Hola Familia!
So this has been an
interesting week! I got a new companion and I got to take over the area!
Thanks for sending the
bike lights! They've been super helpful and they work great!
Elder Bangerter is
from Houston, Texas! He's been out on his mission for 18 months now. It's been
kind of weird adjusting to a new companion. I just got so used to Elder Taylor
and how things worked with him, that changing companions was kind of a shock! I
love Elder Bangerter but he's just different than Elder Taylor. I think the
biggest difference that I've noticed is that Elder Bangerter is just always
with me. When I was with Elder Taylor, we'd do our studies in different rooms,
at night time we'd kind of do our own thing, and we didn't have a problem just
sitting around in silence. Elder Bangerter is a very very social person. He's
always talking! Which is good but sometimes it's a little draining to keep a
conversation going from 7:00 in the morning to10:30 at night!
Haha but he's a lot of fun! He's kind of weird, but that's okay! It keeps life
interesting! It's been a little hard because Elder Bangerter's last two
companions were pretty lazy/disobedient so I think he just got into the habit
of being a little lazy. But it's actually helped me because it's forcing me to
step up and take control! I'm really excited to be Elder Bangerter's companion!
It's going to be a good transfer!
I'm sure I've
mentioned this before... but missionary work is exhausting!! I'm always
tired!!! Waking up in the mornings is always really hard! It was easy at first,
but now it takes so much effort to drag myself out of bed! I'm really grateful
for all the hard work! And biking keeps us in pretty good shape! President
Mullen is doing a Cross-Fit activity of February 16 and it's going to
be brutal!
Alfredo is going to be
baptized on February 15!!! I'm so super excited! Elder Taylor will come
back to baptize him and then I'll get to do the confirmation the next week in
church! His sister lives in the ward that borders ours. They're all going to be
baptized that day! His mom is going to be baptized this Saturday into
the Spanish ward and she wants me to say the closing prayer! That whole family
is just perfect!
We met with Veronica
the other night and brought a team up, Brother Madderra, with us. Usually when
we meet with Veronica, she's too distracted to sit down and have an actual
lesson with us. But that night we taught her the Plan of Salvation and answered
some of her questions. She said that everything we teach her just clicks and it
all makes sense. It's just like one light-bulb after another going off in her
head. Brother Madderra was really helpful in answering some of her questions!
Which was good because we had been trying so hard to think of a good fellowship
from the ward for Veronica and now we found one! She talked about how everyone
at church is happy. She can tell when people are being fake but she said that
every single person in our church is genuinely happy and she wants to be able
to feel like that too. It made me think of the scripture, Mosiah 2:41. It
talks about how those who keep the commandment are happy because they are
blessed temporally and spiritually. Also because we know who we are. We are
children of our Heavenly Father. We are able to return and live with Him. I
really love that scripture because it's so true! When we keep the commandments,
our Heavenly Father WILL bless us. He loves us. And as we keep the
commandments, life gets easier and easier. It gets easier to choose the right
thing.
I'm grateful for all
of your letters, emails, prayers, etc..! I love you all!
Love,
Elder Warren
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