So Bandon is picking up just like I knew it would. This week has been a challenge but some miracles have happened. We have found two new investigators and they both seem like they are pretty sincere so that was crazy.

We had zone training meeting which is where the zone leaders and the district leaders teach the zone so that was super weird teaching a group where literally everyone of them had been out longer than me besides the girl in training lol. Being a district leader is super weird but it's alright. It was super good to see our zone for the first time though. The coos bay zone is like the only zone that is so spread out that you only see everyone for big meetings.

Anyway, so we have been meeting with this part member family the Youngs and it's the husband, Tim who is a member and his wife Angela who is investigating. So Angela has been meeting with missionaries for years and Tim just got baptized when he met the missionaries in December. So we have really been trying to help Tim understand everything and also we have been trying to figure out what is holding Angela back. It's super difficult because Angela hates to be pushed which I totally understand but we also want her to be able to go to the temple with Tim! The thing is, Angela and Tim love me! lol It's so awesome, they are like my sub parents out here. They both really like hanging out with us and doing lessons and just yesterday Angela told us the one thing holding her back from being baptized!! It ends up some missionaries in the past had taught her that  if she gets baptized and her kids don't, she will never be able to see them again after they die!  So we are studying  super hard to teach her the truth! Literally. Everything else she believes! Tim was having a hard time paying tithing and she's like "just pay it already so we can get some blessings, stop being a baby and pay it!" Lol so they are super awesome and now she is progressing since she came to church yesterday and has been doing everything. That was a miracle.

We also moved into a new house on Wednesday so that was a lot of work and sucked but it is a nicer house I think. Bandon really is a beautiful place. And I have been lucky too have seen almost the entire coast in our zone. We went down to gold beach the other day to do service and that was awesome. And I have been all the way up through Florence because of MLC last week so it's been awesome to see so many beautiful places. So that's how Bandon is doing for the most part.  Stay solid!

Yo yo yo. This week was a good one. So there was a lot going on this week which was good and bad. We weren't able to do as much in our area as I would have liked to but we were able to go out of town quite a bit.

So here is a short account of this week... So Tuesday was a pretty normal Tuesday. We usually do about 4-5 hours of service and then we have a Book of Mormon class held by the branch Tuesday night. Brother Sturtevant teaches the class and it is always so good. These past two weeks we have gone over Jacob 5 and I have learned so much! I talked to him and thanked him for how well he does and asked him how long he puts into the lessons and he said around 10 hours. It's just super good.

Anyway, Wednesday we did an exchange in the morning so I went up to north bend with elder Fowers who is one of the zone leaders. It was a pretty good day, I had my new district leader training and I Skyped in to Eugene with elder Martin (a new district leader in north bend) so that was pretty good. We hung out a little with elder Martin and his comp elder batt and it was super tight and then we did some finding and had some lessons and it just went really well.

Thursday was by far the best day of the week. Thursday was MLC which is leadership training and so we got to go to Eugene to sit through a 5 hour conference on being leadership of the mission and all that stuff. Since I'm in the coos bay zone, it was quite a drive in to town so all of us drove in one car. It was the two zone leaders (elder hatch and elder Fowers), two other district leaders (elder Martin and elder Redding) and myself. Those rides to and from Eugene were the funniest rides ever. I'm the newest person in the car so they were telling me a bunch of stuff about the mission and all that and it was so funny. MLC it's self was good too, we talked a lot about discipline and a lot about the atonement. A lot of good stuff I needed to hear. So that entire day was taken up by that trip and it was such a day of relief. But then that night I got back to Bandon and I realized how much work I had too do here lol. I prepared my district meeting lesson which was on prayer and I think it went pretty well. I learned a lot about prayer just from preparing that talk and I think that my district learned a little from it. And OF COURSE the assistants came to my district meeting of all the ones in the mission but luckily I prepared it pretty well.

Saturday we went down to port Orford and did a bunch of contacting down there so that was good but it took a lot of time away from our area.

So that is a summary of this week, I learned a lot this week and I got to experience some new stuff. There have definitely been some struggles this transfer though. The area is still going slow, I want to say mostly because we haven't had as much time as we would have liked to be here and work but we have had some good signs. We found a few potentials and we have been having part member lessons and one of the families is way awesome!

It is super tough for me still, my comp isn't super motivated and his driving is killing me. My patience is seriously drained. Every time he drives I just close my eyes so I don't get frustrated or fear for my life.

But yeah there is a lot of good! lol. Things get tough and I'm not sure why president Russell put me in this situation but maybe I'll find out sooner or later. Another thing is I have started to see how even with how much work we do, you can just feel so unproductive everyday because no one wants to talk to you, so that can be pretty rough. Well anyway the moral of this weeks story is tough times call for tough people so I better start getting tough.... Anyway even though my comp is an awful driver the church is still true.

July 2, 2016
I'm being transferred to Bandon on Monday so I wont have a lot of time to email.  President is making me a district leader which i'm not super excited about.  I'll email you guys later. Love you!


July 11, 2016
Dang so this past week was super awesome.  I'm super pumped for this upcoming week! Bandon really is awesome I have decided lol. It's super hard work but I know we will improve the area. Lately I have been trying to be as obedient as I can so that we can have more blessings. We were way too loose in Eugene mainly because we were doing so good, so now I'm trying to step it up and work really hard and get this area going!

My comp is straight depressed that he is still in this area so he really doesn't want to do a lot. It's pretty rough but in my weekly email from president he told me my job is to come into this area uplift my comp, and get it going again. He has a lot of faith in me for some reason so hopefully I won't disappoint. It makes it a challenge when my comp isn't into it very much any more. He doesn't really want to tract or anything lol.

Things are going pretty well right now though. I'm glad to be here I'm glad to be in this situation and I'm glad I'm a missionary. I had my first district meeting and it was alright. I'm not the best teacher but I will get better. My district is super tight and the sister that is in training in this district was comps with sister Harrison in the MTC! So that's super tight.
Bandon is beautiful and there are a lot of cool people here. Most people don't like to talk to us but that's alright. Sounds like you guys have been having fun though!  We are in a branch of about 60 active and we have the less active list of about 200 lol. We have a lot of work to do.

This is the view from my bedroom window

Elder Falatea and I before the transfer