1 July 2013

Dear Family,

My companion's name in Hna Aju. She is from Guatemala and has been on her mission for about 15 months. It has been a hard first week of this transfer. With Hna Nuñez gone and a new companion who doesn't know the area, I've been the one who has to know where to go, who to visit, what lessons we need to teach and to whom. In addition, I feel like a lot of our attempts to teach have fallen through (people not home, etc.) I only have a short list of key investigators that I really know to look for, and a small handful of members that I both know and know where they live. As a result, we've spent more than a little time wandering the streets as I wrack my brain to think where we can go and my companion asks the same question. It's been a little discouraging.

Without Hna Nuñez, I am slowing discovering that I have a little more language facility than I thought. I've had to talk more to our investigators and the members since Hna Aju doesn't know them. As a result, I am learning to swim a little more. On Sunday I taught the class for new converts and investigators. I taught the chapter on prophets from Gospel Principles. In Spanish. And I also survived. (Hna Nuñez had been doing it, so it fell to me, but we really need to ask for someone in the ward to be called!)

On Sunday we got a new ward mission leader, and for the first time we met with our ward mission leader. I hope having an added level of coordination with the ward will help us surmount some of our other difficulties.

We met our new mission president Friday. I believe Thursday was the changing of the guard in the mission. Anyway, Pres Klein and his wife came to our zone. They shared some thoughts and then Pres Klein had brief getting-to-know-you interviews with each of us. He's really nice and so is his wife. His wife has a blog she started when she and Pres Klein were called to serve. I've been to it before, but I can't remember what it's called.

Love, Hermana Davis