First Week of Training

well my new companion is Elder Connor Dickson. he is from gilbert arizona! he loves volleyball, choir, orchestra. he is the youngest in his family. his dad is a bishop and is 61 years old. Elder Dickson is actually only 4 days older than me. he attended a semester at byu idaho before coming on his mission! he is really cool and loves missionary work! we go out and work and it really helps me because he has so much desire to improve and be better! he actually has really good spanish for coming out of the mtc and so that is really helpful! all in all he is a good guy! it is really hard though carrying the whole area on my shoulders. i had to do a whole weekly planning basically on my own! (planning every hour of the next week by myself!) i am keeping up with it and i have definately felt the lords blessings helping me! please pray for me that i will be able to be happy and have the energy to keep going! 

Thanks for the package mom! i love the socks! elder smith opened it and he saw the bag of white powder and says, "oooohhhh! i see what your parents send you!!! (cocain)" haha it was pretty funny!

i dont have a lot more time but a super cool miracle that happened this week was that we were going to knock a street that we had chosen from the map the night before and when we got there it didnt exist! so we are biking around the neighborhood (cuz our car was in the shop) and i felt like we should knock the street that we were on. so we knock one side and then run into the other english elders! we talked for a bit and they delayed us, then we proceeded to knock the other side! we had no luck until the last door. the guy drove up to the door at the exact moment that we got there and he gets out and asks us to come in! he had a lot of things going on in his life and he was at the hospital when he said a prayer just asking for help. then when he got home he saw us! and he knew it was an answer to his prayers and we knew it was an answer to our prayers! it was so cool! we have to give him to the english elders but we know he will be great!

thats all for today folks and hope you have a good one!