This one is like really long for some reason. Sorry there was a lot to share.
Monday was crazy, we did so many things. Kind of like a last hurrah before I went to Zapata. We went tie digging with Elder Borup and Elder Johanson our homiez. I found a lot of pretty cool ties, we went to top golf and hung our with Elder Kibaribari, Bunderson, Ward, Roblyer, Carrasco and a bunch of other people. I said good bye to all the sisters that were there too.
Then we went to Pharr Chapel. We went and got food then basically just hung out with our district for the rest of the night. Elder Kibaribari, Bunderson, Ward, and Roblyer also hung out with us. It was awesome!! Jill's baptism also happened that same night. For a minute I felt like I was going crazy and stressing over everything. But when she got baptized the spirit was so strong there. It made me take a second to pause. It was such a special thing to witness. She was so happy too! Then we cleaned everything up and went into the attic. Every missionary that has served in the Pharr ward get's to sign the attic. There's soo many names on the wall. It's like a huge maze to get back to the spot. But my name is on the building and that made me feel pretty good. We said goodbye to all our homiez. 😠Which was super sad! But it's okay. I know I'll eventually see them again.
Tuesdays was transfers. I got to see so many of my friends from other areas!!!! What a phat blessing. I got my new compa Hermana Miller. She's a reassigned missionary and she served in Argentina before. She's from Utah. She was actually in my zone before so I already knew her. That always helps.
We loaded our stuff up got the keys, address, everything then said goodbye to more people. 😢ðŸ˜
Then we made our way to Zapata. It's in the middle of no where hahahha. It's 2 hours away from McAllen and an hour away from the closest Walmart in Laredo. What fun! We got situated ate some food then actually drove all the way to Laredo. We spent the night over there so we can have a zone meeting the next day and go shopping too.
Wednesday we had a meeting, went shopping and drove back to Zapata. We got even more situated in our new apartment. THIS PLACE IS HUGE AND SO NICE. It was the senior couples old apartment so you know it's super nice.
We got to walk around and get to know our area a little more. Ended up being given a broken pool table stick to beat the dogs with so that was amazing. We use it everytime we walk the streets now. 😂Blessings from God.
Thursday was pretty amazing! Elder Borup and Elder Johansen came up from McAllen to put license plates on our brand new car. My friends!!!!! They were in my old district. PHARR CHAPEL TONIGHT.
That made my day so much better. They got food and we hung out with them for a bit at the little baby chapel. Which by the way was a funeral home at one point. So we showed them the room they used to prep the bodies. It sounds creepy. But the place is super cute!!! After I said goodbye to them for like the third time in a row we went to a service project. We helped this guy from our branch get his little museum place lookin all nice for a family history video. Ahhh Zapata is great.
We ate a members house that night too! And my dad had his birthday. Woohooo!!!
Happy birthday papi!
Friday was dope!! We had some planning and studies then we were on the streets. We also went to the church and printed of parts of the big map we're making. Then we had a little meet n greet lesson thing with Adolfo and Rocio. Adolfo is soo prepared. He has a baptismal date for the 19th. And we get to help them get married. Woohoo more weddings to decorate for. But they were super sweet and we felt welcomed in by them. He'll honestly be the branch president or something like that. Haha
Saturday was wet! It dumped a lot. We tried visiting some members but we couldn't find the house or call them because we were like 20 feet from Mexico so I didn't have a signal. But we took some awesome pics at the famous spots in Zapata! We also get to like knock doors??? So we went contacting in a nieghborhood that had some potentials. We didn't find a ton of people...but we sure did found a lot of puppies. I'm now the puppy mamas. They loved me and I loved them. I asked my comp if we could take one home but she said no 😢. I told her she better keep me in line these next few months. Hahaha
Sunday morning it dumped some more rain on us. What a blessing!! We had Adolfo and Rocio come to church. And Alan went to our zoom church. It ws so amazing. We walked the streets looking for some members that drove away as we pulled up. So we walked down the road and this little kid rides up on his bike and asks if we talk about God? Hahahaha he was super cute...like maybe 8. Then he talked and we walked by him and he brought us to his friends. And more puppies. I ended up playing football with them on the street. It was so fun!! I miss throwing a football around. But then we ended our night by having a really good lesson with Alan. He has some fire questions and genuinely wants to find the truth. He's really nice!!!
I hope your week was great and full of small miracles because those are everywhere. I love you all and miss you mucho.
Stay 2 legit 2 quit my friends.
Con todo mi amor,
Hermana Darling
Pictures!!!!
*Our like literal family as a district with our Pharr Chapel Tonight shirts we designed
*Jill and her baptism!!!
*My new compa Hermana Miller
*My FAVORITE WALL in Zapata the famous cactus wall
*Welcome to Zapata sign
*found a helicopter
*me and my babies
*a turantula we sliterally saw running across the street a lil creepy but hilarious
*the big Z sign that is in our church
*our broken pool table stick for the crazy doggos here
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