Amberly's Mission

January 13, 2026

Semana 26- Y'all are Monsters or Should I Say Elders

Get ready for an adventure...

Monday- discovered we are out of car miles and only have 16 a day and it takes 14 to go to the church which we have to do 5 days this week so we literally started biking everywhere

Tuesday- finished some tech stuff and started exchanges mid day where I went to Pharr in a puro Español area where we ended up finding like 6 people and I whipped out some scripture verses. It was cool to be with Sister coles and the pharr sisters are in a 4-man so it was strange to have so many missionaries everywhere. As in the English sisters overlap and as we were driving we just saw them biking on by. I did talk to a cool part member family of theirs and became bestie with the little daughter who gave me a hug and told me por favor vuelve.

Wednesday- played soccer chair with the pharr district where I ended up winning with this big district and then just dipped. We had district roleplays this morning and then afterwards we went back and biked some more all day. Also, we have not been being fed this week and because of that we have been eating all the crumbs in the fridge and pantry because it has been REALLY hot outside and we have been trying to go as fast and far as possible. We also talked to our scary friend Christian who was high out of his mind and wouldn't stop bugging us as we tried to do our companion study.

Thursday- district council and we had once again AP exchanges. Yall might remember that the TMM has 4 APs and that they have sister exchanges where two of them just double you where ever you go. So, elder Parker and Hansen came with us and at district told us some stats. Apparently this district used to get on average like 9 people at church a week and now have only been getting 2. So now, in this new area we are definitely going to bring it back. The APs also said that on average Elders baptize more than sisters but if we are as bold and as persistent as Elders than sisters outdo every elder out there. So, we came to prove them how cool we are and literally talked and preached to everything that breathes and talked to literally tons of people and got 11 new people in just the one afternoon. We even met an RM! Had some cool lessons like with out guy Jr who we are helping for his baptism next weekend but he for the Houstan Elders over there because he moves up for college on the 5th. The APs told us that we literally were some of the best missionaries that they have seen and with this momentum there is nothing to stop us from seeing tons of miracles. They didn't even have much advice to how to be better except to keep it going. They also said that to be this amazing we have to think like Elders. Apparently one of the past aps went out and counted how many people one of the other sisters companionship missed and told them that there were 23 people they could have helped. We, literally drove with our heads on a swivel and would pull over what felt like every 7 feet and the aps would always say that they hadn't even seen them.

Friday - more biking!! And we took that momentum some more and found a lot more people and tons who said they would love to come to church! I also found a tarantula!

Saturday- biked in some more 100⁰ weather. We also found more people and testified so boldly to people and a lot said that they would come to church and we even made an extreme church plan for how to get these people to come on Sunday.

Sunday- woke up at 6 to go out and call and knock on our friends houses. We had 5 people who said that they would definitely be there but then only 2 of them showed up to church but we are definitely going to bring them all next time. We stayed extra to finish our tech time with the tech squad so we were at church for 6 hours. But the cool thing was that it went after the 9 am English ward that we are in into the spanish ward at noon who so kindly fed 12 missionaries. So, we had some fantastic hamburguesas y un pastel de piña. The whole time hermano carrasco was joking about how fast missionaries get married and told my compañera that she had to cut the cake for practice for her boda and that all of us would have to be invited. I also gave the spiritual thought in Español to all of them. And some of the elders came up to me and said that my spanish is really good to only be on my 4th transfer!! So yay! Because I have felt like my spanish isn't the greatest especially because although the entire Texas McAllen Missionaries are called to serve in spanish like half the areas are English and I have only served in English. (Alhough, Alice was technically a zebra area where we taught spanish and english).

Monday- we went to top golf!! My first time and I didn't loose I managed to get 3rd of 6!

Pensamiento espiritual: Russell M. Nelson: We can do better and Be Better:

"Nada es más liberador, más ennoblecedor ni más crucial para nuestro progreso individual que centrarse con regularidad y a diario en el arrepentimiento. El arrepentimiento no es un suceso; es un proceso; es la clave de la felicidad y la paz interior; cuando lo acompaña la fe, el arrepentimiento despeja el acceso al poder de la expiación de Jesucristo."

The Animal Count of South Texas Nobody Asked for:

Tarantulas-1

Tlacuaches (possum)-8

Armadillos-1

Deer variety spotted-4

Smaller deer kind-7

Roaches-avrogados number

Rattlesnakes-2

Fish-35

Starlings-10000

All the farm animals

Longhorns-20000