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Well, hello there!

Primeramente, here is my new address:

1912 Summer Breeze Apt A

Mission TX 78572

I'm serving in the city of Mission, in the zone of Hidalgo. My area is called "Palmhurst West," and it's brand new. Kind of.

This week I learned (once again) that I basically have no idea what I'm doing, but God is really ultra merciful.

So, on Monday afternoon they told us where everyone was going and they told me I was going to Palmhurst, and then people started saying "Oh! There's already a greenie there! You'll be finishing training her." So I was all mentally prepared for that. Then we went to transfers and I went up to the girl I thought I was going to finish training, and she and her companion told me that, no, they were opening up another area and I was getting a brand new greenie! Yessssss.

So, my greenie and I are whitewashing!

 

Her name is Sister Moore, she's from California, and she's super wonderful. The first couple of days I felt a little overwhelmed because she was super great and I was feeling like there wasn't a whole lot I could actually teach her. She's been so willing to jump in and act, and miracles are going to happen.

 

One of the first miracles is that our district leader, Elder Lindsay, was a missionary that was serving in Brownsville with me, so even though I didn't know anyone else in our new zone and district, we knew each other. We were friends before, and now we're tight and it's been such a blessing. We have many exceptional missionaries here in the TMM, and Elder Lindsay is definitely one of them. From the get-go here we've our district has had super great unity and a lot of focus, and I've seen a lot of blessings emotionally and physically and spiritually.   

 

Since we had little/no information at the beginning, our first efforts here have been valiant but a little pathetic. However, we're finally getting to know our members and our area and this area is wonderful. We have 23 active members in our area, and then 40 some-odd less actives, so we have lots of members in a small space (our area is mostly a biking area - we share a car with the other sisters that we live with, but their area is a lot further and bigger, so we bike/walk a lot. It's good :) ). So anyway, we've come up with some good plans and I am so excited to be able to work through the ward more.

 

Our fourth of July was pretty great - in the morning we went to the Stake Pancake and Breakfast Taco Breakfast (welcome to South Texas), where all of the missionaries sang the national anthem, then we went home and did some studies and then went to the ward activity. It was at the house of a member who has a zoo! like, seriously. He has this huge house out in the country and he has zebras and camels and horses and swans and probably other things too. It's not really set up like a zoo, but it was incredible. After that we went and did service with the elders (Scraping paint off of the garage doors of an investigator), got ice cream, and then went home at 6 to do weekly planning. We didn't see any fireworks, but we could hear them :)

 

Yesterday the 3 sets of missionaries that work in this ward met with the Bishop to get his vision and make plans for how we can work in this ward, then we had church, and then we went out working. We were having a pretty unsuccessful night, but then we found a less-active member who gave us rhubarb jelly, and then we were walking back to our car when we heard "SISTERS!" we looked over, and there were the AP's! They were at the house of the Stake President (who lives in our area) and they invited us in, and it turns out that they were having a lesson there with 2 recent converts along with 2 other missionaries. So the 6 of us were in the lesson, and then at the end they ended up thinking of 3 people they want us to meet with. It was such a big miracle and helped us feel like our efforts, pitiful though they may be, are recognized :)

 

Much love to you all! I forgot my cord to my camera,  but I'll send pictures next week :)

Love,

Hermana Reynolds