Week 48

HOLA HOLA!!!

 

 

Hey everyone! I hope yall están bien because man I've had a great week again! I bet yall are just dying to know the transfer news huh? I feel like I said that every time... Because it's true!! This time, they did things differently... They also sent my parents my transfer news so they already know! Anyways, I will be going to Elko to be the Zone Leader over there with my old Zone Leader Élder Rawlings! I am so excited to go over there and be companions with him. When we went on exchanges man I loved hitting the grind with him! I'll still be speaking Spanish but now I'm making a trek to the other side of the mission! It's a solid 4 hours from Carson city and only a 3 hour drive to home! I'm one of the Zone Leaders for the biggest zone in the mission, so I'm very excited. On Wednesday we take a van and we all drive over to Elko so it's going to be so much fun

 

 

This week was one full of reflection. I had a very certain feeling that I was leaving Carson City (and I was right hehehe) and I appreciated everything so much more. In a lot of contacts I seemed more bold, loving, and grateful. Then I thought, "man, why didn't I do this before?" I have always been thinking about not having any regrets on the mission and I was thinking about how I can work hard to make sure that doesn't happen. I've been extremely blessed to be able to be here and I want to make it count yanno? I definitely will not be lacking in Elko because not only have I heard it be called the, "promise Land" but because I want everyone to know how much I love this Gospel. 

 

 

We had lots of fun this week and I am sad to be leaving Élder LaDeaux. We got along very well and I'm super happy I've been able to get to know him. We had a very successful week with a great exchange. I went with Élder Young and we had this guy tell us that If we took drugs... We would be able to have our minds permanently opened. Oh boy, Nevada people am I right? It was such a funny sequence of events because right before that we totally broke his shovel and then he brought us food and Gatorade and stuff hahaha

 

 

With every transfer, I get pretty nervous. I think I get this from my Mom because I tend to get  anxious about packing, leaving a familiar place and apartment, and talking to new members and investigators. I have come to realize that change is good and I can conquer anything I put my mind to. I will miss Carson City and all my Nicaraguan friends, but God needs me somewhere else Now! It's good to remember that a lot of what I do in life eventually changes. I'll be honest, before I came out here I hated change. But now, with honest work and some rough times I can say that Change is really good! 

 

 

This week Élder LaDeaux and I will be taking out brand new missionaries for a night to show them what's up. It's taking everything in me to not do any sort of hazing. I'll share with you one of my ideas, trusting that you don't notify my Mission President. But we have the sight and sound rule when you're a missionary. What we want to do is for when they stay the night, the morning will come and they'll go to get ready. Here's the catch... The door and the shower curtain will not be there and only a sticky note with the words, "Sight and Sound" will be there. HAHAHAAHHA I'm sorry but man it's so funny just to think about! I won't do it I promise, but not too bad huh? 

 

 

Just this past Saturday we had a big latino party with all the latinos in the Reno and Carson area. Man, it was so much fun! We had lots of fun and played lots of soccer and it was also very good to see some old members I had gotten close to in Reno! One of them specifically was the Artinger family. They gave me dinner on my first day in the field and I'll never forget what she said to me, "Oh my gosh! I could give you a hug right now if I could. You look so old! Not physically... But it looks like you've learned a lot!" I felt so happy after she said that. I can claim that this far into my mission, yes I've learned a lot. I am continuing to do so because I'm human!! It was such an amazing time to see all them and obviously eat a bunch of Hispanic food. 

 

 

Sorry, this email is everywhere. I'm frantically writing this before bed because tomorrow I will be pretty busy. But man I love this work, I love my Savior, and I love my Father in Heaven. This work is the best work ever and I can't wait to be doing it for another 13 months! Forgive my lack of penmanship this week, but know that you can reach out to me!

 

 

 Mormon 9:21 - Behold, I say unto you that whoso believeth in Christ, doubting nothing, whatsoever he shall ask the Father in the name of Christ it shall be granted him; and this promise is unto all, even unto the ends of the earth