Tuesday, April 16, 2019

Getting to know Huauchi!










Buenas tardes amigos y familia!!

How was everyones week? I can imagine things are starting to look prettier and prettier in good ole utah county. But too bad its not as pretty as it is here! Haha this place already has my heart. Compared to my other three areas, Huauchi is paradise.

This week we just got to know the area, the people, and the ward! We have already had a lot of success finding people, people are so ready and prepared here! Im used to Pachuca where everyone rejects us haha. Still almost everyone is Catholic, but there are a lot of people who are super interested, and we've already found quite a bit of them! We were left with a whoppin 0 progressing investigators so we are starting from ground zero, Thats makes it more fun though right? 

We had to road trip up to Pachuca this week for the leadership council which went super well! .We had to wake up at 4:20 but Hermana Kimballs food made it worth it haha.
Sometimes I miss food from the states haha. Im super curious to see what happens to the mission in June because President Kimball, the two assistents, and 7 of the 13 zone leaders are all going home! I have been the youngest zone leader for about 5 months now, so I dont know what we're going to do without younger leaders! We'll see what the new President does! Lots of changes coming up. Its always fun to see my trainer, old comps, and many others at the leadership councils. After it ended, we road tripped back to Huauchi! It was a total of about 7 hours and 300 pesos for transit haha. I hope we dont make that trip too often. 

Unfortunately today we had to make another trip to Pachuca to get my eye checked out. About three weeks ago, I got hit in the eye with a soccer ball and ever since then there has been a repeating flashing light in the peripheral of my left eye. I thought itd go away but it never did so we went to go see what the problem was. We went to an opthomologist in Pachuca who is actually the son in law of the old stake president in my first area, President Lozano, who just barely got called as a Seventy! I love that man haha, but his son in law was able to help me out! He did several exams on my eye, many of which were some of the weirdest sensations ever haha, and find a contusion in my retina. This is actually very very good news because the doc was thinking I might need laser or surgery if it were more serious. But he just find a contusion that should scare up on its own in about a month and I wont have any of the symptoms anymore! Definitely an answer to my prayers, vision is something you dont want to mess with. Im hoping Ive already received my portion of injuries on the mish, so Im looking forward to moving on without any more problems! Maybe my wrist will get better one day haha.

This week we had something to do every morning which made it difficult to study, but Ill share some thoughts from a district class we prepared this week (My comp and I also have the district leader responsibilites in this district). We talked about I think the second talk of general conference on saturday that talked about the tree of life parable. How the river goes right next to the tree but not exactly to it. Its the difference between being casual and careful with our covenants. I think this is super important! One of the biggest issues now adays is being casual with our covenants. Its almost more of a risk to just go a little bit off the path instead of all the way to the great and spacious building. I hope we can all find things that are making us be casual with our covenants, and fix them so that we can receive all the blessings prepared for us!

Hasta la proxima!!

Elder Millard









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