June 1, 2020

Hi Family and Friends, 

This week was really good. 

We had a really good week for finding and teaching so it went really quick. We found an old area book on paper and started calling people that hadn't been contacted in years. It was really awesome too because the first person we called off it answered and we set up a time to call and have a lesson with him. It's been a really good effective way of finding people. Our mission president gave us permission for us to go street contacting again. We can’t go into people's houses yet but we can walk around and talk to people which is awesome. We’re excited to start doing that again. One thing that's kinda weird about it is we’re actually talking to people face to face again. Instead of over the phone. 

We had our Zone Conference this week. It was really good and we learned a lot. We had a couple of trainings for Facebook and making quality post etc... One of the things that stood out to me the most from Zone conference was a training about self reflection. They mentioned something called “The Spot”. Someday I'm going to be in the airport on my way home and I'm going to be looking back at my mission and thinking if I did my best. When I come home I want to know that I did my best and wasn’t lazy or anything. 

This week we were able to extend a baptism invitation to a person we are teaching named Magaly. It was really cool and she has been progressing a lot. She is reading The Book of Mormon a lot and is almost done with it. She is set to be baptized this month on the 27th. We are really excited for her.

We had our first District council in person this week as well. It was really fun because we left Eagle Pass and traveled to Carrizo Springs where the sister missionaries are. It's about 40 minutes from us so we had a bit of a drive.  

We also had a devotional with Sister Becky Craven this week. She is in the young women's presidency. It was really cool because the mission could ask questions. She talked about that this is the Lord's mission and not ours. One of my favorite things she said was "Effort leads to Energy". If we try and are putting in our best effort we are going to be more enthusiastic and bring that energy. 

We got our mid transfer transfer news before the mission splits next month. Me and Elder Johnson are staying together and Elder Gardanier is going to San Antonio. Elder Wadsworh is going to be our new district leader. I'm not really surprised I'm not leaving because I just got here. 

I hope y’all are having a great week. I love y’all and can’t wait to talk to ya’ll again next week.

Sorry I don’t have any pictures for this week.