July 22nd, 2024 - 48th Email - Ahora somos tres

 Qué pasa todos

So basicamente transfers happened last week

It was pretty crazy honestly like last monday seems like forever ago

I bet you're sitting at the edge of your seata rn reading my email like "holy cow where did he go"

Im still in san bernardino you dont have to worry my guys

Although lowkey I was expecting that I kinda felt like id get six week shafted though

Elder mullins is still here too

And then you know elder bryan also pulled up

Bro is from texas and he is the most stereotypical texan of all time

At the time of writing this he is wearing a coat with the texan flag on it and he has a texan flag over his bed and he said he was a literal cowboy before coming out on the mission

We working on spanish with him lol

The reason we in a trio rn is becuz elder mullins is actually finishing his mission mid transfer to make it on time for school so he's leaving us to fend for ourselves mid transfer so thats gonna be super fun

Im also district leader again so thats cool we have an epic messenger chat with a minecraft wallpaper

Our zone is a bunch of goobers and we have 3 greenies so its super fun

This week was cool we literally called everyone and their dogs and we're probably boutta do some deep cleaning in our area book this week (dropping a ton of people for sure)

We just got a ton of people not progressing rn that like us to come over and just dont do anything so we need to really reset expectations but the amount of people and referrals we got coming in makes it so we have to drop those people in favor of others who might progress more

So elder watson actually went home on tuesday (because he finished his mission) so elder taylor was a lone man in his area so we were kind of a half trio for tuesday and wednesday which was fun but he also just hopped over with another companionship whenever we were busy and he had a lesson in his area it ended up being really crazy and convoluted but we survived and thats what matters

And then transfers happened on thursday

But the funny thing was like

Elder mullins me and elder taylor werent going to transfers

So elder bryan and neville (elder taylor's new companion) didnt have a ride back

So they were told to hop in a rav and stuff 3 missionaries' worth of stuff in a rav4

So we were like

Bruh

We literally live like 2 seconds walk away from the mission office (exaggeration) why dont we just go over

So thats exactly what we did

We go to the mission office to get elder bryan and we tell him "ayo wassup throw your junk on our rav" so he did but there wasnt enough space to bring elder taylor and elder neville too with all the junk he had so we left them there and then we got back home and elder neville had actually grabbed a ride with the original elders he was supposed to hitch a ride with so elder taylor just ended up by himself at the mission office (well there were others but still) and then we had to go back and pick him up and elder mullins messaged the aps like "you know there were three missionaries worth of stuff in that one little rav" and they were like "yeah lol oops we didnt think about that"

We almost lost elder bryan a few things but its ok all is retrieved

Friday night I smashed my ring finger trying to pick up a 50 pound weight so my finger is bruised pretty bad but its not broken so we chillin it was probably pretty dang close tho still havent broken a bone in my life  it hurt so bad but its ok its better now and I can still play piano so thats good

Also on friday a member took us to a steakhouse called sizzlers and it was absolutely bussin it was insanely good that was seriously probably the best sirloin ive ever had in my life and ive had a good amount of steak in my life

We also gave a blessing to an Hermana in the ward with lung problems it was super sad so pray for her

Saturday we had breakfast with the zone at the stake presidents house we do that every transfer here and we had pretty good french toast

Sunday we had a good amount of people to church, plus a really good baptism of the Hermana's friends, that baptism has been a long time coming they literally got back from mexico doing family things saturday night to get baptized sunday they were determined and it was great very Spirit filled and all that fun stuff and then we saw a couple friends really start progressing that evening too

I also took a fat nap during lunch hour and it was probably the best nap ive had in a while

Today for our pday activity we played some water balloon volleyball where we had people hold towels to stop water balloons from hitting the ground and it was honestly the most jank game of all time i had no idea what I was doing but it was fun and we were all laughing about how jank it was

Anyway good week overall lots of fun and being in my first trio is actually so cool. We're all really different people but we learn a lot from each other and it's going pretty well.

Also in my district we do questions of the day in our district chat to make it fun and im lowkey out of ideas so if you have any of ideas please help a brotha out

Alright love yall have a good one que tenga buen día el español se está mejorando y puedo hablar mucho mejor que cuando comencé la misión

It's like literally so cool talking to people in spanish and its when you can start being funny in the other language it just becomes that much more fun

Learning spanish is like unlocking the latin america dlc pack and its insane

Ok bye lol also tomorrow I'll have 365 days left on the mission, dont hit a year out tho until august 14th so the halfway point is in like 10 days I think

Pictures!

-our schedule on tuesday, each green line between 1 and 2:30 is a contact whether in person, on the phone, or over text 

-my district chat rn

-the trio

-bro idk where the english elders got these medieval fits they were probably at a friend's house but it was such a tough pic I had to send it