Week 84

Transfer week this time is a bit interesting. I'm not particularly stressed about what the next transfer is going to be like, but I really hate that I have to pack again.

MONDAY was a lot of fun. I got to try out a new board game based on a video game I like, play in a really competitive game of chair soccer, and then finish the night off with everyone in the zone doing a spa night with face masks. It was pretty fun to be able to just hang out with everyone like that.

TUESDAY we had our normal district council. Nothing too special happened today, but we did help our recent convert, Ashlin, move to more downtown El Paso.

WEDNESDAY was a little weird because normally half the zone comes to this one farm for a couple of hours each week, but it ended up just being us and another companionship. We also had a really cool lesson with Ashlin, where he told us a lot of his life story.

THURSDAY there was a really terrible dust storm going all day, so we spent a lot of our time inside people's homes and inside the mission office so we could avoid the storm. We also got to help out that night with the greenie Zoom. We went over to the mission president's house and just shared our advice and experience with the mission to the greenies who will be coming into the mission soon.

FRIDAY I went on an exchange with Elder Hardy, who was my companion a couple of transfers ago. It was a lot of fun, and we taught a few lessons.

SATURDAY we had lunch at the farm I mentioned earlier. All the missionaries in the zone got together for it, and then we went on a zone-wide exchange. I went to another area with a missionary who's about to go home. Then that night, we got transfer news, and I was told that I'm leaving to open up a new area in Gila, NM, and that I will be training.

SUNDAY I just went around most of the day saying goodbye to members and friends.

1 Corinthians 13:1-2:
"1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. 2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing."

1, 2- spa day
3- farm
4- dust
5- everyone at the farm




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