President and Sister Torres are super nice and amazing, and yeah they are super young, they aren't even in their 40's yet.
Then Tuesday we met our trainers, my trainer is Elder Ritchey, he is super cool and really pumped to be a trainer for the first time. He has been out for 10 months so he is still kind of young. We are getting along really well and having a great time so that should help these next 5 weeks go by.
We are in the city of La Joya which
is like 25 minutes west of McAllen and right on the border. There are only 4 elders for our whole district which is basically all of La Joya and surrounding towns. So we have lots to do. And so far it has been weird, the culture is the definition of TexMex, not quite Texas but not quite Mexico either, it is crazy. We are in a huge valley so there is basically nothing, it is all flat for miles and miles in every direction.
is like 25 minutes west of McAllen and right on the border. There are only 4 elders for our whole district which is basically all of La Joya and surrounding towns. So we have lots to do. And so far it has been weird, the culture is the definition of TexMex, not quite Texas but not quite Mexico either, it is crazy. We are in a huge valley so there is basically nothing, it is all flat for miles and miles in every direction.
The people here love my last name though, that is a bonus. On Sunday they announced the new elders in Sacrament meeting and when the Bishop said my name everyone did a double take, all 100 of them. It is kind of a smaller ward here in La Joya, they get just about 100 in attendance every week. So church yesterday was kind of different, and it was all in Spanish which was a little rough to understand but I got the jest of everything.
So far here there isn't a whole lot going on, we have some investigators that were investigators before I got here but for some reason they aren't really progressing. A huge problem here though is less actives, we are going to start trying to work on member reactivation but it will be a long and difficult process.
Some highlights for the week:
I was almost bit by a dog twice (don't worry it was a chihuahua).
Yes my bike was there (ready to go so that was all taken care of.
We got to watch the Christmas devotional from the first presidency yesterday which was really good.
We are in an area where we have a car so that has been really nice.
The food here is super good, it is mostly Mexican food, nothing super American.
We have already had 3 dinner appointments and that has been super nice, the people here are very nice to us.
Love you and talk to you next week
Elder Goodbaudy
PS: I had elote for the first time this week. It is that mexican street corn which they literally sell on the street in basically ice cream trucks that play hispanic music. It was sooo good and it is only like $1.50 so that was a bonus.
PS: I had elote for the first time this week. It is that mexican street corn which they literally sell on the street in basically ice cream trucks that play hispanic music. It was sooo good and it is only like $1.50 so that was a bonus.
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