Week 13

Hola guapos!

So this past week was transfer week, and boy were there some changes. First of all, I got my new companion, Elder Turner, who is an absolute stud and I'm super excited to be with him this transfer. He's from Texas, he's single (hopefully 🙊), and he's a gosh darn good missionary. He's been on his mission for 16 months, and like I mentioned last week, he was my trainer's trainer, so he's basically the CEO of missionary work.

I also got relocated to a different living area, which is in the basement of a members home. It's a super nice place with plenty of room to fit 4 missionaries. It has been super fun to have another companionship living with us, Elder Olachea and Elder Hernandez, cause it's a fiesta every day having people to actually socialize with.

But just when we all finally settled in and got comfortable, a couple days later, Elders Olachea and Hernandez got a call that they're getting relocated to an apartment in their actual area, so we're lone wolves now. Hopefully our sanity doesn't go out the window with it just being the two of us now, but we'll manage.

So one of the goals that the mission has set is for all companionships to teach at least 20 lessons every week to keep us working hard and to see our progress each week. Last transfer, we were dishing out 40+ lessons each week (it was a bit easier cause we were a trio and covered two areas) and had never ended up with less than 20 lessons by the end of the week.

But this past week with all of the changes and transferring and people cancelling on us, we had only taught 2 lessons by the start of Thursday, so we'd have to go  B E A S T  M O D E 💪😤 if we were gonna get 20 lessons. So we pulled out all the stops 😧, working day and night 😩, and managed to get 21 lessons by Sunday 🏆🏅 The streak lives on!

While it felt good to meet the goal, the number of people that we contact or teach every week really don't matter, since these "numbers" are real people, and not just a statistic. There are many variables that can lead to a high amount of lessons, or even a low amount. What really matters if the efforts that we put in, because the Lord loves effort, and that's all we can really do on our part. Whether or not other people accept or reject you, that's their choice. Or whether or not you get the outcome you were expecting, sometimes you dont have control over it. But the best you can do is try with everything you got.

Thank you all for all of your support. Feel free to email me anytime; I love hearing from my fans 😉 See y'all next week!

Elder Terry

Fotos:

1. Elders Turner and Terry, in the flesh

2. So the Ward Missionary Leader in our area just randomly sent us this picture of him, so we returned the favor, which is where foto #1 comes from. Happy every day 😎😎💪

3. Ya boi did a big boy puzzle (in my free time of course 🤧)

4. Meal of the week: sum tacos yum