Letter from Jan 8 Training is going great so far, my new companion is Elder Despain, he is from Gilbert Arizona and is super cool. We found out that we both had the same teacher in the MTC, so thank you Hermano Walker for sending out a missionary who is ready to work and speaks great Spanish!  This week has been great, extremely long, but great. Elder Despain and his new missionary fire is blessing this area with a lot of people that we can teach. We are working great together and teaching in unison and I am giving him plenty of time to speak because there are times where I had troubles understanding what people say haha. So this will be a great experience for me and a huge growth period in all aspects of my Missionary efforts.  Scripture of the week: 1 Nephi 1:3,5-7 3) And I know that the record which I make is true; and I make it with mine own hand; and I make it according to my knowledge. 5) Wherefore it came to pass that my father, Lehi, as he went fort...

Letter from Jan 2 Welp transfers are already here and I am luckily staying here in Grandview but not with Elder Anderson. He finished his mission this transfer and should be on an airplane heading back to Georgia right this very moment. I still don't know who m y new Companion is going to be but i will find out tomorrow when I go to the Training meeting. Yeahh... I AM TRAINING!!!!! I will be picking him up from the Church by the Mission home tomorrow morning at 10! I am super excited to train this transfer and I am also super nervous. but mostly Excited!!! This week has been all sorts of crazy because of all the Holidays. Frist off Christmas was great, and then my Birthday this week was good as well. Elder Anderson and I got the chance to go to the Temple together that day with the AP's. It was supposed to be only for the Departing missionaries but right as we pulled into the parking lot at the Temple, President Canceled it because of the road conditions (There was freezing...