74 Week "I only love my bed and my momma...I'm sorry!!!

This past week was a bit of a rough one....it's not everyday that a missionary gets sick on his mission. It's even worse when you can't leave the house for a few days cause you can't do a whole lot except.....well...recover! But I'm feeling better and we're back on the grind so it's all good!

Here's a few things about Caborca that one should know...
1) Imagine that you are in the middle of no where in the desert, and you see a random city....That would be Caborca
2) Caborca is super famous for their world class Asparagus. There's a bunch of farms here and a ton of people work on them. We are in harvesting season right now so it's pretty hectic.
3) In case I haven't mentioned before, it's the straight desert here. So we are always having to be careful with the flying sand and dust that's in the air.
4) People say the best tortillas are from Caborca....they're good don't get me wrong....but all of Sonora will have something to say about that!

The work here has been going strong! We have been teaching many people and inviting many people to come to church. It's so hard knowing that their lives would be so much better if they turned them over to Christ, but they choose not to! People have their freedom to choose but I just always hope that they are willing to TRY and EXPERIMENT and TRUST in God. He always has our back!

Which leads me to my spiritual thought about Faith. Alma teaches us in the Book of Mormon in chapter 32 verse 27...

27 But behold, if ye will awake and arouse your faculties, even to an experiment upon my words, and exercise a particle of faith, yea, even if ye can no more than desire to believe, let this desire work in you, even until ye believe in a manner that ye can give place for a portion of my words.

The invitation is clear....exercise only a little particle of faith and that sometimes....it's only a desire to believe! That we may experiment upon the word and we will experience miracles! Experiment=Experience

That's all I have! I wanna shoutout my sister Rylee for getting into BYU!! Woohoo!! Go Cougs! And BYU beat the ZAGS BABY!!!! #Final4Bound The Gregory's will never not be crazy BYU fans!

Love you all! Have a good week!
Elder Gregory




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