We went to a small town this week. - Mon 6/19, 4:10 PM

My new pancho

Dear friends and family,

We went to a small town called Real de Catorce for P-day today. It was really cool. I got some cool stuff, and we had some cool lessons this week. 

I was reading in 1 John for my personal study this week, and I learned a lot about the atonement. It was a really good book. And I just feel so grateful for the atonement in my life. I know it is a real thing. Not just something that we talk about in the church to sound impresive. It is a critical part in God's plan for us. I know and testify of that.

Love you guys a ton!

Love,

Elder DuBose

p.s.  

The three whitest mexicans I have seen 

  My gringos,

A cockfighting ring  

A bull fighting ring.

Four of the elders in the branch.

 Some selfies. 

 A really big hole in the ground. It was at least 10 seconds deep. 

 Love y'all

Ummmm... So not a whole late happened this week. Except... - Mon 6/12, 4:15 PM

Dear friends and family,

So, not a whole lot happened this week. Except we just ended the long drought of baptisms here in Matehuala, San Luis Potosi! And we didn't even have to do a whole lot, we basically just found the kid. His parents are recent converts, and he had been going to church with them and had had all of the lessons with the missionaries. We just re passed everything, and he was so excited. 

The gospel is true. It changes lives, and it will change your life if you will let it. I have seen that a few times out here, mostly in my own life, but also in the lives of the people that I have been teaching. This is the gospel of Jesus Christ restored again in the earth! And it is the most wonderful news that you can hear. The heavens are opened, and revelation is guiding the church of Jesus Christ here in the Earth. I bear testimony of that. 

I love you guys, and thanks for all the prayers.

See y'all next week!

Love,

Elder DuBose

p.s.  

Elder Holdaway

  (if you move the two pictures back and forth really fast, it looks like he is opening and closing his eyes. Haha),

A cool car sticker that we found 

(If you like the Avengers)

 Miguel de Leon right before the Branch President baptized him.

More pictures at his Baptism.

What an adventure was today! - Mon 6/5, 4:29 PM

A view of the Valley that we are in.

Dear friends and family, 

Today was an awesome P-Day! We got to go to a little town in our district called Villa de la Paz and it was beautiful. Like really beautiful. We could see basically all of the county that we are in from up there. 

We bought our food, washed our clothes and headed out to find a ciber so I could write you guys. I wrote my letter to the mission president, and went to write all of you and ... the internet went down. Elder Cornejo walked for like an our to every single ciber in our neighboorhood and everyone had the same problem. No internet. We were about to go back to the house and instead just kept walking, and we found one ciber that no one had told us about. And hear we are. 

Now, that might be kind of silly, but that was an awesome answer to a prayer. I know that God hears our prayers, even the smaller ones, and he will answer them. 

Love you guys,

Elder DuBose

p.s. 

Some modern art

  An old arena (where they made chickens fight to the death).

 Where they kept the chickens.

 More pictures! 

(including some surealist art and 

a super torta)

 I hope the pictures turned out good. I'm not the best at taking them. 

This is going to be fun! - Mon 5/29, 4:18 PM

Dear friends and family,

It's hard to believe that another week has gone by, but I'm writing all of you right now, and I guess that means that it is monday again. Haha

Everything is going well here in Matuehuala. We've just been looking for people to teach. And we have found a few. One is an old investigator of the elders before they closed the area. His wife is a less active, but wants to come back to church, and he has been investigating the church. We meet with him on Sunday, and gave a lesson about gifts that you can recieve from the Spirit. And then we tied it in to how that God wants to give him a big gift. The gift of the Holy Ghost. We extended the baptisimal invataion and he accepted. He's going to keep on studying it out to make sure, but he told us that he believes the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints is the church of Jesus Christ restored again in the earth. He also believes that the Book of Mormon is true.

And, just like our investigator, I know that it is true. I know that God, because He loves us, has once again restored the Church of His Son, and all things pertaining unto to it, to the earth again. This restored Church, Gospel, Priesthood authority, and all the ordaninces we need to return to the presence of God are found here, in the Chruch of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. I know that this is true, and I testify of it, in the name of our Savior, Jesus Christ, Amen.

Love you guys a ton!

Love,

Elder DuBose

p.s. i hope the pictures make sense. I couldn't quite see what they were, soo... Good Luck!

Adios, Oriente, Hola Matehuala- Mon 5/22, 3:58 PM

My last selfie with Elder Boyer as we left the house.

 Dear Friends and family,

This was a little bit of a bitter sweet week for me. So, ummm..., we found a golden investigator back in Oriente. We taught him one lesson on Saturday, he accepted the baptismal invitation, and Elder Boyer and I were doing awesome. Then the zone leaders called later that night, and said, "We have your transfers." and I got moved to Matehuala (you might have to spell check me on that) to reopen an area with an Elder Cornejo. It's going to be awesome! 

We got here this morning at about 10, and got all our stuff moved into our house, and then we just kind of walked around. There are two branches of the church here right now, but Elder Cornejo and I have plans to change that. It's a lot smaller of a town than San Luis was, but I feel like I'm going to like it a ton. We've meet a few of the members and they are extremely helpful.

I just love being out here.

Love, 

Elder DuBose

p.s. My last selfie with the elders of Oriente (theyre all still there, if you want to go visit them)  

 and 

My first selfie with Elder Cornejo.