Monday, July 23, 2018

E-mail dated 7/23/18


Kamusta Kamo!!?  

Well! Its been another week and it has been a busy and eventful one as I am sure you can guess from the news I gave you all last week!

As for me this week it has been pretty good! So on tuesday morning I packed up all of my stuff to transfer from city to La Paz. It was of course mixed emotions, but it felt like it was probably time to transfer. So I packed up all my stuff and went to this terminal to meet my new companion. My new companion is Elder Schley from Boise Idaho. He is a really funny guy and we have had a good first week. This is Elder schley's last transfer as he will go home in august, so in mission terms, I am going to kill him. Thats what they call it if you are a missionary's last companion. It should be a good transfer. So my new area in La Paz or Lapaz I see it both ways so I really don't know what is the right way, but the area is cool. It is still technically apart of Iloilo city, but there is some parts where it looks like we are wondering through a jungle, so thats pretty cool! 

Once transfers finally got worked out, which is kind of stressful, because that is something that the zone leaders have to cooridinate and some people never travel on time so some didn't get into their new areas until wed, but lets just say I am glad that is over. Elder Schley and I have a joke everytime it is pouring rain, we always say "well this is almost as fun as transfer day" haha. But once that all got taken care of we had a pretty good week! The area is good, the members and especially the Bishop is great. There is a lot of room for improvement and it will be a good experience to try and help this ward, I am excited. 

So as far as our zone, it is kind of weird or unique lets say. There are only 10 of us. There are 4 elders (us and the DL and his trainee) and 6 sisters. But as far as our responsibilities as zone leaders it is a lot easier, because it is mostly sisters. It is unique, but so far it is awesome. We are one district and one zone at the same time haha! It will be fun! As far as experiences and cool stories, don't have a ton. but in the coming weeks there should be a lot more, I am still getting used to the area! 

Well sorry the email is kind of short, should have much more to tell this coming week. I just found out that we have to give the training in zone conference, it will be my first time so that should be interesting! Anyways I love you guys a lot and you all have no idea how much I truly appreciate your love, emails and support! Have a great week!

Palangga ko kamo! 

Elder Joshua Degen




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