Out of my comfort Zone....literally!

hello, world!


greetings from my new area in san benito, texas. it's awesome. we cover a little bit of a city called harlingen, and then pretty much the whole north of san benito, and a couple other little pueblitos named rio hondo and lozana. we serve in two branches with few members.. our spanish branch is just meeting in an office building in the "downtown" part of san benito. we've got a lot of work to do. san benito is beautiful and country-like. lots of roads without names and fields and dirt and palm trees and little neighborhoods that look so mexico-esque. it's very different from mcallen and mission, which are a lot like west jordan, just with more latinos. so far, the members have been so helpful. we went to the spanish branch this week for a wedding (an investigator is getting baptized, but had to get married first.) and we got to meet lots of the members and they are just the sweetest and most faithful people ever. a lot of them are new converts themselves... one of the converts in our area just got baptized a month ago and is already in the young women's presidency. it's pretty amazing because since people get responsibilities so fast, they strengthen their faith and stay active and everybody helps each other. it's pretty amazing.

we've been feeling a little overwhelmed... our area is about three times as big as my last area was (and my last area was pretty darn big) and we don't really have a clue where we're going. but somebody said in church this week that "faith doesn't grow in comfort zones" so i know that this experience will only build my faith. i was definitely in my own little comfort zone their in mission for so long.

we did find a cool girl yesterday named Amber.. she's sixteen. we set a baptismal date with her for the 17th of april. she's really awesome. so we are slowly building up the area. hopefully we'll see some good things happening.

anyway... not much else to update on. definitely looking forward to my p-day nap right now. hope you're all doing swell.

love,

me