January 1, 2018

Happy New Year!

So we were at some sisters apartment for the district party last night and we changed out of our pross clothes in their room so we decided to take a picture while we were there haha, and here is the district.

MOMMA!!!

Christmas was super awesome!! So we actually had it wrong and I guess the pozole was the day before so we totally missed it haha but thats ok, the rest of the week has been kind of crazy, the companion of someone in our district went home so now we are in a trio with Elder Corrigan who is a super cool guy from Conecticut, he plays baseball and went to BYU for a year before coming out. We have been busy with moving him and his stuff around, figuring out a good way to teach with 3 people becasue it's kind of weird, and better ways to get ready in the morning because now we have 3 people trying to use 1 shower so getting ready in the morning takes a little bit longer now. I read Dad's story about the dunes trip, SO CRAZY!!! Glad no one got hurt! Sorry New Years Eve wasn't that exciting for you, we went over to some other missionaries apartment after dinner and hung and with our whole district swaping stories and playing mafia and what not which was super fun, then we had a sleep over with our dist leader and played games up until midnight which was pretty fun, I assume there were a ton of fire works, and we could here people doing there own little one's, but we weren't really in a place that a lot would be launched off. 

Wow can you believe I was here for the entire year of 2017, that just blows my mind! So many things have happened, and so much has been learned it's hard to think of just a few things, first thing that comes to mind is how this whole past year, for every transfer we tried focusing on a Christlike attribute, the ones you'll find in preach my gospel, and it helped me to realize how hard it is or would be trying to become perfect immediately, but over the course of this year working on one thing at a time just makes it all seem more achievable, and what a great example we all have to follow, our Savior Jesus Christ, who is perfect. Estoy bien feliz por tener este evangelio en mi vida, y que yo puedo mejorar de mis faltas por medio de mi salvador, yo se que esta es la iglesia verdadera y yo he visto las vidas de muchas personas cambiar al aceptar y vivir el evangelio. Gracias por dar me esta oportunidad de estar aqui y servir una mision, estoy agradecido que estoy en los estados unidos, y en la mision de Oakland/San Francisco. Les mandare fontos pronto! Les amo!

that super black guy there in the pic is Elder Olone and he is such a good friend, he goes home in 9 days and I'm going to be so sad to see him go, love that guy!

Here are my dos companions

here is a selfie with orlando, this guy is always tickling me when we take pictures or when he hugs me haha