Week 20 Corpus Christi, Texas

Mom, 

The week was good. I'm glad all has been going as usual at home. No crazy teaching appointments this week, we had a lot of meetings and stuff like that so not a whole lot of time to go out and see the people. 

Don't have any scriptural insights this week, sorry. I've still been studying the New Testament with the institute manual, it's always good. 

This was a long, yet short week at the same time. It was kind of weird. The beginning of the week was pretty normal. Elder Huff signed his Visa paperwork on Wednesday, so he is now on the clock and could leave for Ecuador at any time. On Tuesday we found out that we would be having a mission leadership conference in McAllen. Normally it doesn't really mean anything but since they were inviting the district leaders to go it meant I got to go down to McAllen for Thursday and Friday with all the leaders in the mission. So Thursday morning we left for McAllen at 6 in the morning so we could be there at 9:30 when it started. I really enjoyed the conference, I got to see a lot of missionaries there that I know so it was pretty cool. It was a little weird though, because there were a lot of missionaries that I didn't know because they are all so new. 

Anyway, the conference was really good. President Torres talked a lot about being better ministers as leaders, so that we can better help those that we serve. It was awesome and I learned a lot. All I have to say is that President Torres is amazing. He is such an inspired guy.

Friday evening we got back to Corpus and just finished off the day. 

We didn't have fast and testimony meeting this week because we had stake conference. Saturday was pretty cool though because it was the adult session of stake conference. We had an area seventy speak, it was Elder Willis. Saturday session was good Elder Willis spoke about making it back to our heavenly home. Then Sunday morning we had the general session that was super good. Elder Willis gave another super good talk about enduring to the end. Honestly this week was really good. 

That was pretty much it for me. We will see when Huff ends up leaving and what happens with that. Until then though, here we are. 

Anyway, hope you guys have a great week. 

Love, 
Elder Goodbaudy