Amor

 

Elder Pano and Elder Lacey

View of the coast from up on a hill

HOLA EVERYONE 

Amor=Love and wow I loved this week so much!  I love my new area, my companion, and especially the people! My new area is in a city called Salina Cruz.  It's right on the coast and it's awesome! I took a five hour bus ride to get here and the views were so beautiful!

Salina Cruz is so beautiful but its also the hottest place in the mission  It is SUPER humid but I LOVE IT!  Luckily we came in right after the hottest month ended and now the rainy season started so it feels a lot nicer! We are over one ward which has 1000 members but only about 150 were active before the pandemic and now because of Covid a lot less are active.  We are also over a branch so our area is super big and we have a lot of work to do! This is a good thing though because Elder Pano and I are super excited to go and work hard and we have been! I come home pretty exhausted every day and I love it so much!!  It feels so good to share this gospel that I love!  

A lot of this week was getting to know the members because our entire district is new to Salina Cruz so none of us knew anything Haha.  We get lost quite a bit,   Oaxacas houses don't really have numbers so address are just kinda the general area so it takes some effort to find houses Haha.  Also our area is SUPER hilly and I'm pretty sure all the members live on the tops of the hills🤣 but it's worth it because the members are so awesome! At 9 Saturday night the bishop called us and asked us to give 12 minute talks the next day at church, I was working on my talk until they called on me up to speak and then half of it didn't save, so I had to wing part of it but luckily it went really well!

My new companion is Elder Pano and he is so incredible!!  He is super spiritual and funny! It has been so fun with him and I am learning so much from him! Today he taught me the best way to wash clothes by hand so now all my shirts will be super white

This email was a bit all over the place because so much happened this week but it was truly so incredible.  Every transfer we are supposed to work on a specific Christlike attribute and for this transfer I chose love and charity.  This was the perfect place to do it because the love I feel for this place and the people is indescribable! The hand of the Lord is manifest every day here and I am so incredibly grateful to be a part of it. I know this is the Gospel of Jesus Christ and that this is His work and His glory.  He is out here with us every day.