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Changes are happening in Sabinas!



Hola hola everyone.  Super good week this week.  Lots of good things happening but also a lot of things changing!!  My companion was made zone leader, so he is moving up to Nueva Rosita, about 40 mins away.  I'm getting a new trainer, but he only has 6 more weeks than me in the mission!  Two newbies together haha.  Bien interesante no?  I'm super nervous.  I don't know our area super well so that will also be hard.  I will pretty much be training him for the first little bit haha.  We have four baptisms coming up in December so that is super exciting!  

On Tuesday I went on splits with my boy Elder Oldham, he was in the mtc with me, so we were two gringos who didn't know Spanish walking around in Mexico jaja.  We found four new investigators though!  I'm starting to forget some words in English, so by the time I come home I'm not gonna know English jaja.  

I have been teaching a lot more during our lessons!  I'm not just the silent quiet companion anymore.  Its still kinda hard for me to understand what they are saying, but I can put it together for the most part.  I don't remember if i said this last week, but I've been talking in my sleep in Spanish!  kinda weird haha.  

This week has been one of the harder weeks of my mission so far,  I have been feeling pretty home sick, the language is really discouraging, and i'm nervous about my new companion and running our area, then I started thinking about how i'm not here for me, these two years are for the lord, and for the people of Mexico.  Ive been focusing on losing myself and just working, working, working.  Work will solve my problems ha.  Also, if it was easy, I wouldn't grow.  I would come back the exact same person I was before.  Things are hard sometimes, but that's how its supposed to be.  Christ lived a very hard life, he died and suffered for all of us, so why would it be easy to represent him?  Its not supposed to be easy.  Don't get me wrong, the mission is amazing, but it has its hard times, and i have 21 more months to go!  But I cherish every moment, the good and the bad.  In reality, the bad times are the good, because I am growing.  This church is true.  It just makes sense, Gods plan for his children is perfect, and I love sharing it everyday, with those people who have been kept from the truth.  I love you all so much.  Read you scriptures and say your prayers, the little things are the most important.  Have a good week!!  Would love to hear from you.  conner.atkin@myldsmail.net

   Elder Atkin
 
                                                       Elder Atkin and Elder Lorenzo

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