I hope your
week was wonderful...We had an amazing week this week running around
doing companion exchanges with all of the missionaries...
Sunday
I also had a chance to Skype the Fam...Everyone looks so great and
sound so good even though my little brothers voices are a little deeper
haha..On Sunday night we were invited to the Presidents house for a
Special Mothers Day Dinner...just the 4 assistants the President and the
Wife of the President...It was a very nice casual dinner where we ate
Sister Robinsons favorite dinner (Fried Tacos).haha and President had
cooked it all...we walked into the house and President had his apron on
working quickly in the kitchen and the Sister was relaxing...Brought
back so many memories of when we cooked the dinner for our Mom on
Mothers Day haha...We had our normal meetings Monday morning and our
companions left to Nogales that day to start exchanges there and one of
my Companions and I stayed back to teach some really important lessons
Monday night...then we left Tuesday afternoon to arrive in Penasco to
start more exchanges haha...We arrived late Tuesday night and then I
left alone to go to a town north of Penasco that is called Sonoyta
(border with Lukeville Arizona)...We had the best exchanges out of the
whole transfer...The missionaries are really progressing personally and
progressing in the branch there...
I
then headed back to Penasco on Thursday to have some exchanges with the
Zone Leaders...I got off the bus and I was walking with the Zone
Leaders heading to the church to grab another bike for me and we got
stopped 2 by members and investigators that recognized me it was
wonderful to just run into the wonderful members...But as I explained to
my family on Mothers Day that these exchanges are not just to visit old
friends from old areas...So we spent the whole day teaching new
investigators and new converts that I hadnt even known...It was so great
to see that area still growing and progressing, while there we went to
the First Branchs Branch Counsel...where I saw pretty much the same
leaders as I did about a year ago...haha But I felt like they looked at
me differently...Every decision that was made in the Counsel..they
always gave me time to comment saying Elder Child how can we do this
better...or what could we do in this situation...I always gave them my 2
cents (weird how I always had something to say haha I am turning into
my Mother) and the Counsel always took the comments well...It was a
great experience to be able to see the growth of the branch...exactly 1
year ago we were in a Branch Counsel and we put the goal to have an
average attendance of 200 people in Sacrament Meeting...(We were at 130
people) They gave an update that for these last 2 trimesters they have
had an average of 240 people attending Church) They now have the goal of
getting to the 300 mark...haha As I have said..this Branch is
progressing fast...We might split the branch but that is a work in
progress haha...
While
in Penasco on Thursday at about 7 o clock at night we got a phone call
from some Elders here in Hermosillo that were having some
difficulties..They, not knowing that we were 7 hours away, asked if we
could help them in their Studies the next day to give them some
help...we told them that we would be there...so we finished up with our
Exchanges for the day (luckily we had gotten to all of the Elders in the
Zone) headed to the Zone leaders house packed our stuff, while one Zone
Leader made us a dinner of beans and tortillas....ate some dinner then
headed out to the bus station at 12:30 A.M. Friday or half hour after
midnight and then Headed back to Hermosillo...It was quite the
experience traveling at night...It was very interesting why God puts us
where and when...I found myself sitting next to a young man that I
recognized as a member from the other Branch in Penasco...and we started
talking...about his life and future plans..I remember very clearly that
a year ago when I met him for the first time he was super excited to go
on a Mission...now he was not very excited to serve...So I spent a good
hour and a half talking to him and reading scriptures with him. He was
reexcited to serve...and he told me that we would start filling out his
papers in this week...after that conversation I slept like a baby..only
being interupted by other Babies that would start crying on the way...We
got to the bus station in Hermosillo at 7 in the morning, I quickly
brushed my teeth, washed my face, and fixed my hair in the bathroom,
took a taxi over to the Elders house and we started studying at 8...It
was pretty hectic but we could really help those Elders out...we hope
they will keep being happy and excited to be a part of this great
work...
Here
is my week in 3 paragraphs haha...I did a lot of traveling and running
around but I throughout this week I felt that God was putting me in
every situation for a specific reason...So it was a great tiring
week...but thanks to the Temple Session at 7 o clock this morning we are
pumped and ready to go this next week....
Love you All
Elder Child
The long road to Sonoyta..(kind of weird traveling alone)
Exchanges in Sonoyta
My Comp and I on the 12:30 AM Bus Ride To Hermosillo
Mothers Day...A little Blurry but all smiles...
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