Tenosique. The crazy thing is that he was listening to missionaries where he used to live and he had heard almost all the lessons. While we were teaching Freddy we set a baptismal service for him about 2 weeks ago but sadly that Monday his father passed away and he was just really sad and he left for a week. 

           While he was gone we kept in contact with him and the next week he came back. He still was a little sad about his father's death so we taught him the plan of salvation. It helped him a lot understand God's plan that he had for Freddy and his father. So he decided to keep on moving forward and following our Savior by making a covenant with our Heavenly Father through Baptism!