Hereford Week 6

More Cows....of course!!!

I hope you are ready to go shopping... Because you're going to need to buy a New Mexico State Flag! Whoo! At the beginning of my mission I really wanted to go to New Mexico, but then I heard that if you stay in Texas your whole mission you get "Texas Ranger" status. Well, I guess I just lost that. It's ok though. I'm super excited to go out there! Elder Walker is leaving Hereford too. Sad day for both of us. It's super funny though because Elder Walker is going to be companions with Elder Powell for his last transfer! And my new companion's name is Elder Ramirez. And guess what? I'm training! He's a new missionary. This should be super exciting. It's always been my dream to become a trainer. I will also be a district leader out there. Since my only form of leadership before has been senior companion, I am nervous. So, please send all the extra prayers this week that I will be able to help out my district the best I can and most importantly that I will be able to help Elder Ramirez adjust into the mission field and be a good companion for him.

Typical Texas, having beautiful skies. I wonder how New Mexico will be... That's where Javier and Flo are from, so it must be pretty cool I imagine :)

Here we are last night over with Sergio's family. Everyone isn't there in this picture though. Silvia (in the back) made us Pasole. It's a super good Mexican soup. It's like the same as Menudo (that gross stuff), but with actually good meat. You can see the huge chunks of it sticking out.

 

This week we went out to Friona again. Before we made the road trip back I had the bright idea of stopping at DQ. How could we not?

And after we took this second picture, we all couldn't stop laughing for like 5 minutes because my eyes look like they're about to pop out of my head. And I got Sergio to try an orange Julius, and he loved it. In fact, he got a dog that day and he name his Julius because of that. haha!

My planner for this transfer

Since we didn't have a baptism this last transfer I am really praying hard that we can have one this coming transfer. I think that would be especially cool for Elder Ramirez. And summer starts this transfer and I was just thinking of water, so that's the second reason for the baptism pictures. Oh, and the name of the place in New Mexico that I am going to is Artesia. I know nothing about it, except that Elder Ramirez and I will be in for a surprise because both of us will be new there. I've never done that before either.

Guess who learned how to do some minor sewing?

I won't go into too much detail about all the investigators that we have since I will be moving on. However, I will tell you that Silvia is really close to being baptized. She is doing better on smoking, but still not off it quite yet. And this week we met both of Sergio's sisters. They are really nice, and we are having a lesson with one of them tonight. His family is for sure my favorite family in Hereford. I will miss them a bunch. Silvia came to church on Sunday. So did Shawn and Abigale. Abigale is the sister-in-law of another recent convert out in Friona. There is a lot going on here in Hereford right now. I pray that the new missionaries coming in here will be able to baptize all these investigators that are so close!

Well family, it's been a short run here in Hereford, but a good one. I'll try to get pictures with a few more cows here in town before I leave, but I don't know if I will get them all. Dad, it looks like your prediction of me staying a while didn't come true, but your theory of me steadily moving west proved to be correct. Make sure you all go the pool for me every week! I love you mom! I love you dad! I love you Meagan! I love you Courtney!