Oh man. What a week! My new companion is Elder Matthew Josse from Cedar Hills, Utah! He came in the mission the same time as Elder Price did, so he has been out a while. He went on Heritage Tours too! Just the year before me. He is such a good companion. Elder Price had a hard time contacting people, and so I had a problem too. But, I was praying for a companion that was super good at contacting, like Elder Toronto, and I got one! He is not afraid to talk to anyone about anything. And he has really pushed me to do it too. Like, last Thursday, we were sitting in the car, calling potentials, and a family drove up to their house, returning from buying groceries. Elder Josse was on the phone with someone, so he told me to go and contact the family. I thought, "OMJ. I cannot do that!" But, I did it! It was so cool. All in Spanish too! Man. I love Spanish. These past few weeks, Spanish has really been clicking in my head. Things that didn't make sense before, make 100% sense now. It's so cool. We are so blessed to be here learning Spanish. My mind is blown all the time when our district gets together, because we are all a bunch of white kids (except Elder Chavez, he's Mexican) speaking Spanish to each other! It's so cool. Another thing Elder Josse is teaching me during contacting is splitting up. When I was with Elder Price, I would always stay with him and talk to the same person as him. But, Elder Josse has encouraged me to split up when other people walk by, so we can get more contacts and talk to more people. That has really helped as well.
So, Elder Price got moved to English work and went to Carlsbad. It was really weird because a few weeks before, he asked President Cook if he could send his English stuff home, and President Cook said yes. Then, at transfer meeting, Elder Price got called into English work! So, he is an English missionary, with no English materials! I am in the same apartment with Elder Josse now. Elder Josse and I get along really good. He is such a hard worker and I have so many things to learn from him.
I did receive the blanket! Thank you! It's perfect! And sending those mangoes was probably a mistake... I am addicted now! They are soooooo good... That was the last package that I had received.
Sounds like you had a good Easter! Easter here was church, then out talking to people. Not much, but it was still really fun! Where do Brigg and Janet live? They probably live in a different stake. With the Spanish ward we have here, it covers 3 different stakes. Elder Josse and I cover the RSM (Rancho Santa Margarita) stake; Elder Gibbons and Elder Chavez cover the Mission Viejo stake; and Hermana Allsop (she's new too!) and Hermana Kohrman cover the Laguna stake. And so, the English missionaries in their area are ones I have never met or seen. I have only been down to the Laguna area once, to drop off Elder Toronto with someone else. That's exciting they live so close though! It's too bad I can't see them :(
Spring Break is this week here too! How exciting!
For the special Easter thing the Church was doing, President Cook allowed us all to get on Facebook to write a comment. I didn't think it would have been so tempting to look at everything else on Facebook! It's changed a lot in the past five months! It was really cool to see some comments made on that website. It was a really good way to have others see mormon.org too. It was only over the weekend, but we had a lot of people go there! Almost everyone we talked to!
I really hope everything is okay at home! Sounds like Dad and Jaxon are going through some rough times... I have them in my prayers every night. And everyone else at home too!
Tell Gordon thanks for his wedding announcement and tell him congrats for me! I got it sometime last week, but after I did email.
Grandma and Grandpa are on their way to Martin's Cove today?! Wow! That's so exciting! I was going to reply to the letter they sent me a while ago, but I guess that would be pointless now haha. Do they have an address up there where I can send them mail?
So, yeah. That's all I have this week. Have a fantastic week!
Love, Elder Hunt
P.S. Sending mangoes was not a mistake. I was kidding. Send more :) please :)
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