Hola!

Wow ok this week has been crazy! 

I'm definitely in New Mexico because it's really hot here but it's starting to cool down I guess because we actually haven't gotten up to triple digits the past few days I think. Also, Las Cruces is the home of New Mexico State University so we actually live right next to it! 

The people here are AMAZING. Like seriously everyone is so nice and gracious and even the people who don't want to talk to us (usually) are still nice about it. 

The ward here is a lot smaller than I'm used to and we have a lot of work to do to help them but they are amazing and I am just astounded by their strength every time I meet a new family. The area Hermana Holding and I cover is huge and we just have the south half of the ward! Our little part is probable about the same size as Roseville (so like 20 to 30 minutes to get to the opposite side) but less populated because people her like to have some land and there's some farming area and orchards and stuff. It's really pretty in some spots, it kind of reminds me of driving down Riego Road back home. 

Hermana Holding and I get along really well (which I'm so happy about, two amazing companions in a row!) and we both just really want to get to work and do our part here as best we can. We have a couple investigators that we're working with teaching right now but I haven't been able to meet all of them yet. No one is really close to baptism yet but that just gives us more opportunities to teach them and get to know them! 

Oh so pretty much everyone here speaks English really well so we actually hardly ever use Spanish but Hermana and I have been trying to be more diligent and pushing ourselves with the language so that when we do teach someone who only speaks Spanish we can be ready. The members here are really awesome at helping us learn Spanish and there's this one really sweet elderly sister, Hermana Garcia, who loves to have us over and she helps us a lot with grammar rules and stuff. I think someone said she used to teach Spanish in a school somewhere but anyways she's an amazing teacher and we love spending time with her and helping her with her yard and stuff. 

Well we certainly have a lot of work to do here, we've mostly been focusing on getting to know the members better and showing them how we're here and ready to work and that they can trust us because this area has had a history of disobedient or just not hard working elders but we're here to fix that! So yeah, it's been a good but crazy week and there's a lot left to go!