Exchanges!

 Hola a todos!

 This week was pretty busy. We had to do a few exchanges and so I was barely in our area! But we were still able to teach a lot of cool people!

 So, on Tuesday we had a meeting with some of the leaders in the mission. So, we had to drive to McAllen for that. That basically lasted all day.

 Then on Wednesday we had a zone meeting and then some people to visit. We taught this one family, and they had a lot of questions and weren't quite understanding well. In the end they did but it took over an hour to get through it. We rushed over to a member’s house. They are the 1st counselor in the branch presidency and relief society president. They are our strongest members but because they had COVID-19 we haven’t done much with them. We got some names of families to work with and they said they are going to work more diligently too! I’m so grateful for them. Then we had a lesson fall through and we were supposed to have a member present so instead we brought the member to someone else. We taught the restoration for the third time to him. Hopefully he understood it this time. Then we had mutual, but we had to leave early to do our first exchange.

 So, all day Thursday I was in Raymondville with Elder Allred. I missed being with him and we had a good time! We also set someone on BD! 

 Friday I was back in Rio, but we had to go to McAllen to get the state inspection for our car. They ended up changing tires and oil too so we didn’t get home until 5:30! That was not fun. We did a lot of Facebook and were supposed to have two lessons over Facebook, but they fell through. We went over to a guy named Sergio. Him and his wife came to church last week and we taught them the restoration. They had doubts about Joseph Smith and what they had read online, but we invited them to read and pray and so hopefully they get their answer. 

 Saturday I was in Roma. Back with Elder Taylor and Elder England. They are super good missionaries, just both super young in the mission so their Spanish is still progressing. But they had 2 people on date and while I was with them, we were able to put 1 more person on date. It was pretty exciting!

 Sunday, we had Frank come to church. He didn’t want to but we convinced him to come. So he might not be the most progressing person right now but we hope his attitude will change. Sergio and his family didn’t come which was sad. After church we ordained the sisters recent convert a deacon and then had a little meeting with the branch president. After that we ate lunch and planned our activities out for the month. Then visited some members. We were able to visit someone Elder Jordan had taught while I was gone his name is Rigo. We stopped by and his friends were over and talking about how they can never be happy, and they wouldn't believe us when we said they could. It was sad. But in the end, they left and we just talked to Rigo. He accepted to be baptized on February 13. We are excited for that!

 I hope you all had a great week. Remember God loves you and is always there for you. As we strive to follow the counsel of President Nelson to hear Him, then we will see so many more blessings and miracles in our life!

 Les quiero mucho!
Elder Tolman