Jacob Max—Mexico City North Mission

  Hello everyone, this week had some unexpected, but unforgettable moments. I've entered my last transfer. I'm with Elder De La Cruz. (My second comp with that name) he's an awesome guy from the Dominican Republic, I've known him for about a year and I'm glad he's my last companion.  This Wednesday  we had our zone conference, now, being quite frank, zone conference has never been to me the most exciting missionary experience ever created, however I quite believe this was the best zone conference of my entire mission. It was my last zone conference, and 8 other elders and I, gave our testimonies. The highlight of the conference was the fact that it was presided by Elder Hugo Montoya of the quorum of the 70. He's the great-grandson of Rafael Monroy who was a martyr for the church in México during the revolution (look up his story, it's pretty awesome) him and his wife gave us a really good conference and said some really awesome things and told some reall...

Yeah I'm still here, I haven't written all that much, but I feel like this week was somewhat interesting. Anyway. On Tuesday after our district council we had exchanges. I was with Elder Govea, who’s from my generation and also has 22 months. We’re all getting old here. He’s really awesome. We went to eat with members and after we went to a members house to help with a service project. The project was to help him sweep his roof. His roof though was made out of like 40 year old roof sheets, and one step on those bad boys would surely send one smashing through the ceiling. The member is a pretty old man, but he had me help him but some wooden planks on the roof so we could stand on them and not fall through. I really wasn’t sure if it was gonna work, but the old guy started doing it like it was nothing so I had no choice but to follow him. It was an interesting service project. Afterwards, we zoomed away to go to a lesson with our friends Monseratt, her daughter Aislin, and her m...