New Area!!

This last week has been a really good week.

On Tuesday, for p-day we just played basketball at the church building, because there is not anything to do out here....so just sports we get to play. After P-day was finished we went over to our bishop's house for dinner and a lesson/get to know them. It went really well!!!

On Wednesday we did service for the food bank. We help them bag up a whole bunch of food and get ready to be shipped to local areas in need. Then we did service for a family in the ward. We helped them mow their lawn, and do yard work for them. Then we met with another family in the ward and got to know them. Then we had a ward activity at night- "Carne Asada"- where we ate carne asada, and mingled with the ward. We had to leave the party early, because we had to travel down to Calexico to go meet with a guy. His name is Ben Horton. He works with a member, and wanted to know more about the church. He wanted to meet with us. He is super humble....and he is going to make a great ward member.

On Thursday we had weekly planning.....that was fun as usual. Then we had dinner with a member- the Bank's.

Friday we had a big long meeting with the mission president- called MTE (missionary training exchange). We met for a while, got training, then we added a companion for the next 24 hours. He went with us and taught us how we can become better missionaries. and what we can work on to improve the work in our area. We met with Tom and got him even more ready for baptism on the 15th.  We went and had dinner with a family in Calexico.

Saturday we had MTE follow up. Where we just talked about some of the miracles that we had happen during the MTE. We had Lunch with a Less Active member who wants back to church. We also had a lesson with Savannah (who is a recent convert). We had choir practice because we had to sing at stake conference at the adult session. We went to the adult session and we sang....Stake conference was a great time.

Sunday we went to the church early so that Tom can have his baptism interview...which he passed. And then enjoyed stake conference. Two general authorities came and talked to us/reorganized the stake presidency. They were Elder Lawrence and Elder Bassett. After conference we had dinner with members.

Monday we had zone meeting for 3 hours, then zone lunch afterwards. Then we tried to visit with some more members and get to know them.

Tuesday we had p-day and we played volleyball and basketball. After p-day was over we met with the Sander's Family (who ended up making us dinner-so we had double dinner because we ate before meeting with them), and the had a friend named Drew who want the missionary lessons and that is why we met with them. He is really wanting to learn about our church. He has gone to church with the sanders many times. He is ready to be a member.

So that is my week in a nutshell....

With the upcoming holiday of Thanksgiving we need to remember to continually be thankful. I suggest watching this Mormon Message about thanks. http://www.mormonchannel.org/video/mormon-messages?v=910930407001

In a talk by Elder Russell M. Nelson he says: How much better it would be if all could be more aware of God’s providence and love and express that gratitude to Him.

Let us all be thankful for everything we have.

Love you all

Love Elder Betts