This area is super cool! it`s about an hour from where I was (in bus)
and it is in this giant valley between a bunch of mountains.
Pyrrhuloxia, Loggerhead Shrikes, Merlins, and many kingbirds and
Kiskadees can be found here, so it`s kind of like an Arizona-ish
climate, so to say.
The worst part is that my
new Companion, Elder S, threw me in the smallest room possible, so I have to study and sleep there, and it`s the worst. I feel like Harry
Potter, dang it. Whatever, I guess that means I get a dwarf thing [Dobby] who
tells me not to go to school, so that`s all good.
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| Davis in the Harry Potter room. At least there is a cool falcon drawing. |
As
a zone leader we started out on tuesday with a small presentation of
the zone after the district meetings, and put the baptism goals for the
change. We check all of the district meetings (there are three districts
in the zone) and we have a lot of contact with all of the district
leaders, and with the Assistants to the President (By the way, my old
companion Elder T is the newest assistant, so that`s pretty cool.)
We went to the Leadership counsel this past friday, and we talked about
the challenges about the mission and how to overcome them, and also
reviewed the responsibilities we have as leaders. We also ate lasagna
(sweet.) We also have meetings with the Stake President and Mission
President every month to talk about how the members and the missionaries
are working together, we are going to do a zone conference at the end
of february, where we will give a presentation on how to help
investigators keep commitments. We do divisions with the district
leaders, and call many more people than I did when I was a district
leader, but it`s ok because each of us has a phone. Elder S is a
super good missionary too, and he has just 3 months left in his mission.
he has quite a bit of time here in Huasteca, but it is possible that
I`ll be his last companion.
I saw elder G at the counsel, and we made fun of each other, so I think we will be ready to room together [in college].
There
are so many people here that want to listen to the gospel, and the ward
here is really big and they are doing a lot of things to get the
missionary work going. The youth are on their toes with inviting people
to church, so I`m really excited to work here. We had two people in
church yesterday, and two other kids came with their friends, saying
that we could meet their family soon. (they were two boys 10 and 11 in
Dodgers sweatshirts, so they`re already pretty awesome.) I`ll let you
know soon how the work goes.
Love,
Elder Garner
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