Elder Jaden Goodbaudy's mission to McAllen, Texas: Week 1 Brownsville, Texas

Hey Mom,

This week has been super long. It is finally Monday. Brownsville is good, it is super poor but it is really well maintained and looks really good. Elder Griffeth is super awesome and he is a really good guy. The one ward that we cover is a Spanish ward, Brownsville 2nd ward.

So I guess I will get on to the highlights because I don't have a whole bunch of time

Monday:

We had a good last p-day. We played soccer as a zone and then we came back and I packed. We also called some members that we wouldn't be able to visit and told them I was leaving. Everyone was super sad, I was too. So we visited Eloy and I said goodbye to him. Then we had dinner with the Hernandez family and we said goodbye. That was the roughest goodbye, the Hernandez's are such an awesome family and I can't wait to come back and see them. We then visited a few other members to finish off the night. We got home, I packed a bit more and we went to bed

Tuesday:

Tuesday morning we went to seminary so we could say goodbye to brother Guerrero and bishop and the seminary class. We went back to the apartment and then got ready to leave. We left to the La Vista building and hung out while everyone got there. We then left to Brownsville which is like and hour towards the coast from McAllen, we met up with everyone in the zone and I met Elder Griffeth. We went and shooed really quick and then got at it. We had a meal appointment with a super awesome member named Fanny. We ate at a taqueria which was super good. We biked some more and visited some potential investigators and then we biked some more and went home.

Wednesday:

We had a quick zone meeting and then a district meeting. It went well. We had a zone lunch at another taqueria. We tried visiting some people and we had dinner with the Diaz family, they are super nice and we had some good chicken and rice. We biked to visit some other people and then we talked with David who is an investigator and his brother got baptized a few weeks ago. We had a good lesson with him and then went home.

Thursday:

We biked to the library to do family history. I had a flat tire on my bike so we got a ride home from some other missionaries. I put a patch on the tire and then we left to meet Lauro, David's brother (the guy who just got baptized) and we talked with him for a little bit. We biked to meet some other people. I got another flat tire, so the ZL's came and gave us a ride to our apartment so I could fix the tire, again. We tried to have some other lessons with people and we had some good lessons.

Friday:

I had another flat tire, we went to Walmart and bought a new tube. So I fixed that and then we went and had to help out some sister missionaries, because Griffeth is district leader over the sister missionaries. We did weekly planning and some studies. Then we had a member take us and the ZL's to Golden Corral for dinner. We did some more finding and then went home.

Saturday:

We woke up and found out I had another flat tire. So we went to Walmart again and got another tube. So now I shouldn't have any bike problems. We had coordination with Bishop Saturday morning. We the went to Whataburger with the ZL's and had lunch. We had some lessons and then had McDonald's for dinner. We visited some other less active and then had like a 20 minute bike ride home.

Sunday:

We had church, there were a lot more people and just visited people for theh rest of the day. We had dinner with a member and then visited some more people.

Today:

We played basketball finally and then volleyball. We stopped and that was about it

Not much time so here are some quick pictures: