June 26, 2017

Summer Time

MOMMA!!

Ya I dont think we get to do anything special for the 4th of July, but I am jealous of where you guys will be on the 4th. So is Mason going by plane alone? When is his trip to Fiji?  Being a District leader is pretty neat, I guess, i just have to send in numbers on Sundays and just do follow up calls with people, and I get to conduct meetings within the district and that's about it. It's pretty cool just being a step up from what I was before, because it gives a little wider perspective. It can be a little stressful preparing for district meetings.

Elder Stone and I are doing pretty good so far, driving has been pretty good, no accidents or anything. I am sure the package is here, it's just probably waiting for me in Oakland. They don't call us or anything it just waits for someone to pick it up, we have interviews this Thursday so I'll get it then at the latest. The new area is pretty cool, but pretty big, it for sure helps that I'm driving! We have some pretty good investigators right now, one of them has a baptismal date for the 16th of July, his name is Salomon De La Cruz, pretty cool guy, made a lot of changes since he met the missionaries. The branch is pretty great and they seem super good at fellowshiping investigators so thats great! 

This last week we went on exchanges and I went with Elder Henson who is a super awesome guy!! We stayed up kind of late just talking about doctrine and stuff and it was so crazy awesome and weird, but I felt like my testimony grew over that exchange. I'm not sure how common this is, but you should look into what a "calling and election made sure" means, probably too sacred to just talk about it over an email, but that is some super cool stuff that when I have free game on any study materials thats what im going to be studying! I also heard a second hand experience from someone about Elder L. Tom Perry which was super cool, I just really came to realize that Christ is at the head of the church, and it's not just a bunch of old people that are doing what they think is best for us in this moment.

I too was bad at picture taking so I'll try and take some right now and send those when I can! It's been a great week here!! Love you!!

So here's another pic of me in the family history room, they will probably come like this a lot. thats elder Jaco sittling next to me, he's a pretty cool cat.

...and another one at a slightly different angle the person looking at the camera sitting on the other side with his hands together in the shape of a triangle is Elder Henson! He's way cool!