So week one in San Ysidro has been really good! My companion is Elder Snow. He is a good missionary who is ready to work. This ward is really active in missionary work, and that is how you know that this is not only a great ward, but the Lord is going to help us a whole lot.
We are going to have a baptism this Saturday. The person who is getting baptised is named Brenda. She has been taught for 3 weeks. She literally pulled over one day and asked the missionaries to teach her. She is so awesome and has been reading and marking in the Book of Mormon. She is already halfway through the Book of Mosiah. So Awesome! We are going to be blessed enough to get to teach her kids now. I'm excited for that.
I have gotten organized in my new area and it's not in the middle of the desert so it gets rainy a little and there is constant traffic. It's certainly different from Calexico, but I think that it is good different!
David O McKay once said: "The true purpose of life is the perfection of humanity through individual effort, under the guidance of God's inspiration. Real life is response to the best within us. To be alive only to appetite, pleasure, pride, money-making, and not to goodness and kidness, purity and love, poetry, music, flowers, stars, God and eternal hopes, is to deprive one's self of the real joy of living" I really love that quote for a lot of reasons but especially because we all face decisions every day that determine our footholds. Where are we going? And do we look around or up? I can promise that as we look the the Lord we will become better people and lovers of all things good. This week has been a huge growing experience for me and my Spanish is not very good haha.
Love you all!
Elder Stephen
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