Hello friends, guess
what tomorrow is? Transfer time! I remember one time talking to a Sister who
was having trouble adjusting to her new area, she felt like the old one was
better and and more successful and blah, blah, blah. I told her to think about
it like a video game. Every transfer or period of change is like a level. And
of course if you were doing well and having an easy time in your last area or
period of time this one is going to be harder, you just leveled up! It means
your are making progress and now you are moving on to harder things. Well, I
must have seriously leveled up without my knowledge or something because I've
got a lot coming my way this next transfer! As you know from my whining last
week we are losing our car and are moving to a bike area. I know that I
probably sound really lazy complaining about that but my biggest concern is
that it is going to slow everything down so much! Especially considering how wide
spread Rio Rancho is. But, people have been doing it for forever so, what can I
say? Anyway, it's be an adjustment. I am also taking over the area for the
first time, yay! Ha, it's crazy how I've been here for 6 weeks already but I
still really don't know where anything is. And my new companion is also fresh
off the MTC boat. So it'll be fun! I don't mean of course to complain, I have
absolutely no doubt that is it entirely possible to do amazing and have lots of
success and fun with these situations, just that they will take a little
getting used to! Ha, Sister Morco and I were also talking about how really
those and most of our issues, while annoying and stressful at the time really
aren't that big of a deal, but that they were probably predatory or Aaronic
problems for to help us later in life when we have real crazy things happen or
Meckezedeck problems. You know like family issues and debt and all that fun
stuff.
Since this was our last
week with our car we have spent a lot of time exploring the outskirts of our
area which would be much more difficult to do with a bike. So we have been
listening to our banjo hymns a lot this week. In one area we searched we only
found three houses. We also found a lot of houses that have pretty good Edgar
Allen Poe potential. We chose to avoid most of them. I think our general rule
was that if the door is missing or might as well be to skip it. We also found
that the days that we committed to spend time out in the super dirt roads it
was also always increabily windy. Everything gets dusty here and tumble weeds
are now a lot less comical and a lot more normal (they'll always be a little
funny, you have to admit). By the way, it kind of hurts when they run into you.
Those things are prickly!
We discovered this week
as well that despite my being an FHE group leader for three school years, when
it comes to kids and doing a fun activity/object lesson with them that also a
gospel principle we only have one card up our sleeve! So thank you Bishop
Vaughn for doing that activity about prioritizing your time with the Mason jar
when I was in Young Woman’s because I've already done it twice! Maybe one of
these days we'll think of a new one but so far it's worked out alright and it's
a good secret lesson for the parents too.
I think that I mentioned
last week that President Miller has asked us to spent time learning more about
Family History so that we can teach it to others and use it as more of a tool.
So this Wednesday we went to the family history class at church and did some of
it. I connected my relatives on the Baker side to myself and connected a census
to some of the ancestors. We even found some kids on the census that weren’t on
family search, so I or someone will have to do a little more research to figure
out if they were lost kids that need work done or if they were part of
something else or what. It's a little bit crazy too because there were like
three different marriages involved.
This week we found a new
investigator! Huzzah! Now we have one! Ha, ok it's not quite that bad but it is
cool. We actually did find a few people that might be investigators in the
future though which is what we are going to work on this week. One of whom is a
guy named Demetrius who we almost didn't go talk to because I am a coward and
he looked scary. But we did because Sister Morco is awesome and inspired and he
told us that he had just gotten out of prison and was looking for a way to turn
his life around. He had been asking God to show him what to do. How cool is
that? I guess that's what I get for not wanting to talk to him. Maybe I should
not want to talk to people and my companion should make me do it more often so
we have more people to teach! Just kidding, maybe I should just talk to more
people. By the way, this is completely random but I just remembered something
cool. The clouds here are like Toy Story clouds. You know how they just have a
ton of texture? A lot of the time it's the same thing here.
Anyway, I hope you all
are doing well and have an amazing week. Talk to you soon!
Love,
April
ps Those two kids, the
Molina boys, were ridiculously excited about our name tags. Every time we see
them they would yell "We're going to take your names! I'm a
missionary!" Right after they "stole" them they started saying
"We're going to leave in our car, its right there. You live here now. You
live in there" And pointed to their room
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