I'm not sure if I every showed you guys Elder Reasch. So here we are! What an awesome week this was. One thing Elder Bednar said when he visited our mission was that if we continue to do the same things, we are going to get the same results. I like this, and I've applied this to the way I modify my planning, finding and teaching. President Slaughter applied it likewise and mixed up the natural order of the mission. He took the Sister Training Leader, Sister Christensen, the traveling Assistant, Elder Humble, and made them trainers of new missionaries out on the border. I am serving in the area called, "El Dragon" in the center of Eagle Pass. My district consists of the zone leaders who live in my apartment, my district leader companion Elder Warren, and the very same Sister Christensen and Elder Humble. We 4 companionships cover the English and Spanish branch in Eagle Pass. The Mexican Culture here, as you can imagine, is very strong. People go to and from Mexico on a weekly basis because Piedras Negras on the other side of the Mexican Border is 5 minutes away. I really like it here so far! We rode bicycles all week and I think I got a butt callus. It really hurts. Although the callus has now formed and we'll be good to go from here - I hope. We also just got a car to share with another companionship so we'll really only be on the bikes a few days to week. The bikes are a huge improvement to sitting in a car all day because we interact with far more people. We teach more first lessons but have less progressing investigators.
I taught once to twice a week and a man named "Al" when I served in 5th ward. He was an older very successful businessman from Eagle Pass who got a really bad leg infection that got him put on bed rest for 3 months. I visited him the entire time I served in the 5th Ward. When he was about to be discharged I asked if he was going to get to church when he started working again, and he started joking around saying I was never going to be able to catch him if he didn't because I'd never see him again. Ha! Ha Ha! Jokes on you "Al" I'm in Eagle Pass now - and your nephew is the branch president! Boom. I hope to get a chance to find him in the next few weeks.
The apartment we are living in is super nice. Especially compared to what we were in before - and compared to Catherine's house. No offense to Catherine's house, it's precious. But this apartment is really nice! I was nervous we wouldn't have a gym here, but the apartment complex has a little one so we're all good. When I got here the organization in the area was embarrassing. So we took a few hours each day to take stock of all the information at our disposal and formulated some solid plans for how we would start going about the work. In the process I needed to buy some organizational supplies. We went to Walmart. I asked a nice Walmart lady if she could direct me to the yard sticks. She replied, "en enpanol, por' favor?" Whoa! What?! We are not in Kansas anymore good people! The people in Walmart do not speak English.
Love y'all very much,
Elder Tyler Meidell
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