New Companion, and General Conference

Wow ok so I think I left off at transfers. This whole week has been a blur. So my new companion is Hermana Espinoza and she's awesome! She's been out here for like 15 months already and it's nice having a companion who has a ton of experience and is good with the language. 

I miss Hermana Holding SO MUCH. We had gotten so close and had all of these amazing plans for this upcoming transfer and it's been hard transitioning to a different Hermana but she's doing awesome in her new area and we've been able to make a lot of progress here in Cruces. Besides that I don't think anything too eventful happened. 

Our investigators have been doing well, steady progress which is all we can really ask for. It finally has been getting under 100 degrees here and we've had a lot of cool lightning storms recently which is one of my favorite things so that's been a really nice little tender mercy. 

We've found a lot of new investigators and are finally busy again which is a missionary's favorite thing. The more appointments we have to figure out how to juggle, the more people that want to hear about God and that's pretty cool. 

We just got back from visiting Hatch, New Mexico, green chili capital of the world! Some Hermanas that cover that area live in this cool remodeled Catholic church with a bell tower and everything that a member up there owns so we got a tour of the church and played sand volleyball in the courtyard which was so nice since I haven't been able to play volleyball since I left the CCM. We didn't do much in town but hopefully I'll be able to visit there again soon! They seriously just have chilies drying out on the roofs and hanging from beams and all sorts of crazy stuff.

But of course the best part of this week was being able to listen to General Conference. We got to watch all of the sessions in a local church building here (I ended up becoming the "tech guy" somehow and help set up the broadcast and the translators for my ward members who came). The whole time I couldn't help but think about what a privilege and a blessing it is that twice a year we get to listen to inspired leaders of the church, working under God's direction and authority, give us advice and council on how to live better, and happier lives and how to be more centered on Christ. 

 All of the talks given where AMAZING and it's so hard to pick just one thing to focus on this week because I learned so much. This was one of my favorite quotes though: