5/31/2021

Hey yall! 

This week has been super great! Transfers went super good. Valley Hi is such a great area. It's a pretty big area too! It covers a part of San Antonio, the air force base in Lackland, and a few other small cities around. My new companion is Elder Larson. So far we've had a pretty good time together. I'm finishing his training but it's all pretty normal and doesn't even feel like it. 

Before transfers I got to say goodbye to a lot of the members in Bulverde ward and got a few pictures with them as well. We stopped by Vicki's house on Tuesday and said goodbye as well. We also ended up teaching a lesson as well. She had lots of questions about the church and everything and it was pretty fun to help answer them for her. 

We were street contacting and talked to a person named Michael Jackson! He was pretty awesome actually. We talked with him about the Book of Mormon and the Church. He wasn't really interested but he told us to come back again if we were in the area and we could talk more. 

On transfer day we got to go to the air force base and get our passes. Unfortunately something weird in the system happened so we could only get a 6 day pass so we are going back this Wednesday to get a 6 month pass. The Weller family in the ward was trying to help us get the passes because to get a pass you have to have a military member sponsor you or something. 

We have been super busy each day this week and every night we are all pretty tired. We end up staying up and talking a little bit. We live in a 4 Elder apartment. The other missionaries in my apartment are Elder Murray and Elder Thatcher. They serve in a biking area. Our apartment has had some really good times already. 

Our zone played a game together on Saturday where all of us sent a picture of our lower half of our face and we all had to guess who it was. We did that over Zoom. It was super funny. 

We are teaching a bunch of people right now. One of the little challenges we are having is trying to meet with them and set up lessons. We also don't have a lot of miles so we have to be careful where we drive so we don't use all of them.

Church on Sunday was pretty fun. I gave a talk in church. When I got here on Thursday they told me that the bishop wanted me to give a talk as well as the other sister that got transferred in with me. So we gave our talks, they were about missionary work. It went super good. Afterward we got to know several of the members and they are super great. One of the members is Brother Perez. He is awesome and loves helping us out. He took is to get breakfast this morning and to the store to get our groceries. He loves coming to our lessons as well so we are really excited and grateful for his help. 

Well I hope you all have a wonderful week. Happy Memorial Day!  

Pictures! 

1. Me and Elder Larson

2. Me and Elder Sherman, Myers, Hogan.

3. Someone put this sticker on our car as a joke. It was pretty funny. 

4. We were at Raising Caines and we saw a  Napoleon Dynamite poster. 

5. Our friend Vicki and her son Jaku