HELLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Greetings from Zion, aka the Denton Stake aka the Gainesville ward. :)
This week was awesome. We had this really cool meeting on Friday in Hurst, it was a training meeting for all the Sister Training Leaders and District Leaders. We basically discussed how to improve our exchanges and it was awesome. President is so inspired and we are working even harder to hasten the work of salvation. AND one of the members that gave us a ride from Denton down to Hurst (from a different ward) said that they were sealed as a family in the Salt Lake City temple in 1968 by a Brother Blood, sound familiar? AND there's an Elder Espinoza in our zone from Southern California whose Grandma's maiden name is Blood soooooo turns out we're related to everybody! Probably super distantly but still :)
Something really cool that we found out at the meeting on Friday was that President Ames has assigned two Elders to be "Spanish Training Leaders" and they are basically two elders that have a proselyting area (it's in the Hurst stake!) and are assigned to go on exchanges with ALL the spanish elders in the whole mission! craziness. President had to call Salt Lake to get permission and he is the only mission president to have done something like this. It's really cool and we're going to recieve training from them this Thursday at a Spanish conference. We're stoked.
I also went out to Decatur for a day for an exchange, it was way fun! It is such a blessing to be able to go on these exchanges, we learn and grow so much from them and it's amazing.
Also, random thought, but one of our recent converts has worked in the horses/racetrack business for basically her whole life until now and she says that she knows personally the people that the new movie "50 to 1" is based off of! So if it looks like a good movie (i know approximately zero information about it) then know that I know someone who knows those people! (how many degrees of separation? I guess somewhere around 3...? who knows...)
Dad, to answer some questions: Yeah, Gainesville isn't too big so it took a whole 3 days to get to know the 2 main roads...haha It's really helpful because both Hermana Ram and I have driving privilages so we switch off driving, which makes it even easier to get to know the area. The people here are very courteous, we haven't been yelled at as far as I can remember, but they're very polite, southern, and honest. There are also a ton of hispanics in the area so we have lots of opportunities to teach there. We do lots of "tracting" but not really, because we're not just knocking on random doors. We have been really fortunate to have very thorough records from past missionaries and so we look through their potential investigators and we try to go see them. We also have great members that share the gospel with their friends and even bring them to church! We've met some people that way. I'm looking forward to a town parade or something like that where we can just go and contact people, that will be fun! :)
Man, it sounds like y'all were nice and busy this week! I'm glad that the AHS jazz concert went well and that Nat could go with Julie V to Mormon prom! She is such a sweetheart, tell her I miss her too :) And that's cool that you could talk to an Elder from Uruguay/FT.worth/other places at Mormon Helping Hands, it sounds like there was a great turnout there. And when does that mission prep class start? There's going to be a great turnout it looks like!
Wellp, looks like this week is going to be nice and busy, we'll be in Hurst for 2 days for some meetings and I'll let you know how those go.
Love you so much! Have an amazing week this week
con amor,
Hermana Sangre
P.S. There's an Elder from my MTC zone that just sent me an email and says he's in the San Francisco stake! If you see an Elder Ah Hoy at any stake things, tell him hello.
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