July 31,
Hey everyone! Wow I've already been out here for 4 months. Crazy. This is my final week of training! Also crazy. On Sunday night we find out who our new companions will be and if I'm going to a new area, Monday we pack everything up, and Tuesday we have the changes. We'll see what happens.
The heat is unbearable. I am gonna be really jealous of my family in Flaming Gorge this week.
The work here in Sabinas Hidalgo is difficult. Finding people to teach isn't the problem. The city is small enough that everyone has heard about the "Mormon Church" and it has a bad rep. It seems that with every person we talk to when we tell them who we are they say "Oh you go to that church that is always empty". It's a sad truth. People in Sabinas look at our church as not all that great because no one goes. So when we invite people to come they say yes to be polite but never actually come. two weeks ago we only had 7 members in the chapel. It is sad here because the members just won't do anything about the situation here. They are always talking bad about each other. There is basically no priesthood and only really 2 complete families that attend. Most of the members that attend are women and almost all of them are single or divorced. There has been word that the mission will change again shortly and the missionaries might be taken out of Sabinas all together or it will be turned into part of the mission as a district where a missionary can be called as the branch president.
You can find and baptize 20 people but if the members are not there to be their friends and to love them and visit hem, then you can bet that 99 percent of those new converts will go inactive.
I hope that mine and Elder Peñas influence here in Sabinas will spark a real change.
I love you all! Hasta luego!
Elder Hoyt
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