Reply to Mom's Email: Monday, August 8, 2022

From: Christian.garcia@missionary.org
Date: Monday, August 8, 2022
**Reply to Mom's email**

Hey mom. This week was super weird in all honesty. It was really mixed up and I'm still confused by it haha. On Tuesday we had interviews and it was good to talk to President and ask him some questions. It was weird because he told me to get started on stuff for college too, so I'll probably talk about that tomorrow with you if that's alright. And then on Wednesday we had District Council with the Zone Leaders and that was alright. Elder Kempe kept with who he is and they taught a lesson only using the Bible, it was probably the most interesting lesson I have had in a District Council my whole mission but it was great also. We talked about Job and Come Follow Me a little with that too. My companion has said he doesn't want to ride bikes and President said that all I could do is continue to encourage him and maybe one day he will decide he wants to learn. We'll see hah. Thursday and Saturday were the only 2 days this week that we had a full day in sector because Friday we had weekly planning. That was goodish, it's interesting to see my companions input because he forgets about all of the guys and boys we are teaching and only remembers the girls and women. It's funny but a little frustrating too because we have really good amis who are men and women, but we got there by the end so it was good. This week he didn't really talk with me a whole lot really, he was just there. Even if you talked with him. And it wasn't just me either, it was everyone in the apartment and amis in sector. He was kinda just in his own place for the whole week so that was weird. I've never had that happen before haha. We don't have any news on transfers, that will come Friday or Saturday (depending on what happens). 

Madness but busyness is good in my opinion. Keeps everything going and interesting. But NYC was probably a good decision, minus the dirty ya know? Irs weird to me how the whole city is just disgusting like that. I would think that people would try to be cleaner or the local government would do something. But nah haha. That and the 2 places where the stadiums are I would think that people would want those to be clean to invite people to come and watch a game.  

There's always more years to high-school too. Maybe next year? It's cool that she's found something like that that she loves though. 

Life is continuing always haha. Sounds like she's doing good and figuring everything out. That's nice, but I'm good staying here for a little while longer. 

Heat is nothing haha. Sweat? Yeah that's like the best friend of every missionary here! You were getting a taste of my life for a second haha. But then you got to go to AC and then it ended but the heat was there haha! It's weird to me that the Mets are that good. It has seriously been a minute since anything has happened there for them to be recognized as good. What are the standings as of right now? And how many more games are there left?? I feel like the Series is in like October or something like that but I have lost all track of time while being here so feel free to correct me. 

That's so crazy to me that it's been 11 years but that it's also only been 11 years. It feels like I've just grown up owth Tyler being there. And I did but it feels like it's longer than that. It's good that you found that happy, and that's the hope always. To find happy, it's just now to go and find that. But that can wait for a while haha. 

Thanks for the update this week and for your email as always. It's good to hear from you mom. I love you lots! 

Love,

Elder Garcia