5 Languages, 1 Week

April 12, 2021

What's gooooooooood email squad? I hope y'all are doing dandy. This week was pretty loco.

I went on tons of exchanges this week throughout the mission! I was only in my own area 2 days this week, which was kind of an oof because it is a little hard taking care of the people we are teaching when we aren't there most of the time. But, it was great getting to travel around New York and spending time with missionaries I usually wouldn't get to talk to! I spent a day in Chinatown with the Chinese elders and had some AMAZING Chinese food. That day was insane, I have never worked with Chinese people before and it was so cool! I also got to spend a day in Jamaica, Queens and it was SO fun speaking Spanish again con mi gente. I also got to speak a little Haitian-creole and Portuguese this week! Pretty much my next 3 weeks are going to be spent all around the mission getting to know the strengths/struggles of each area so that I can best know how to help them. I am especially excited to go back to Harlem for a day in a couple weeks to talk to all my old friends there!

Elder Webb and I spent a couple nights this week staring at our transfer board and coming up with different scenarios for transfers, planning (or more like dreaming) of where we wanted to send certain missionaries at transfers. We don't get to make the final decision, but it was fun coming up with scenarios of potential companionships and "match-making" I guess you could say haha, even if none of our ideas actually get used. It was fun and definitely a highlight from my week for some reason.

THE PEOPLE WE TEACH ARE SUPER COOL! We teach a 15 year old named Najae, and she attends seminary, youth activities, took notes on general conference, and is just so awesome. She is planning on getting baptized on April 25th (day before my birthday!) if everything goes smoothly.

One of our recent converts, Steven, is an ANIMAL. I don't know how to describe him, but he is so positive and passionate! We asked him to make a Facebook video for our page, and it turned out SO good! The post completely blew up and got A LOT of attention in all the groups we shared it into. The Teuscher's even shared it onto the mission Facebook page because it is so fire. We love Steven.

Les amo mucho!

- Elder Webster

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