Week 67

 Hola holaaa!

After almost a full year of being behind on emails, I finally caught back up!! Fortunately, that isn't the biggest highlight of this past week. Tuesday was transfer day!! And boy has this transfer already been a weird one...

Things that didn't change:

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Things that changed:

- After serving with Elder Brume for the past two transfers, my new companion is Elder Schneider! I am follow-up training him (meaning he's on his second transfer) and he's from Colorado. He has the biggest heart and I'm excited to see us grow together this transfer!

- After my third transfer serving in the Rancho Vista Spanish ward (and some English wards), I am now serving in the Parkway Spanish ward (and no English ward). 

- After my fifth transfer of serving as a Zone Leader, I have now completely upgraded back to a District Leader of the Decker Lake District. I say upgraded cause I'm now going to have a fairly consistent schedule, studies, and my sanity (hopefully). Also my whole District is just Elders (aka an Elder's Quorum)

- With a change in area, I also moved into a new apartment which I will mention has been the grodiest, disorganized apartment I have ever moved into. I have already put hours of cleaning into it and I feel like I've barely made a dent... but boy is it fun! This was an easy move as well cause the Parkway ward is like 7 minutes and 39 seconds away from where I was serving in Rancho Vista

- Ya boy is driving again!

- I got some new roommates, Elder Cardenas and Elder Moya, who we are splitting the Parkway ward with

Apparently the Parkway ward is the sketchiest area in the whole mission. They only send Elders here. Last year, some Elders were held at gunpoint and were forced to watch some inappropriate content. Elder Schneider also informed me of an apparent meth lab that's right across the street from our Ward Mission Leader. I'm pretty hyped though cause this is where all my cool missionary stories are gonna come from haha.

I went to Target with Elder Cardenas to get his COVID vaccine, and the worker told me that they had extras, soooooo I full sent it and got vaccinated as well... SURPRISE! I tried to play it off that I didn't feel any side effects, until the next morning came... and I was dead. I was tired and sore and it hurt to move my eyes. But anything for invincibility I guess.

So this past week has been rough to say the least. We made approximately 570923485 calls and only like 5% of the people we call, including members, answer us. The people that we're "teaching" haven't been taught for months. All my efforts seemed in vain as well - my mission president, President McBeth, had called me before transfer news even came out, and he told me that he was putting me as a District Leader in this district and area specifically because he sees great potential in teaching English classes. However, the only people that showed up to both our English classes this past week were just this one Taiwanese family (who are super cool by the way, but that's besides the point).

I think my Heavenly Father is trying to teach me to trust more in His plan than my own plan. I already know that this will be a transfer of motivation and innovation, and I'm very excited for what will come of it!

Thanks for all the birthday wishes! And happy Mother's Day!!! I love you Mom!!!!!!!!!

Elder Terry

Fotos:

1) Elder Schneider and I at the English class with the super cool Taiwanese family

2) My family sent me a really cool Easter basket made of candy for either a late Easter present or an early birthday present

3) One of the amigos that we're teaching had this bag full of........ uhhhhhh..... fish(??!?) on his bike handle and it fascinated me so much that I had to take a picture of it