December 26, 2022 Merry Christmas everyone, I hope that all is well. This week was a lot of fun, we did service at a food pantry and cleaned up the community gardens and then we had Zone Conference. Always amazing We talked a lot about flooding the world with the Book of Mormon and giving very personal experiences with it. No more broad "oh I felt the spirit" stuff. We need to be bold, promise from the scriptures, and teach doctrine not opinion. We then finished with talking about asking to receive the strength to push through our trials instead of asking to remove the trials. Which I never thought about, super cool. Christmas is always fun but as a missionary the holidays are rough, not because you are away from friends and family but because nobody wants to meet with you but you still have to be diligent. So... our response to this was making 200+ cookies and delivering them to almost everyone in our records. So for the past 2 days we visited so many people, drove for hour...

December 12, 2022 Week has been wild, I can say that much. Monday was a lot of packing and the next day I headed off to Eugene. The car ride was very long, very pretty, and now I am here! From day one I knew we were gonna be going full steam ahead. We have contacted so many people, put 2 people on date, got 9 return appointments, and the members have been feeding us very well. There are so many people to visit here it is almost too much to handle. Luckily my companions know this area pretty well, they have both been here more than once throughout their time serving missions. As zone leader we have to lead a couple meetings and stuff, sadly I got put in charge of one, and I definitely got some stage fright and fumbled. Oh whale, it happens. I am struggling to get to know everyone, but it will come with time. Hopefully I can memorize their names at least and kinda get to know how each of the companions are doing. Something I learned this week is that exact obedience will br...

 December 12, 2022 This week was awesome! For starters, we put Yoanni, one of our investigators from Venezuela, on date! The original day was for the 14th. He's awesome, for our last lesson on the plan of salvation he was teaching half of it, and it was super great, he is definitely ready. On top of that we had a baptism on Sunday. Went well I got to baptize, sadly I dropped her haha. Yesterday I was also able to give the Holy Ghost to her, felt funny being told the words by the Branch President though like a kid in primary saying prayers. Also, Yesterday I got the news that I will be moving to Santa Clara, and I will be a Zone leader! Staying Spanish which is awesome and even better I'm getting back with my trainer so it's going to be wild. So excited, a little stressed with the new responsibilities, and very excited to see how this area does while I'm gone and hearing from my companions how the people are progressing. Lot happened this week busy day today packing and ...

 December 1, 2022 Dang been forever since I got an email out. Quick rewind... 2-3 weeks ago (cant remember anymore) we put 2 people on date, had a baptism that was super hectic. We tried filling the font, it was too slow. So me being the genius that I am ran back and forth across the whole church filling up huge tubs of hot water to dump into the font. Got filled up just in time, like as they were opening the doors haha. We also had a dual wedding where we got to see some friends, and we got 2 people married so they can be more prepared to get baptized and stuff.  Seen a lot of miracles recently with being able to meet with old friends (by that I mean people I met a few months ago), get some new ones, and Spanish is on FIRE! I got asked by the APs a few days ago during mission president interviews if I would ever be willing to teach the mission Spanish. I think I'll end up doing that next transfer. Furthermore, there are quite a few elders who say I'm one of the best (kin...