This week has been a wild week!

Whitewashing into this area has been crazy!  Elder Hatch and I both got here on Monday so neither one of us had any idea how to get around town, who our investigators were or who any members were.  lol  But despite all that, I think this week was the hardest I've worked my entire mission!

Monday we were out as long as we could be trying to contact as many of investigators as possible after P day.  And let me tell you, the mornings and evenings have been seriously cold this week!  It's been straight painful being outside knocking doors, contacting, and getting lost constantly.  And on top of trying to figure ourselves out the entire week, we had to keep track of the whole zone and figure out all of their stuff for their areas and transfers.

Being a Zone Leader is definitely what I expected....It's not my favorite thing.  We have several missionaries in the zone that we have to check on since they aren't super focused and we are supposed to correct people if they aren't being obedient.  I don't really enjoy that at all especially because I feel like I've been the one who has been pretty relaxed with rules, not only throughout the beginning of my mission, but like my entire life.  So it's one of those things that I don't enjoy at all. Luckily, since I've been corrected many times in my life when I was being stupid, I think usually we are pretty good at still being homies with the other missionaries even when making sure we are all following the rules.

Elder Hatch is definitely, by far, the hardest working companion I've had yet. It has been a great week and we literally haven't taken a full lunch the entire week because we are going hard in teaching lessons and finding people.  Our area is doing well already.  We invited a few people to be baptized this week and we have three on date.  We have quite a few progressing and had some super cool lessons.  

I would say the highlights of the week were, number 1-We found a family of 12 and they are all new investigators, so that was crazy.  All the kids except 4 were over 8 and they were super into it. It was awesome!  They're from LA too!  Number 2 is probably this kid from the YSA ward. He is a straight G and referred several people over to us and we should be teaching them this week.  And I can't think of a number three so I guess that's it.  haha

Make sure to have a great week this week.  I love and miss you all
Stay Solid

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