Howdy todos! Things in San Jose are golden. My new comp is Elder Gana, he's got one month in the mission and hes a baller. He just absolutely radiates energy and i love it. He doesn't know English, but we've been working on the basics like "groovy" and "radical." Theres something super refreshing about being with a new missionary, there is so much faith and hope present. Sometimes we'll be walking and he'll start skipping or humming hehe i love him.
As for San Jose, i'm back in a Sistrict! (Only hermanas in my district,) Tennessee prepared me well for this moment. #beastdistrictTN
Theres a lot to do in San Jose, i'm not white washing or anything but my companion, being so new, doesnt know the area, Branch or amigos any better than i do. I also haven't trained or had a leadership assignment before, so we're doing a lot of flying in the dark. Good thing this is Christs church and he's in charge, or we would have crashed by now😅
The Lord has helped us out a ton though. In the three and a half days i've been here, we've recieved four references😶 I can't really be sure, but i think i had recieved 4 references in all my mission up to San Jose. One of the references was absolutely nuts, the note attached said, "i want to be baptised by a pastor in the church of Joseph Smith." I hadn't seen anything like that before, me and my comp were ecstatic. We celebrated with some good ol ecco (W.o.W. approved coffee) We went to jose (the guy)'s house later, and he took us on a nature walk and we talked about Joseph Smith and rocks.
Other milagro: our Branch had 34 people attend🥳🥳
Other things that happened:
- Mission conference with President Christensen of the 70
- there is a dunkin donuts in this zone
- we were walking, and this one dude sees me and started freaking out. He starts fumbling with his phone, and then shows me a picture of Paul Walker.
Something that has been a huge lesson for me this last week has been to not overcomplicate the work. Theres lots of little things to do, lots of little talents to develop, and all these things add to our burden. Elder Uchtdorf teaches in his latest talk that we are physically unable to do all that we want to do. What we can do, and what our only focus should be, is loving and serving Christ and others. He tells us that we should not look at everything that we have to do as separate tasks, but that we should love and serve. If we look at everything we need to do, and look at it as though its a bunch of little ways to love and serve, we will feel less overwhelmed amd have more joy.
Love yall!!
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