Mordida!

This week there was a three day exchange with our district leader, Elder Sawyer. The first day (Tuesday) he was with my companion, so I went with Elder Breck. We had a great time, especially when we had dinner with the Lear family.

The next two days Elder Sawyer was with Elder Breck so it was pretty normal for me and Elder Hutchinson other than having our DL hang out. On Wednesday, Elder Hutchinson and I sang a hymn to every person we visited, which worked out really well. We have begun to sing more throughout the day.

Elder Sawyer felt super sick Thursday morning and later we stopped by the apartment and found him curled up under a blanket. Apparently it had been food poisoning from some old oranges we had. Apparently he ate 4 even though they tasted weird. He could only blame himself. He got better the next day though.

On Friday we had my first zone conference! President Maluenda came to talk to the missionaries in the Corpus Christi Stake! We learned a lot about how we can improve as missionaries and really build our faith and confidence. Also, the main car guy from Church Headquarters came down to install "Tiwi"s in our cars. They keep a driving record for each missionary, tracking speeding and aggressive driving. It is lenient and is mainly designed to help us learn to drive better. The conference didn't leave much time to work but we went over to the Lear's home for dinner.

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On Saturday, we had a zone meeting. This was just the smaller meeting led by the Zone Leaders. We discussed a lot about what we learned the previous day and then had a party. It was ZL Elder Newland's birthday! Here in South Texas, of course we had to do the Mexican "Mordida" tradition. Mordida translates to bite. The birthday person takes a bite out of the cake and nearly 100% of the time someone else will shove their face in it. 

On Sunday, our investigators came to church! They loved it and are planning on coming back!

Everything is great!

Elder Larkin Moss

 ¡Mordida!

Portland on a rainy day! (Today is super rainy)