Elder Graham LaBass - Oaxaca Mexico Mission 2025-2027

  WHATS UP GUYS,  How's it going, back at it again, puerto escondido, shaka-cada-fradashadamalakada  This week was crazy, I don't think we've ever devoted more time to finding people ever before lol. Every day we spent almost 6 hours to straight finding and we found like 5 people lol. SUUUUUPER grateful for that but... for Mexico that's kind of not a lot. But these 5 people all have crazy stories and are, at least on some level, searching for truth.  We ended up resorting to a game of chess and if we won, they had to listen. Ofc por el poder de dios ganamos, but they didn't want to listen still jajajajaja.  Super short email, but I would love to share this quote from an apostle of the lord, Jefferey R. Holland. We all go through hard things in life every freaking day. I'm not the first or the last to admit that it is exhausting. Weather it's pressure to preform, emotional confusion and trauma, or some other roadblock that makes and already difficult life, ha...

   Whats up guys, coming at you from the coast of Oaxaca, aka world famous surfing spot Puerto Escondido  I learned a lot this week. This area is super different and difficult from what I'm used to, it's almost like an entirely different mission lol. Finding is extremely hard because everyone here is either a borracha, a tourist, or super active in a random church. It's crazy the different denominaciones of people here, we've taught Mexicans in Spanish, Germans in English, and a French person in spenglish. It's also really funny when all the natives don't expect us to speak Spanish so they'll talk bad about us and we just laugh and start talking to them. So yeah, we are working really hard but not having too much success. Nonetheless, we are still going at it.  On intercambios me and this elder named Elder Monte went outside to take pics of the moon and ended up locking ourselves outside of the house. So for like 4 hours I was climbing up and down the house ...

 Whats up guys que dice la vida, this week was lowky crazy. I got moved to a new area and it's so close to the beach so I'm so pumped! I'm now in Zecatela, PUERTO ESCONDIDO!!!! That's right, I'm at a world famous surfing spot, this is SO LIT.  This area is massive so it's been a little hard to go from 200 people to 20000 people but I'm relearning  everything and it's awesome cuz I get to strengthen the things I struggled with AND THE OCEAN IS RIGHT THERE. The couple we married in Xochistlan finally got put on date right when I left but that's ok cuz the wife is getting baptized next week!!! The members here are super old, pretty sure they all retired so sacrament meeting went from chasing 80 kids around the capilla to listening to an old guy give wisdom over the pulpit... but not the entertaining kind we have in general conference. Either way it's gonna be lit. We definitely have our work cut out for us because right now we don't have too man...