Week 12 11/18/19 Week of Miracles

I wish I had more time to write but changes were this week and man were they needed for me. Anyways last week all in all was awesome.  Just tons of miracles.

We almost got robbed and instead they confessed they were drugies and wanted to change.  They asked for our help, since they realized, we were messengers of God. It was a really cool experience, super spiritual.  Also walking and contacting randomly when I felt prompted to go up this random street.  We started knocking and one after another, were Catholics, we don't want your message. Side note - we were contacting by asking if we could sing a hymn to them and then offer a prayer to bless their family. We finally got to a door that would allow us to sing. I offered the prayer, in the best Spanish I could muster. She then said thanks and wanted to learn more. She told us that her mom is having lots of mental problem and she's been praying for help. She said we were the answer to her prayers. It was really special and I gave her a big hug because she was crying.  Just lots of little awesome experiences this week.

Zone Conference was awesome, just love our mission president and I know he loves each and every one of us.

Okay also the greatest miracle of all was I was transferred to a new area called Castarano. It's the areas of the apes(assistant to the President). I'm with an awesome new missionary and we are going to hit it super hard this week and all of this change. Everyone has told me I hit the jackpot with this area and with my new comp. I basically am in the best area in the mission (missionary work wise) and have the best person to finish out my training. I don't know what I did to deserve this but I'm so thank for the trust of the lord and mission president to work here with this missionary.

I'm so happy with my last change and everything that I learned and experienced and so ready for this new one.

yo amo todo de ustedes

Love Elder Corbett

Hasta luego

Por Padres y siblings. I had the chance to see president today and he said that I need to tell you guys he loves you for raising me right.  He's just happy to have me here in the mission and to thank ya'll for everything you have done to help me be the person I am today. Thank you for all your love and prayers. 

Love your favorite Elder Austin James Corbett

Week 11 11/11/19 ay, We out here in Mexico City

This week has been rough to say the least. We had a Ton of citas set up this week and a bunch of them dropped when we got there. We've seen lots of miracles here though One of the inactive members that hasn't gone to church in 6ish years attended this week, that was really cool. Also we were lost in one area while searching for a house. We went up and down this road and then on our way back up realizing we were going the right way, a man called us over. He wasn't there before and we have no idea where he came from. He called us over and asked us to come teach him again and that he wants to learn more, it was super cool, brief but awesome. 

The buses here are crazy let me tell ya. You thought kiosk sales people were bad image them getting on your bus and selling candy and popsicles. I almost always reject kindly (except the popsicles). I was contacting the guy I was sitting next to and the guy tried giving me one and I rejected and said no gracias with a smile. He then looked at me with shock and then got in front of everyone on the bus and started quoting the bible and saying stuff like how can a person with the name of Christ be so rude. (i didn't fully understand) then at the end the guy next to me bought 3. He gave one to my comp and me. It was a weird experience but awesome. Then today he got on our bus again and he gave us one lil candy for free. I'm super confused. But ya busses in Mexico man are wack 

Mosiah 3:19 this scripture is my favorite, read it. I learned more about it this week in a speech by Elder Bednar about it. I just invite everyone to research more about the part of becoming a saint through the atonement. reflect on the question. How can the atonement enable me to be more of a saint and do good. Its helped me a lot this week and will help me a lot to come. 

I hope everyone has a great week and just enjoys life.   Love you all! 

Hasta luego,   

Elder Corbett

 The sky one day this week

 A big ol 6-7 story Mall with a Walmart in it and a giant Christmas Tree.  Living life Big!

 Living my best life - eatin some good Dairy Freaking Queen

 Elder Stokes, my District Leader - Love this guy!

me partying hard in our courtyard 

Week 10 11/4/19 cold showers and dead folks

   

Yup so this week I had a ton of awesome things happen.   I don't have time to type them all but just know they happened like a guy tried selling us weed. I gave my first priesthood blessing in Spanish. I got to talk with president twice. Did a quick appointment with a dentist while she worked on a patient. you know just awesome things happened. 

Also just a side note the whole city dressed up as skeletons for my birthday and scary people. It was great. Everyone here is just awesome that's all I got to say. Mexico may traffic a lot of drugs but they are so nice to you in the streets. Except for one dude who saw us and started yelling random stuff at us, super angrily.  That guy has to be America. 

Our investigators are progressing very nicely. We found like 3 new ones this week too. maria de la paz committed to baptism. She was so reluctant at first until we explained she could live with her husband again. Also My fav investigator had a really cool experience with prayer where he felt hands in his chest and his back giving him peace and comfort. We also taught a catholio pastor and we testified a bunch about the Book of Mormon. He said he wants to find the truth and he said he's doubting his current faith because of this book. I can't wait till he gets to 1nefi 14. we got a second visit planned. lots of teaching this week it's been great

good scripture is 2 nefi 29 - it talks about why we need both the Book of Mormon and the biblia. I've only used it once here cause I'm too scared to totally destroy all these Catholics.  I used it on members to remind them why the Book of Mormon is so important to read.

Anyways, love ya'll so much!  Thanks for all the birthday wishes hope everyone is doing great.

