Well, here we are again. Believe it or not, another six weeks have come and gone, and that can only mean one thing: changes. And as has always been my luck, I'm going to a new area. As of right now, I only know that I will be going to an area in the stake called Meyehualco. This will be the second time that I have been in this stake, my first time being my first area. It should be good though. It's part of the DF, what we know as Mexico City. The nice thing about that is that the transportation is about half the price there than here in the state. Elder Hall will be staying here with a new trainer. We don't know who it will be, or who I'll be with, but I'll let you know as soon as I can. I must admit that this one came as a bit of a surprise. Generally speaking, trainers stay three months with there companions. Still, the Lord knows better than us, so I just trust that this is for the best.
Other than that, this was a pretty good week. The rain let up a little bit this week and let us do a bit more work, which helped a lot. One of the most interesting days was definitely Friday. To explain why though, I have to explain a little bit of what happened the day before. We were on our way to an appointment on Thursday when we got a text message from the zone leaders saying that President Crickmore was going to be working with us for a couple of hours on Friday. (No pressure.) So, needless to say I was a little bit worried about how that was going to work out. He came with us after we ate, so everything was pretty much normal in the morning. We couldn't really find anyone in home, so we just did some contacting in the streets. (Still not my favorite thing. For some reason talking to random people in the streets is a bit hard for a super introvert like me. But it has gotten easier now that I speak Spanish.) Then we went to eat. A kind of hard part of this area is that we pretty much always eat far away from our area, but this time it helped since we ate closer to the chaple where we were going to meet up with President. So, we ate than went to the chaple, and after a little wait he got there. Since our area is about a 45 minute walk from the chaple, and was only able to come with us a couple of hours, we decided to go in his car. (Oh, and I've hardly set foot in a car for about a year now.) On the way to our area we got talking, and he asked us if we had had any problems in our area, in particular if we had been robbed. (We haven't been.) We said we hadn't and he said, "But you have been robbed in your mission, right Elder Long?" (I haven't. I'm just putting these here so you know that I wasn't just saying that to him.) I told him that I hadn't, and he said, "Well, today might be your lucky day. They might see me and say, 'That guy's got money.'" (Spoiler alert: we didn't get robbed.) So, with that vote of confidence, we went to work. The first person we went to see, a contact, wasn't there, but the next one, also a contact, was. We had a quick lesson with him since he didn't have too much time. Then we went to see a part member family who recently moved to the ward. The son is an RM, and happened to have been the Elder who taught one of the sister missionaries who served in our mission. So he and President Crickmore got to talking for awhile. After that we went to another contact who wasn't there, then he had to leave. All in all it was actually a pretty good experience to work with President for a day. After he left we worked a little bit more, which intitled pushing a car a few blocks, and teaching another lesson with a family that we have been visiting. All in all it was a good day.
That's about it for me this week. I hope you guys have fun in Idaho. Oh, and ¡yay for summer! OK, I love you, and I'll write you next week from who knows where.
Love,
Elder Samuel Long
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