It's been a pleasure to be able to hear from all of you this week! :) Things have been going pretty awesome in the place called Albuquerque! Well this week has been a pretty frabulous week methinks! We were able to meet a lot of new people and talk with the members of my new ward more! Oh and oops I neglected to mention in my last email that the ward that I was in got split, and so now I am no longer the ward with 900 members in it! But on a positive note, the Bishop is fantastic, and our new Ward Mission Leader (WML) is actually from North Logan as well, so who-da thunk? What brought my WML (and most other Utahns) out here, is a place called Sandia National Labs. Sandia, as it's called, works mostly with the Federal Government in the development of nuclear weapons, and other defense contracts.
Yep, but anywho things are pretty dang good here! We are now in the same ward as our Zone Leaders! Our Zone Leaders, Elder Weber and Elder Hansen, are some of the best missionaries there are and so it has been a real treat to be able to work with them out here!
One thing that our Zone Leaders have asked us to do is to contact (find/talk to/get to know) 10 new people each day, which is actually a lot harder than it sounds! But as we have been actively striving to meet that goal, we have gotten to meet so many cool people! For example we bumped into this 60 year-old man from Chihuahua who was jogging very slowly at a near by park. As we offered him a water bottle (one finding technique that we use) he motioned for us to come and run with him. And so we did. In full proselyting gear. Around the park..... Hahah but he was actually a really cool guy named David (Dav-eed), and to our observations we found out that he didn't speak any English... And so we tried to talk with him in our broken Spanish and see if he would want to meet with the Spanish speaking Elders. As we ran for like three more laps, we found out that he didn't want to us to come over and that he just wanted somebody to run with. Fair enough David. Fair enough.
But anyways things are so good out here! My companion and I are getting along something pretty swell, we are staying busy, and we are doing our best to help people! The only thing that could make this any better would be -get ready for the guilt trip- I would absolutely love to get more letters or emails from more of you though :) I always do love to hear from yous so if you get a chance, mail me up!
Any any who, I am so happy to be out here on my mission and serving the Savior of the World. I have seen him change lives and I can feel him changing mine!
--Till we meet again!
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