Today has been crazy so I don't have a lot of time. We
left at 8 this morning and went on a bike ride with our zone. We rode to
Newport beach! It took a long time and was a good work out. It was a ton of
fun, but I am going to be really sore tomorrow!
We stopped for lunch and I met
a lady whose daughter is in Italy on her mission. That is so awesome that Dallin
got called there! He is going to do great. I can wait to hear where Michael
goes! I can't believe that Eric is leaving so soon. I know he is going to do so
awesome!
This week there was a huge stake activity called el Dia de Hispanidad.
They do it every year and a ton of people come. They had food, activities, and
dancing. It was really cool to see the Mexican culture! I love the people here.
We brought investigators and the members brought friends. We set up a
missionary booth and just went around talking to people all day. It was really
weird not having our usual missionary day.
Tomorrow is zone conference. We are
going to have a big service activity in the morning painting fences and then
going to a church building for the conference. I always look forward to the
zone conferences. As for our investigators, they are doing well. We are passing
some of them to the singles ward Elders soon and this week we are really going
to focus on finding more people to teach. Our mission leader has some really
good plans to help us out, and get the ward more involved.
Our area is like 3 times the size of the Elders, and they have been
planning on splitting it up and bringing two more missionaries in our area.
That would help us out a lot so that we would be spending less time driving
across our area to appointments.
I don't have much time left, but I am so
grateful to be out here serving a mission. It is a life changing experience and
I really love every minute of it. I am learning so much from the people and
from my companion. There are hard days when no one wants to talk to us, or days
when I have a hard time with the language, but I have really never been happier
and wouldn't change this experience for anything.
I know that the Church of
Jesus Christ has been restored to the earth and that Joseph Smith was a prophet
of God. I know that we have a living prophet today to guide us. I have seen so
many blessings in my life and in the lives of those who accept the Gospel and
am so grateful to share it with others. I know that Jesus Christ is our Savior
and that through him we can be forgiven of the mistakes we have made in this
life. I love the gospel, and I love being a missionary! Thanks for all of the
support from everyone. I love you all! :)
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