Bell, Rigdin PT

This week has had its ups and downs, but we're trying to take it all in stride. Whenever something comes up that messes with our plans, I just smile and laugh now. MONDAY was a lot of fun because I got to see a bunch of people I've served with before as well as getting to meet a handful of new people as well. The zone is all super friendly, and it's led to us being really unified in the things we do. We played a couple of card games and then did some pickleball and basketball, so it was a fun day. TUESDAY morning we got the whole zone together to go play some basketball in the morning for exercise. It's something I've never really tried before, but everyone seemed to enjoy it. A little later, we had District Council and zone lunch as normal, but something that was notable was that we joined the leadership wrap-up. I've never been a part of one before, and I don't think I'd like to in the future just because it was boring. Neat experience though! WEDNESDA...

This week's been a little long with transfers and getting adjusted to the new area, but it's pretty exciting too. We have a lot more people that we're teaching in this area, and we also have a lot more members. It's looking like this next transfer will be really busy! MONDAY I spent most of the time just saying goodbyes to people in the zone and hanging out with everyone. Nothing too special, but it was still a good time. TUESDAY I spent some time going around and saying goodbyes to members in the ward. I also spent most of the evening hours just packing my bags to get ready for transfers. WEDNESDAY we took the drive down to El Paso for transfers. We ended up getting there an hour early, so I just took off to the apartments that a bunch of the other missionaries lived at near the transfer site and hung out with them for a bit. Transfers are fun because I get to see a bunch of the other missionaries that I normally don't see. After we got all my stuff moved over, Eld...

Transfers have come again, and you already know what happened with me. I am being transferred after only 5 weeks here to the Las Colinas Ward in the Las Cruces Zone. Apparently, they're trying to get me to check off every zone in the mission haha. MONDAY we did all the normal P-day activities of playing sports and hanging out at the church. What we did that was special was that some of the missionaries mentioned going to Denny's to get dinner. What was originally going to just be 2 or 4 missionaries getting dinner turned into 12 out of the 16 missionaries in our zone all showing up one after the other and just making a bigger and bigger group the waiter had to take care of. TUESDAY was a bit annoying because they started road construction on the only road into our area. It was already a long, boring 30-minute drive to our area, and now it's an even more long, boring 50-minute drive where we have to follow a very slow pilot car down the road. I am not a fan of road construct...

This week was super exciting for me, mostly because of General Conference! During the last session of Conference, President Nelson announced 15 new temples to be built across the world, one of which will be in Norfolk, VA, which is just 30 minutes from my home! MONDAY we went fishing at some ponds that a member owns. I'm not the biggest fan of fishing, and I managed to get my line stuck in a tree 3 times, but it was still fun. TUESDAY nothing super interesting happened. We did visit a bunch of members, but nothing really noteworthy. WEDNESDAY we went to the farmers market to try and help people set up their stands. We ended up just being a little too late, but we got to help out managing the high school's stand when they had to go swap the kids. THURSDAY was the busiest I've seen the food bank since I got to this area. Normally it goes from 8 to 9:50 with another 10 minutes of cleanup, but this time we were still really busy until 10:15. FRIDAY we had a couple of different ...