Love,

Elder Corbett

Week 9 10-28-19 2 months (but who's counting)

Past week has been crazy and this week is going to be even crazier. This week we taught a family, mostly grandma, she was a reference from a member we ate with and she came with us immediately after the food. She asked us as we walked over if we worship idols and we were like "no of course not". To no surprise when we walked in there was a beautifully decorated Shine of Jesus on the cross and another statue of mother Mary. (Not uncommon here) It had dad's favorite icicle lights surrounding it. The family was crazy just being not very nice and yelling. The member trying to accuse her of being a sinner because she had idols. We had to switch plans of doing Leccion in to Love at home(not a set leccion). We sang some songs, taught some things about families. The spirit was the best. We left not knowing if we helped at all but we set another appointment. When we came back and everything was just so much more chill.  We felt the spirit so much more the next time. She said she's felt more peace in her life since our last visit. It was awesome to see the change. 

The gospel is true. Book of Mormon is true. Y'all should read it daily. Its written for all times, not just for old time, its written for our time today. It contains the whole truth of the gospel. Everything you need to know about the gospel is in that book . It can answer every question of the soul if you live its principles with exactness. Exact obedience brings miracles. Love you all and hope everything's great in the promised land. 

Ps I love you so much mom, and dad love ya'll. 

thanks for all the loving and kindness you showed me even when I was a terrible rebellious son before I left. I feel like I was always trying to change you guys even though ya'll are doing great and know what you need way more then I will ever know. Hope you guys are still improving each day and learning more about the gospel and having experiences with it. I love this gospel and the Atonement of Christ that I can be forgiven for all the stupid things I've done. I've definitely felt it this past week working in my life. love you!

Week 8 10-21-19 week two in the field!

This week was good. I lead my first lesson, it was awesome. I felt the spirit guiding me so much,  it was awesome. We also started to teach this sweet old lady. Her sister is a member and she's super sweet too. We taught her about the restoration of the gospel and she cried when we read Santiago 1:5 with her. She said she needs to pray more to know what the truth is, the spirit was so strong. ( she already believes that José smith is a prophet and she's been reading from a quad I guess) Idk what's stopping here from fully committing.  She then just kind of randomly opened the book of Mormon to a part where it talks about how the bible and the book of Mormon working together in 1 nefi. It was super cool. God was definitely guiding her and us as we taught her. 

Funny story though we were talking to a lady with a fruit stand and then a guy with no legs sitting on a skate board rode by, using his arm to propel him. No one batted an eye and I was just a little dumb founded. I just checked our mission map and I'm in an zone called Tacubaya. its apparently one of the closest zones you can get to the center of the city. if you know me you know I hate cities, so I'm happy I'm am doing this as my first area

Love you all and hope everything is well in Zion. The field out here is definitely white and ready to harvest. Have a good week everyone. Hasta luego (Hasta 91 samanas luego)

Week 7 Mexico city - the city with dog poop everywhere 10/14/19

okay guys…. this place is absolutely crazy. I got my new comp. he's awesome. He was born and raised in Texas so knows perfect english but was raised in a Mexican family so he's bilingual. personal translator. The mission is so not what they trained me to do in the ccm. (man I miss that place) Just lots of contacting random people and getting lost. were opening an area meaning were both news to the area. lots of Great people to talk too though. lots of people though that are super confused about what this life is about. but that's why I'm here. Teach the Good Word. I'm basically dead in the city but like the getteho area where there dog poop everywhere and tons of awesome taco shops with great food. place is hard but definitely awesome.

anyways Two miracles happened. When we showed up to our area we had a guy run up and help us with our bags. later talked to him in his tendia and answered some questions about the pamphlet the other missionaries gave him. really cool guy. named Eduardo. We started going in to is shop every night before going home so I could practice my Spanish. we share a message too every time. We invited him to church on Friday just kind of out of habit and he was like maybe. then Saturday night we didn't visit him and he called us asking when church was again. THAT WAS THE BET FEELING EVER. He attended with us the next morning and felt the spirit. He also said he'd  prepare to be baptized in nov6. awesomest thing ever. Our first fetch.

miracle two. Ill start this ne off by saying m having not the best time adjusting to real missionary life. it's rough out here. the smells, some of the food, the language is a bit different. ( a lot) Friday we were finishing up at a members house who fed us a bunch of veggies. almost threw up but my comp when she wasn't looking took all of the gross ones. after all that and not understanding a Word of the lesson I was depressed. What am I doing here. how am I supposed to get lost in the work if I'm getting lost in is the words these people are saying . at the end of all this the mission president called. A voice from the heaven in the voice of a Texan. He gave me reassuring words about My Spanish and other loving words and then hung ups. brief moment in time but it was great. we left and then the best thing ever happen. It started pouring rain. *feel the rain on your face*.I loved every second of it  God answered all my prayers that day and showed forth his hand so could so I could continue in faith. Exactly what I needed.

Gods real everyone. the church is true. The TRUE gospel OF Christ is restored. love ya'll and until next week.

hasta luego,

Elder Corbett