first week in bosque! September 18, 2017

Hey everyone! well my first week in my new area has been quite the rollercoaster haha. our first day here after i had gotten settled in and we had written home, we set out to work and visit our investigators that we have. well just my luck we ended up not having alot of luck that night and just walked around for 3 hours before coming home haha. tuesday was a little bit better. we just spent the morning doing zone leader stuff (sending reports, asking for materials, printing LOTS of papers, etc.) then we had lunch and ate a typical food here of guadalajara "carne en su jugo" (meat in its juice). that was something i hadnt eaten since i was back in tapatio, so that was pretty awesome to get to eat it again since it tastes amazing. That day i got to know alot more of the investigators, and this week me and my companion have been making lots of changes haha, dropping old investigators and focusing on the ones that actually progress. tuesday i also met mariana, shes a young girl whos 15 years old, she has a strong desire to be baptized but her mom wont let her, we have been working alot with her and set a baptismal date for october 7th, and her mom said that if she sees a change in her daughter, she will let her be baptized(a change for the better). wednesday we had the district meetings. and that is when i came to realize that this zone needs ALOT  of help, looking at the dats of the zone as well shows me one of two things, either the missionaries arent working here, or dont know how to work. so we have to help them with that. my area is quite interesting, because there are some parts that are really nice and fancy areas with huge malls and just a rich person place, and then other parts of my area that remind me more of san jeronimito, dirt roads and really poor houses. Thursday we basically just spent the whole day planning, updating our area book, and studying and getting ready for the leadership council, we were able to visit mariana again thursday night though. A cool thing that did happen that day, while we were coming home from our lunch appointment we stopped to buy some food, and i was carrying a book of mormon in my hand, well the guy that was there asked about it and asked who we were and we were able to teach him all about the book of mormon and we gave him that and a pamphlet of the restoration! he seemed super interested, the only problem is that we can only see him one time a week, so hopefully when we see him again this week he will have read alot and want to be baptized haha. Friday was leadership council, and oh what a day that was! to get to the offices we had to take a bus, 2 subways, then another bus. that was the first time in my life i had ever taken a subway, yeah i prefer the country haha. It was great seeing lots of old friends like always. The leadership council was basically just to train all the newbies, (since more than half the zone leaders are new), so i felt pretty relaxed there haha. when all the zone leaders were talking about things they had done last transfer to help their zone, the zone leaders of aeropuerto(where my last area was) talked about the big bang they did and how we had 14 new investigator and that that area was now going to have 9 baptisms, and when president asked where that area was they said moroleon, and i just kinda started to cry and everyone saw me and laughed, afterwards the president commended me in front of everyone for the great work i had done. his wife also said before we had even started "thanks for coming back we couldn't do it without you". finally i had to share my "last testimony" in front of everyone, my heart was pounding, my hands were sweating, and i got butterflies in my stomach like i haven't felt since i wrestled, its weird to think that i don't have alot of time left, thats why im going to give it my all! anyways after the meeting ended we took picutres and said goodbyes like always. as is tradition we went for a dairy queen haha. that night we were supposed to be home by 7 for september 15th, since the people get crazy here that day, but from 7 to 9 we were in a taxi to come home. saturday was normal. and sunday was sad haha, when we started sacrament meeting there were only about 15 people there... and this is a ward... so yeah we have lots of work here. well my time is up but i love you all! have a great week! Love Elder Griffin