Bueno!
Well, things are going good as ever down here in Yuma - everyone's starting to get a little more excited and scared as transfers come up. You never know who's going to go or stay or train or get a leadership call. We've had a visa-waiter here Elder Harris that has been here a few months with me and he just got his visa yesterday so he got jetted out today. We were pretty tight, so I'm going to miss him.
Well, this week was pretty interesting.. I went on exchanges Monday with our district leader that's about to go home (Elder Hulka) and actually did English work! So that was my second english exchange I think, and it was interesting to see how it's all done because it's SO different from spanish work. They work with a lot of older people, the snow-birds, in their area, and it's crazy just seeing how many wards they cover. One thing that is a little different is the people that they do teach are a lot more likely to keep commitments and go to church. We're still kind of having a tough time with that. But it's a whole lot easier to OYM and talk to people on the street if they speak Spanish. It's just interesting to see all of the differences in working with the different cultures. But yeah, it was also funny because we ate a dinner at a guy's house who was from Juneau so he talked about Alaska the entire time, and had apparently been wanting me to come over for weeks, since he knew I was from Alaska.
It was kind of a rough week for lessons (we didn't have as many as normal) but the ones we did get were good! We realized how vital members are to have in lessons with us when the only people that came to Church on Sunday was a family that we visited with members. The whole Wilson family came to church on Sunday, a total surprise, and they were all dressed up and loved it! It was so cool to see them there, and I just wish the dad's work schedule was different so they could go every Sunday.
That, and we've had an interesting time since our branch mission leader disappeared for the last few weeks. He owns a newspaper business and somebody apparently hacked into his bank accounts so he's been figuring that out for the past while. We're just trying to really unify all the branch leaders and get them on the same page. We had a really good fireside on Sunday and got a lot of members pumped up about mission work. It was cool because all 6 of us were up there together talking to everyone, and I thought it was pretty powerful.
So yeah, we've just been still thinking about how we can be more effective, and how we can use the members more. Investigators that have really good fellowship simply get baptized, and we need these members more than anything.
But wow, it's been a warm week, around 85 degrees every day. Can't believe it's January! So the work is going forth, we're continuing to work harder and harder, and we'll find out what happens with transfers on Monday night!
Love y'all!
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