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I like to see the looks I get when I wear my helmet like this 

Alright so the area I am serving in covers both the Lake Houston YSA as well as a family ward. So we are pretty busy with meetings and planning quite a bit. The area is closer to Houston so it is completely different from the past areas I served in but it is really fun. 

The Elders didn't do a very good job with miles in the first half of the month so we are on our bikes a ton but I'm not complaning. We spent a ton of time looking for new investigators in our family ward since we don't have any but no buckets so far. It is a really nice area so usually people aren't as likely to listen to us. 

Our Zone has 15 sets of missionaries that we are over and we have 4 of them training. So we have to go on exchanges with all of the missionaries training and all of the District Leaders so we go on an exchange every week which will be a ton of fun. This week we were down in Pasadena and I got to go on exchanges with Elder Baker and Elder Durtchi while Elder Toledo went with the District Leader down there. It was a lot of fun since Elder Baker was my past companion. 

There's this place in our area called Persona that a member owns so we get to go there for free. They make some really good pizza and I decided to send it with some blue ice cream that was apparently cookies and creme. Anyways it was a fatal error since my mouth was super blue and it looked like I was a 5 year old leaving a birthday party. So the rest of the day my mouth was super blue and I couldn't take myself serious and pretty much starting laughing super hard everytime I tried to talk to someone. And I looked ridiculous because I was biking around with our left over pizza. Guess ya just had to be there.

Elder Toledo got sick late in the week so it was a really slow week. I'm excited for this next week so we can get out and work our area a little more. But I love our zone and there are some really amazing missionaries that we have. 

Love you all and have a great week! 

Mom’s Questions

Tell us about your new area.  How is it similar to your other areas or how is it different?

Our area is pretty different since we are in the City now.  The family ward is full of a bunch of young families. I was shocked at how many kids were in Sacrament meeting and it was the first Sunday I wasn't asked to pass or bless the sacrament so that was weird

Tell us 3 things about your new companion.

 Elder Toledo likes soccer and he is a really hard-working missionary. He also loves Christmas so we literally listen to Christmas music all the time. Guess it’s Christmas all year!

What are your responsibilities as a zone leader? 

We have a lot of calls with District Leaders and with the AP's on how we can help the missionaries and follow up with stuff. We also collect all of the numbers to send to the office missionaries. We go on exchanges with all of the District Leaders and the people training and go to all of the District Meetings in the zone. We will also teach a couple segments at zone Conference and go to the missionary leadership meetings.