oh man. So, surprise. The address I gave y'all last time was incorrect. We're actually living with members (in like a garage behind their house that they converted into a sweet awesome apartment) so the real address is...
227 E. Hird St.
Gainesville, TX 76240
Another surprise. So I got to transfers on Wednesday and met Hermana Ram (who is AWESOME by the way!) and she told me that we were also whitewashing into the English area! Craziness. So Whitewashing is when two completely new missionaries go into an area and take over the previous set of missionaries' investigators. Summary: Hermana Ram was already in the Gainesville English ward working with the Spanish population, but the day I got to Gainesville, the English elders left and now we're the only set of missionaries for the whole ward (plus the senior couple in our ward, who are super sweet!). AKA we're the first set of "SPANGLISH" missionaries here. Probably ever. The ward boundaries cover half of the Denton Stake and Gainesville the town itself is preeeeeeeeetty tiny. But there's TONS of Hispanic people, so that's awesome. Lots of open space and "county roads" and cows and chickens and farms and lots of driving (yes, we still have a car! yessss).
In terms of Sister Training Leader stuff, we went to my first "Mission Leadership Council" this week with all the Zone Leaders and Sister Training Leaders for this mission: 15 zones and 7 sets of Sister Training Leaders. I hear it's grown a ton and it was an AWESOME meeting. We all counseled together to work on the things that the mission needs to improve and now we get to go on exchanges and tell all the sisterswhat we learned! We serve 4 sets of Sister in the Denton/Justin/Decatur area and we should be going on an exchange this week. I'm excited!
Hermana Ram is suuuper cool! She's from Hawaii and she has been out about a year. She's been in Gainesville for 3 months and we're anticipating she'll be here for a total of 6 but we'll see what happens there. She's super chill and a really hard worker and does great missionary work! I'm excited to work with her.
The work here is crazy, because we can literally teach anyone we want to--we don't have to worry about English or Spanish because we cover both! But this week we taught more Spanish, and that's probably what we'll focus on more throughout the transfer, because President wants there to be a Spanish Branch in Gainesville eventually, so that's what we're gonna get. Lots of Hispanic less actives and LOTS of potential investigators, so we've got our work cut out for us! :) We will never be bored ever because there is literally so much work to do and it's going to be AWESOME. I LOVE gainesville! I know I'm going to learn a lot (heck, I've already learned a ton and I haven't even been here a week!) and we're going to be eating lots of good southern cookin ;) I may end up missing my good 'ole Spanish Ward rice and beans :) but I'm way excited for this area!
Not a lot of time, but we have a cool story about this guy named "J F" that I'm going to tell y'all next week---remind me!
Sounds like y'all had a good week, glad Youth Conference turned out well and that Nat's concert went well! (Great to Hear from you, Nat!) :) Have a good time at Hearst Castle with Lisa and Riley! And good luck to Caleb and Michele who officially moved to LA!!!
Also: please excuse my frequent use of "y'all." I swore I would never say it...and here I am all Texan and stuff. What can I say....
I love you all soooooo much!
con amor,
Hermana Sangre
(p.s. President called on me in MLC's to share a thought I had and he called me "hermana Sangre." it was a pretty proud moment.)
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