Happy 4th!

I am doing swell!

I did get to meet President Hewlett and I'll talk about that more later. I am doing great this week was good, and the best week this area has had in a long long time. 

This week was great! Monday we bowled and did the usual. We played chair soccer as well. Nothing really exciting happened other than that though.

Tuesday was amazing! Since it was July 4th we were able to do whatever really. Pointless to work because everyone was celebrating. In the morning our branch had a party. It was fun and us missionaries sang the national anthem. It was odd though because I was I think the only person standing with my hand over my heart during it. Never had that happen before. We had pancakes and talked with everyone. After that we got together as a district for a big ol lunch. We all chipped in and bought a bunch of stuff for burgers and snacks and drinks. You can't not have a burger on the Fourth of July. I was the grill master like always and basically did everything haha. I made some bomb BBQ burgers for everyone. They were super good and everyone loved them. We chilled for a bit and all went back to the church. We played risk together and I destroyed everyone. No one stood a chance. I'm an unmatched military commander I guess. We ate some food and played a lot of games. We played a bit of basketball and some more chair soccer. It was a super fun day. After that before we had to go home we watched some fireworks. They were super disappointing though... I'm used to Utah where we can see fireworks everywhere in the whole valley but there were only like two small shows that you could barely see and they weren't very good at all.


Wednesday was fun too. We had zone conference and everyone got to meet President Hewlett. He's a great guy and I love him. He's a sport lover and just the nicest guy I've ever met. We met him and his family, sister Hewlett is super funny. They have a 15 year old daughter that is staying here in Texas with them. They have older kids too. It was good to see Riches as well. We were able to catch up. We went to Taco Bell after with Elder Lesa and Johnson. I missed them (they were in the MTC with me) we have all grown to be great friends.

Thursday was good, but I don't really remember it. We ate with the Fongs and it was good as usual. Their kid Victor is so cool and we take him with us a lot to work. He's super funny always making jokes.

Friday was great. We had district meeting which was good, but what made the day great was that Elder Riches was on exchanges with our district leader. Because he is a zone leader now btw. I got to talk with him a bunch that day. After DM we all ate lunch together again. We were going to go grill burgers, or more correct I was going to grill burgers, but there was no propane at the apartment complex so we decided to go get burgers at Ricky's. It was amazing!! We had a good day, we found four new investigators. We ate dinner with Presidente Rubio and he got us pizza. Riches ate with us as well.

Saturday we were able to put a lady on date so that was great. I have a good feeling that she will be baptized for rizzle. Her date is on the 29 of this month. This would be amazing because it would be the first baptism in this area for over a year. People always talk about how bad this area is and it would make me feel a lot better if I were able to baptize here. She's super cool. Her name is Luna. Pray for her that she can be baptized!

Sunday was great! We had church and then went tracting. We had lunch with the Rodriguez family and it was so fun like usual. After we tracted a bit and had dinner with the Hernandez family. It was super good. We played la Segunda milla afterwords too.

This week was great and I hope y'all have a good one. Love ya

"Reunited with Riches!"

"We photo bomb the hermanas"

New Mission President

This week was pretty good. I got the journals and shoes on Thursday and so far so good. It went by real quick. How is Indiana? 

Monday was good we went bowling like usual. I'm pretty good at bowling I think. We ate pizza there and got ice cream. It was good. After that we went to the church and played basketball. That was fun. 

The rest of the days I can't really remember mostly just a blur. 

But Thursday night some crazy stuff happened. We ate with the Chavez family and that was good, but afterwards we headed towards the church to play basketball with the youth like we do every week. When we got there and got out this guy came up to us from inside the building. He was freaking out. He kept telling us that he needed a blessing and told us all about his gang life and about his time in jail. But what was bad was he had a staph infection. And I have had meningitis so I didn't want to go anywhere near him. And he was high on something. He followed us inside and was terrorizing the place. Luckily the English Elders came over and took care of him. One of the members were there with their kid too and he had meningitis when he was a baby and they were real worried. It was weird

Friday was normal had district meeting which was good. We had snacks afterwards. We were able to do service Friday. We helped a lady in the English ward move. It took six hours... it was long. President Drake left that night.

Saturday president Hewlett got here in Texas. We get to meet him on Wednesday. We helped another person move in as well. It was super hot that day. We had to go on splits with English too because we both had lots to do. 

Sunday was good. Church was fine as usual. Other than that we didn't do much.

Tomorrow we have a branch party. It should be fun. I'm doing good love y'all. Have a good week.

"sometime's you're just out and about and the hermanas spot you crossing the street!"

"The Drakes are leaving and we get a new president."

"This kid is so cool!"

"Back in Utah"

"This Pepsi is fire." 

"Boom"