Personal letter to Parents 2-21-2022

 Hey mom and dad, I hope you're well. I figured I ought to write you guys a more personal letter, it's been quite a while haha. Sorry about that.

So we will be having transfers tomorrow, and I will be with a different companion now after so long of being with Elder Arias. I don't know much about my new companion Elder Haymore, but I've heard he's super nice, and really quiet but works hard. And I've heard he's from Arizona so that's cool. I think I'll miss Elder Arias because we've been together so long, and I like learning Spanish from a Mexican a lot. And so I'll be in charge of the area, and there is so much work ahead of us, it will be a challenge, I'm excited.

We ended this transfer a little discouraged to be honest. We went really hard at the beginning knocking almost all the doors in the Ometoxtla ward and doing everything we could think of to encourage the members. We've done a lot. But this last week, I felt like it was one of the laziest weeks of my mission. We woke up late almost every day, and we've left the house late, and then we've taken a little nap each day. We just have been exhausted from such little results especially in the Ometoxtla ward. But as I said in my weekly, we still had a lot of meetings and did a lot of good things, but I know we could've done more. But we can't go back now, we can only move forward.

I think my new companion will be good for me, because Elder Arias is so good at service and helping people, but he's my most unfriendly and quick-to-anger companion I've ever had by far. That's one of the things that's been pretty hard for me this whole time. A lot of times i could talk with him was talking more negatively about people, and I don't like that too much. And I know that won't happen with my new companion so I'm excited. 

This area has been hard for me, but it's been harder for Elder Arias, the way the people interact and act here is like his enemy. So he lost a lot of motivation this transfer, and unfortunately I didn't have a ton of motivation to carry us either, so we'll see what happens now. I want to be a lot better, I hope I can.

I have so many things that I want to do, and there's so much work but we can't do it all as just 2 people. We have the whole zone and work a lot with the stake Presidency and high council members and both wards. And technically we have 2 branches where the work is only over the phone, but we haven't done anything with them. And we have this ward missionary activity Saturday where they want us to bring the whole zone, but we still don't have it planned very well. And we have a zone conference to lead this week too haha.

Let's just say I have a lot on my plate, and I need to step up my game big time. I'm excited to do it, and I love to work, so well see what happens. 

I've also been thinking a lot more about what I'm going to do when I get home, cause these 6 months are going to fly by. I've thought about possibly being a civil engineer, or another thing I've thought of is possibly looking into being a golf course superintendent where they overlook all the course and management. There's a lot of people I'm those crews that speak Spanish and it would be a good way to keep up with it. But I'll try and look a little bit more into careers when I get to use the computer a bit for P-day.

Also, I took a Spanish test through the missionary portal to test how I'm doing, and it says I'm more advanced now. So that makes me feel good, God has been good to me and I'm doing well. Just still adjusting to being a missionary, that never stops haha.

I love you, thank you for all the love and support always. It helps me a lot.

Love,

Elder Williams