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Weekly update for June 19th- 25th

Hola mis Amigos! Cómo están? Let me know how your week is going. I'd love to hear from you all.

Weekly bullet points!

- Elder Decker went over to Plainfield with a new comp and I had Elder Kelly come over to me from Plainfield. He is from New Mexico and we were in the MTC together. Now the only person from my MTC group that I haven't been with is Elder Marz. Hopefully he will be with me soon. Also my trainer Elder Rios is in the area really close to mine so we are in the same zone.

Elder Evan Marz, President Taggert, Elder Mason Davis

- While contacting we met tons of cool people and knocked a lot of doors and met some cool people who set up return appointments with us Hopefully we should get lots of new people to teach now!

- I had to give my first training in district meeting so that was super scary! I didn't realize how much more responsibilities being district leader would bring. Haha I'm sure I will learn so many more skills while doing this. I'm sure it will even help me become a better teacher!

- We got fed plenty of times through the week and it's not helping me with my attempt to get more muscle. I will just have to work out really hard the last 6 months of my mission so I can come home not looking fat. Ok, so I'm not fat, I'm just used to being super skinny, so now that I look normal I feel like I'm fat. But in reality I'm just normal sized now... just getting that out there... :)

- We taught English class and it went well! After English class one of the student came up to us and asked if he could take a video of us explaining what we do and about the English class. So, we did. And he then put it on Facebook and it has like 6,000 views! He is a super cool guy and we are going to start working with him more. I've got a good feeling about him.

- We helped one of our members paint a room and I'd say we did a pretty great job. Not going to lie, doing manual labor and service type stuff is so much easier and relaxing than missionary work. It's so much less stressful. Haha i do love missionary work so much tho. I wish I could wear this tag forever!! :)

- Some lady was cooking a fish and to describe the smell I want you to close you're eyes (after you read this) and imagine walking into a fish market (those already stink to begin with right?) So now take all that fish in those freezers, unplug all the freezers, wait 1 week in the middle of the summer, and that's how this fish smelled while she was cooking it! She didn't make us eat it because we had just eaten another pile of food before that. But, my comp being the lovely man he is, decided to try it. When we walked out I asked him if it was good. He said it taste just like it smelled. EWWW!

- I had to go to a new leadership meeting in Morristown and it was super long. I did learn a lot tho. It was super awesome to be at one of the last meetings with President Taggart! It was the last time I would see him in person. He will be leaving this Thursday. He was an amazing man who led this mission so well. I can't wait to report to you all on my new mission president next week!

- So I'm not sure if I told you guys yet but at night it's super awesome here because the sky is filled with these little bugs that blink! I've never seen them before. Some people say they are called fireflies! Haha jk but it was super cool to see fireflies for the first time. They are a lot bigger than I thought they would be.

- It was all in all a great week! I hope you guys have a great week as well. Don't forget to read and pray daily! Be the example to those around you. I love you all! Till we meet again!

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