New Years:
We had to be in early again (to avoid any hazardous situations due to intoxication and the like), so ended up having a kind of different day. We had gone up to Calallen (by Corpus Christie) for an exchange and got back in the afternoon, and then had a zone meeting with the other missionaries and then we got to watch the Polar Express together (every year on New Year's the missionaries get to watch a movie). I had anticipated that watching a movie would be strange, but it wasn't as different as I had anticipated. I guess a year isn't quite long enough to make movie-watching weird. :) There were lots of fireworks that night - none that we saw, but definitely a lot that we could hear. It was super loud. There's a town near Laredo called Zapata (that has a pretty
Working in our area:
We have a "standard of excellence" for the mission (what a companionship should be able to accomplish in a week if they're working correctly) for the key indicators - lessons taught with a member present, new investigators found, etc. PMG explains it pretty well. As leadership, we're supposed to accomplish all of the goals for that Standard of Excellence to set the example, and this transfer we've learned a LOT about how merciful the Lord is when it comes to sacrifice. When I was in Laredo, we could accomplish all of our goals every week, even if we weren't there for a day. But now, we often aren't in our area for about half of the week (because of exchanges, etc), so we've had to re-learn how to plan and how to ask God for miracles so that we can work in other sisters' areas and still get everything done that we need to. There have been many miraculous days where we haven't been in our area all week, and then we'll find 5 new investigators in one day. I think more and more I'm just realizing that God can do anything he wants to do - we just have to be on the same page with Him :)
That's it for this week! Love you all
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Hermana Reynolds
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