Lots of changes in this last week! Where do I start? So saying goodbye in Goshen was sad, but not too sad, in the sense that there was a lot of comfort in saying "see you next year!". I'm glad I'll be able to visit Goshen easily after the mission and (with all the family connections here) for the rest of my life.
As for the new area, it is awesome. Elder Harris is hilarious and a dang good missionary, it's a shame he'll finish next month. Portuguese is coming a long slowly but surely, I can pray now and understand and follow quite a bit. With diligent practice I hope to be able to converse well enough to take the lead by the time I get my next companion. The Portuguese ward covers the whole valley, so in this week alone we've traveled to American Fork, Spanish Fork twice, Orem multiple times, and Santaquin twice too, all without needing permission to go because it's our area! Thank goodness, I probably would have felt claustrophobic in a small city area after all the space that Goshen afforded me!
The Spanish ward here is awesome too, Bishop Revuelta is such a spiritually powerful man, and I'm teaching many of the same people I did when I was in BYU Spanish, some of them are baptized active members now! Fun to see how planted seeds grow!
As a zone leader we'll do exchanges with the district leaders and go to DTMs, if they're anything big to do president calls on us. We cover all the elders and sisters, English and Spanish, in west Provo, north south and central, the east side of Provo is another zone. I haven't done anything particularly zone leader-esque just yet other than attending all the district training meetings, but we've got great missionaries in our zone and I'm way excited to work with them all. So yeah, things are awesome here.
We had a classic missionary experience with a door knock teaching contact with the Tobarez family Saturday night, taught them the Restoration on the fly. It was super cool, and I hope something comes out of it!
We got snow in Provo my first day here, the cold's coming in fast, none of it has stuck though. Either way, it'll be a chilly Thanksgiving Day Turkey Bowl, and I'm stoked!
God Bless you all!
-Elder Martin (The Spanish Ward calls me Mar-teen, and the Portuguese Ward Mar-Cheen, so cool!)
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