Elder Hirsch Mission Emails

  Last night we set an alarm for 4:30am. The reason is, a few days before, we'd been talking with Hermano Serrano, (the absolute machine who's been bishop in like 4 different wards, district president, and seems to think he's still a missionary), and we asked him if he needed any help in his corn field. He said yes! And that he's going early in the morning. So, we went to sleep that night with much anticipation, but instead of waking up to an alarm, I woke up to my companion on the phone with Hermano Serrano, who was already grumpily waiting outside. We rushed to get dressed, went downstairs, and jumped in his car.   I thoroughly enjoyed driving away from the city. As we passed through the small towns scattered around Apizaco on the way to his field, I watched as the dormant volcano Malinche drew nearer, and enjoyed listening to my companion talk to Hermano Serrano in the front seat. On arrival at his personal corn field, the hermano gav...

  Hey everybody!   Apizaco has always had at least one baptism per month. It doesn't matter who the missionaries assigned here are, the Lord gives one baptism, usually the child of a less-active.  A few weeks ago we found out that a young adult named Dulce, who has been attending church for like a month, has not been baptised. She came to know the church because her husband, Alan, is a member. When we showed up for our first lesson, we learned that she had actually been in teaching with the missionaries for a long time, but never got baptized because she always moved. So we set a baptismal date for the next week and got teaching! She already had a pretty good understanding of the doctrine, and a testimony of the Book of Mormon, so teaching went pretty smooth.   The only problem was, we heard from a few different members that she can't get baptized because they are living together, but aren't actually married. So we immediately addre...