New Transfer

 Hola a todos!

 This week has been a bit wild and lasted an eternity, but looking back at it it passed by super fast.

 Monday, we went to a lookout over the Rio. Saw some people get picked up by the border patrol. 

 Tuesday, we went to McAllen to pick up Elder Taylor. There wasn’t too much happening in our zone transfer wise so we were able to get on the road again pretty quick. 

 Wednesday, we met with our new zone over zoom and got to know each other. Then later we just had a ton of lessons planned. A lot of them fell through. Then had dinner with a member named Sister Portillo. She showed us how to make tamales and then we ate Rosca. Which is sugar bread that has little baby Jesus hidden in it. Whoever got the baby had to make tamales and throw a party. Elder Taylor ended up getting it. Later we had our youth activity and we painted books of Mormon and wrote our testimonies in them. 

 Thursday, we ate with Elvira in the morning, she is such a sweet old lady. Then we went over to another member’s and helped her clean her house and put her things in boxes so she can move out. We were able to have a few more lessons that night. 

 Friday, we had MLC. That took up most of the day and then on our way back we called the other elders who live 20 minutes from us to see if we could do splits because we had lessons and branch work to do. So we made three different companionships. I stayed and did branch work and then a couple hours later we got a call from a member inviting us to eat at Chili's with them. So we got there as fast as we could. They joked that we said we will be there in 20 minutes and it only took us five which is an exaggeration, but we were hungry jaja. 

 Saturday the sisters baptized a guy named Christopher. Again, just a whole bunch of different lessons. Some over Facebook, others over a phone call and others in person. We met this guy named Third. We were trying to teach his sister’s family, but they always were "too busy".  We talked to him and shared about baptism. He asked how come we had never talked to him before and seems super excited to make a goal for baptism next lesson. 

 Sunday we again just ran around like crazy getting ready for church. We had 33 people there, the most ever! I confirmed Christopher. Then we had to do tithing, but a member forgot theirs, so we had to go to their house, and they live far away. Then we did tithing and finally were able to eat. Had some lessons and contacts on Facebook and then went to dinner with a member. After that we had a zoom meeting with all the branches before we were finally able to go home. It was super crazy and stressful. 

 Hope you all have a great week!
Elder Tolman