Hey everyone!! so just a quick update on my life. Today was transfers! i cant believe it but i got transfered! im now officially in Guadalajara! im in the tlaquepaque stake and in the tapatio ward! i was pretty suprised honestly, i really thought i was going to stay another transfer in my other area, but oh well i know im here because the lord needs me! anyways this last week was pretty awesome! we had alot of cool things happen and it was a great week to work without having too many meeting or things like that to worry about! Tuesday was normal with the district meetings, after that we got the whole zone together and listened to the last testimonies of Elder Menchu and Sister Allen since they have ended their mission! i always love hearing those testimonies, it just reminds me how special this work is and how lucky i am to be a part of it! and also how much we have to take advantage of this short time that we have! Wednesday was pretty normal as well as far as the work goes. Thursday was 100% crazy though!! the sisters in our ward had a baptism planned for that night, so like usual they ask for our help to clean the baptismal font and fill it up. Well we started filling it up at about 3 pm, and the baptism was supposed to be at 730, so plenty of time to fill. Well when we got there, just our luck, there was no more water! so the font had only filled up to knee height!! that was a little scary. Also it was supposed to start at 730, but the baptismal candidates along with the sister missionaries didnt show up till about 845!!! (we have to be home at 930 as missionaries or else we get in big trouble). so we literally were running throughout the whole church handing them the baptismal clothes and telling them to change. Rather than having a normal baptismal program that takes about an hour, we sang a hymn, prayed, a short 10 minute talk, then the baptism!! An adorable family got baptized, an 8 year old boy, a 16 year old boy, and the mom! the only tough part was that the 16 year old boy had to be baptized 3 times since there was hardly no water and they couldnt get all his clothes under the water haha! that was really fun( once again the sisters giving me more stress haha). Friday we said goodbye to the missionaries that ended their missions, Elder Fullmer stayed with us after since His companion ended his mission. Saturday we had an awesome stake activity! we did a day in the mission field! the stake organized a bunch of little workshops like about how to talk to people, how to iron your clothes, how you should dress, missionary things like that haha! We got to participate in all those fun things then all the youth that were there went with us to do make a few visits and contact people! it was awesome and all of the young men and young women loved it and all of them said they wanted to serve missions after! Also the bad news came on saturday that i was going to be transferred. Honestly i was a little sad, i really loved my last area and i REALLY dont like big cities, but again i know im here for a reason. When i talked to the assistents saturday night he told me that they really needed me here because all the zone is just depressed basically and no one is working really hard and things arent going good here. Talking to my companion he has basically just been telling me the list of problems there are in our area, our ward, our stake and in our zone. But im gonna work hard and give it all ive got!! And finally yesterday i spent packing my bags(its ridiculous how much stuff i have!) and i also said goodbye to everyone at church, that was pretty rough, lots of good friends i had made and lots of special people that i will definetely miss, but i know that we have to keep moving in life! also after church the family that was baptized on thursday invited us to eat at their house! that was pretty much my last supper haha. And here i am in Guadalajara! From what i can tell my area is a really safe and secure area( so dont worry mom im not gonna get mugged, i hope). My new companion is Elder Peña and so far he seems alright, just kindof a negative nelly because of how many problems there are here. One of them is that we dont have a bishop in our ward. that should give yall an idea of our problems here haha. Our house is super nice though!! i asked my companion why it was such a nice house and he said that is used to be a house for sister missionaries and then it all made sense haha. I love you all so much! thanks again for all of your prayers and love and support! it means the world to me! As i came into Guadalajara today in the bus i could just see all the pollution and the big city and no fields and no mountains and i immediately felt closterphobic. So wish me luck because we all know i love my mountains and my wide open space haha. Have a great week everyone! Love Elder Griffin
Little guy... Elder Menchu
So fun to read Kaden's posts. He's rocking as a missionary!!!
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