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Louisiana Baton Rouge Mission Spanish Speaking - August 2016 to August 2018

Wednesday, March 15, 2017

Week 31 - March 13, 2017

I'm back and still chillin with Elder Israelsen in Hammond!! I am glad that we get to stay together one more transfer! I think this one will be a great one!

So we have an almost entirely new district now after transfers. The first awesome thing is that we got new Elders in the district so Elder Israelsen and I aren't the only ones anymore. They are Elder Jensen and Elder Street. Elder Street is fresh out of the MTC. We got one new Sister for each companionship as well. Sister Steele is the new STL(Sister Training Leader), Sister McBride is the new Hammond Sister, and Sister Beck is the new Amite Sister. Both Sister Steele and Sister Beck came out with me.

So this past week Elder Israelsen and I got to do a lot of service. The first service that we did was with a group called TARC. They are a local group that raises money to help children in the area with disabilities. We helped cook and serve the food that they were making. We sold about 400 meals of Pastalaya. It was really good and we got to talk with a lot of people about what we do as missionaries. Our next service was on Friday before District meeting. We worked with the Kiwanis Club to pick up litter in the city. It was cool to meet more people from Kiwanis and we got free t-shirts so that is good right?!

The other big service that we did was put up drywall for about 4 hours in the Portier's home!! That was an experience. Elder Israelsen and I were the ones that were screwing it to the wall. Elder Moody was there with us. He knows what he is doing!! He worked in construction as a career and is really experienced. It was fun to learn how to put it up but after 4 hours or so of squatting to screw it in, we were really tired!! 

Other than those things this was a pretty basic week. We havent been having too much success but this past weekly planning Elder Israelsen and I made a new plan for how we are going to tackle the work in this area. We shall see this coming week if it works out! 

I hope y'all are having a great week and that everything is going your way!! Hasta proximo semana!!