Hey Everyone!
This has
been a pretty good week in my opinion. It had its ups and downs, like entire day's falling through or people
falling off date, but that's
mission life. You gotta take the bad with the good, and I definitely think there was a lot more good that
happened this week.
So to
start off, we had Spanish Forum this week! All the Spanish missionaries got together to have our own Spanish
specific meeting. Something cool
that happened recently is that we just got a new addition to our mission. The Woodbridge area is now
part of the Washington DC South
Mission which gives us another Ward and 6 new missionaries. The only downside to this is that their
area has bikes, so Spanish
speakers aren't guaranteed a car anymore. So hopefully I don't get transferred there any time soon. Speaking of
transfers, that will be happening this Thursday. I'm 99% sure I'll be staying in Falls
Church and I'll finally get a new companion to
replace Elder Cottle. It's been
fun with Elder Coburn and Elder Thompson but it's just so hard to take care of my area and their area at the
same time. So I'll enjoy being
able to split up again and be more focused.
Ok so
about the day that everything literally fell through. It's pretty funny looking back on it just because of how it
all crumbled down in a matter of
minutes. Literally not even 10 minutes and our whole day was shot. So we were going to start off by
doing a split, Me and Elder Coburn
would go to a lesson in Falls Church and Elder Thompson would take a youth with him to be his
companion. Well, the youth ended
up having to cancel because of an issue that came up where he needed to help his mom. This is where it starts to
take a nose dive. So we are
scrambling trying to reorganize our lessons and we are realizing it just isn't possible because we have to
drive 10 miles in 2 minutes 3
times if we want to make our lessons. It was a hard decision trying to figure out what to cancel because
it was for both our areas, but
eventually we decided on staying in Falls Church to do a Noche de Hogar with a member and her friends. Well,
she had to postpone the lesson
because she got home from work late, causing us to cancel our lesson for 8 as well. Then we come to find
out her son isn't home and we
can't even go inside in the first place! It was pretty ridiculous how it all went down but good news
is that we were at least able to
reschedule all the appointments for later days. So no big deal, just a funny story.
So the
best part of the week was in fact yesterday, Sunday. I had to give
a lesson during second hour all by myself because the Hermanas were busy with investigators, the ward mission leader
is in Utah, and the elders were
filling up the font. Yep, Baptism! But it wasn't our baptism, it was one of the kids that the hermanas were
teaching. And they asked me to
baptize her! It was great because I haven't been able to baptize someone ever since my first baptism with
Lesly over a year ago. So I was
pretty happy to be able to put on full white again. Sorry I don't have any pictures right now, the
hermanas still need to send me
them.
Then
after the baptism we rush to have dinner with a member then we are off again to a Charla Fogonera (fireside). But
this isn't any ordinary fireside,
no this is the first ever Spanish Regional Fireside of Northern Virginia (aka Washington DC South
Mission). It was a member specific
fireside where every ward in the Washington DC South Mission was invited. It was huge! The whole chapel was
packed! And the best part was I
got to see all my favorite people from Little River. I couldn't believe how happy some of them were to see
me! I snuck up behind one person
that I worked with a lot when I was there and she started jumping because she couldn't believe I was
back. That's basically how it was like when I talked to all of my
favorite people. I didn't realize
how much of an impact I could have on someone's life.
Definitely
a good week. The good definitely outweighs the bad in this case so I enjoyed it. So yeah I’m still going strong
and I'm looking forward to this Thursday because
then I get my new companion and it's back to work in Falls Church!
Love you
guys and thanks for all the support!
Elder
Biehn
IT’S 103 DEGREES!! And with Virginia humidity it feels like 107!! Is that just great for finding??..... It's so hot.... Last summer wasn't nearly this bad. Glad I don't have to go through ANOTHER one after this. Speaking of which, today is my 17 Month Mark! Not that I'm trunky or anything, it's just that's a really long time! And I'm going through a lot of my "last" things. Like I can't believe July is already almost over and it is about to be August. Then come Christmas and winter! Wow it feels like the blizzard we had was just last week, but nope that was in January.
