Goodbye Sister Slade. Hello Sister Rocha

This week was way hard. We had transfers on Tuesday, and I had to say goodbye to Sister Slade and pick up Sister Rocha. Sister Rocha is so awesome and she is an amazing missionary! I am really glad that I get to have 2 trainers, because I get to learn 2 ways of doing things. BUT this whole transition was like the hardest thing mentally. Being the trainee, I was so used to just relying on my trainer to know what to plan for, how to use our time best, where to go, and how to get to the places we're going. Now that I'm the only one who knows the area, I get to plan everything. There were so many days when I could not figure out what to do with our time. Appointments were falling through, investigators were dropping, and we were not finding anyone to teach! I mean, don't get me wrong, we met plenty of people, but they all preferred English, so we had to refer them to the elders. We ask everyone for referrals of people who speak Spanish, but everyone just says "oh, well everyone here speaks Spanish!"...I don't know what they're talking about, because I'm not finding them! Definitely not one of the happiest weeks of my mission, but we're working on building up our teaching pool, and things are looking up!

The much needed, gorgeous sunset

I've only gotten lost like...5 times. I mean, lost is not really lost here, because the town is so small, but it's weirdly lined up. We did get a little lost finding a potential investigator on the outskirts of town, but got this gorgeous view as a perk!

SO.MANY.DIRT.ROADS. And cows, a whole lot of cows. We had to pull over at one point, and these hilarious hick guys in this fancy sports car pulled over to see why we were stopped. I swear, they looked like duck dynasty guys. I've never actually seen that show, but the fancy car, huge beard, and camo shirt just screamed duck dynasty. It was classic.

Sister Rocha, my new compa:)

My companion is teaching me how to knock. We didn't do it at all last transfer, but now that it's colder and no one is outside, we figure it's the best way to find people who are interested! We meet so many varieties of people. Luckily, no doors have been slammed in my face either! Last night, one family let us in and we got to teach them the whole Restoration. It was in English, so the elders will teach them from now on, but teaching in English is bomb. I get to say all the stuff I want to! And I can use analogies, oh it's just the best.

Also, my old companion is now my STL [Sister Training Leader], so she is coming on exchanges with us tomorrow! I have a "size of Texas" list of questions for her about this area, because she knows so much about it. That will hopefully help next week go way smoother.

Anyway, I love you all! Thanks for the letters, dad. I got the one from home and the one from Europe on the same day this week:) They helped me so much!

Bye bye blonde

I just want y'all to know, that even though this was the hardest week for me so far, I learned so much, and I'm not going to let it push me back at all. Now it's time to get to work and start seeing the blessings for doing something that's so hard.

See ya in 16 months!

Hermana Peck

P.S. I turned 2 months today! I need to stop counting...it makes it all go way too slow

LOVE YOU