Elder Todd Grilliot's Mission Blog

3 things. this week i´ve learned about how it is a great thing to be different.  I´ve learned how to organize myself better and think about things better as a missionary. and i´ve made a wonderful soup that my companion has lovingly named, "todd soup" he loves it and so do i. Elder Grilliot

man let me sum up this week by just saying it was an adventure. I´ve seen a lot of miracles this week, from really prepared people just appearing out of thin air, to investigators receiving answers in the form of dream, and me and my companion working out our differences and becoming good friends. This week i learned about being more direct with people. sometimes it´s really necessary. We had companion (exchanges) this week with the zone leaders and i learned a lot from working with them. Elder Higgins is really direct. I think i can be way too passive with people when they are goofing up. Elder Higgins taught me how i can tell people things that they need to hear if i do it with love. I really love the agency of people. It is a very beautiful thing to help someone accomplish a goal that they want to accomplish. but it is a really ugly thing to push and force someone to do something that they don´t want to do. I´ve learned to really love helping people make decisions and then help...

this is the big email that you have all been waiting for. this week was a wild one. like on the scale of wild weeks it was really rather wild. my comp doesn´t speak english and i can tell that my english is getting a little rusty again. it just feels weird. That´s a good thing though, with elder meade we spoke a lot of english and it made my spanish a little rusty. Also being with a latino comp makes me realize that i still have a lot to improve in my spanish, being with a white comp makes me think that my spanish is better than it is haha, elder zamora does not speak very clearly, and he also speaks really quickly and uses a lot of slang, it´s a good reminder that i can´t slack off on my language study. interviews this week we had interviews with pres barret, i love that man. Our president is a very careful, calculated man, he thinks things through, and so the counsel that he gives is always gold. bro khariman man last night we took a bishopric member to a lesson with u...

okay, I’m short on time, like I was last time, hey I’ll be short in describing the miracles that I’ve seen in these weeks. Me and elder Zamora are rocking it in Senderos, this is my new area and it is struggling, they are going to turn it into a branch they told us, but we will do our best and I really want to love this area like I did with Centenaro, man Centenaro was the best. This week I really really felt the power of God. like for about a week I just felt the spirit super strong nearly all the time. My prayers were super meaningful. A cool experience, we are really struggling to find people to teach, and I prayed and I felt inspired that God had prepared someone for us to teach and that we would find him in a specific colony of our area, and that night we were over there and me and elder Zamora sat ourselves down to talk a bit because he wasn´t feeling that great, and this drunk guy comes up to us and he asks us to come over and talk to him when he is sober, we take his add...

hey guys, in short, i´m super happy. i´m not bragging, but  i´m really happy. here are some wonderful photos from the mexico place.

I think i´m leaving centenario hey elder meade is going to get a son today in the mission. So we will be in a trio for one week and then i will probably leave centenario, that makes me pretty sad because i have really loved centenario, this has been a special place to me, I´ve really had a lot of joy here.  Today marks my 8 month mark in the mission, honestly it has gone super fast.  We found some really wonderful people this week and made a lot of progress with our investigators, really exciting things are going on in this area and the ward is so awesome. sigh. It will be hard to leave, but i feel confident that the lord knows what he is doing and has prepared a work for me in another area.  I learned something about repentance this week Teaching the gospel of jesus christ is my favorite thing, like faith, repentance, and baptism, and as a missionary, you talk with alot of people about the same stuff alot, but everytime we teach it, the spirit teaches me s...

it snowed this week! it hasn´t snowed here in 20 years, but this week it got really cold and it snowed all through the night on friday.  we live above this member lady and she is really awesome and kind and she has a grand daughter who is 5 years old and her name is abby and abby´s christmas wish this year was that she would see snow, and she was soo excited and the hermana made us tacos for breakfast and we played in the snow with her granddaughter and we snowball fought and she made a little snowman, she is super cute. she sang jinglebells in english and did a little dance, all the snow had melted by like 10 o clock, but they still canceled school.  Mexicans are a little superstitious about some health things, the bishop gave us doctor masks because he said that when you breath in cold air it goes to your lungs and gives you pnemonia, and i´m like, "dude it´s like 40 degrees, i don´t need a doctor mask". but i apreciated the thought.  more cristmas miracles, we...