Hola otra vez! (Hello again!)
Well, hello from Mesa! I do have to say it's a completely different world here, and it's been a huge adjustment in terms of missionaries, area, members, apartment, and missionary work in general. I do have to say it's fun being with Elder Johnson again - we get a whole lot of work done, and I feel like we're starting to work more and more efficiently. It's been kind of rough to start out, because I don't really know any members and I don't know who we can get a hold of to be fellowships and to help out with us in lessons, but it's starting to come and it's cool being in a Spanish ward instead of a branch.
Okay, well I'm going to start out with my highlight of the week - we had an awesome lesson last night with this referral that we contacted. The lady that answered the door just let us in without us hardly even saying anything, and we literally had the best, most enjoyable lesson with her entire family! They were all super attentive, and we taught the Restoration very simply and clearly. We've been focusing on doing that - making lessons shorter, more powerful, and easier to understand. They all understood everything without a problem, and were all excited to read the Book of Mormon! I can't even describe what exactly it was (well obviously it was the spirit) but we were just walking on air afterwards. I was happier than I've just about ever been. I love that feeling!
And a quick random super funny story - so a couple elders in my district had an interesting OYM last night. To make a long story short, a very drunk African lady basically attacked them and hugged them and they ended up with lipstick on their collars... It was an extremely entertaining story, and the best part is that the senior companion there is a super quiet, somewhat awkward guy that I would have loved to see in that type of situation. Anyway, we were having somewhat of a competition with them to see who could get the most OYM's yesterday (talk to the most people about the gospel) and let's just say we almost doubled theirs...It's never a good idea to throw out a challenge like that to Spanish bike missionaries who have all kinds of trailer parks and apartment complexes in their area. But it's fun to push each other to work harder and be better! Oh and speaking of OYMs, we were challenged to teach a quick restoration lesson in under a minute during an OYM, and we had a way cool experience with that. I talked to this random lady all about it and we are now teaching her sister (she lives in a different area) while she's being taught by other missionaries. It was just cool to see her reaction - it was logical to her, and we all left happy and feeling great!
Well, it's a different style of missionary work here- we find a whole lot more through referrals than we do through tracting or anything else. I'm getting used to it though, and I'm excited to see everything take off here. We're planning out how we can get members involved as fellowshippers and not just simply be present in a lesson. It makes all the difference in the world!
And Elder Johnson's definitely keeping me in shape - we run to the track and have a good workout every morning, and we do plyos and weights and everything too. That and riding the bike of course helps as well. Speaking of which, I finally got my bike fixed again and hopefully it should be good for a while...I don't know if bikes are meant to be used as much as we use them!
So it's been an interesting change being the district leader here. I get to do nightly calls, training meetings, stake reports, gathering stats, all kinds of good stuff. We actually just had this training meeting last week and learned a TON! It makes it tough to write in my journal, because there's so many other things to do, but i love it and it's fun to be that example for the missionaries here. I also found out something that is going to rock my missionary world!! Preparation days are going to be changed next transfer to Mondays and that's going to throw off my whole week every week, but luckily that's not going to be for another week.
Anyways, that's about it for the week! I love it here in Mesa, and I'm just learning all the time!
Hasta luego!
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