Completed first full week in McAllen!

 First full week in the field.

Here are a few pics - 

Today marked 1 week exactly that Mel has been in McAllen. I could tell by the look on his face that he seemed a bit overwhelmed! Getting up at 6:30 is not easy he told us. He usually wakes up several times at night and checks the time just to make sure he still has 'a bit more' to sleep. He is loving having Cole as his trainer. Cole is a hard working missionary! They have been biking all over the place, and are even being chased by dogs. Here is Mel's email from today - 

Hey everybody!  Wow so I finished my first week of my mission.  Its been a crazy week, me and my comps have grinding hard in the work everyday.  The first few days were hard, I was missing home and it was tough, but thats just the mission life hahah.  We met a lot of cool people this week and taught some lessons, so I hopin we can get some baptisms soon.  

So my trainer Elder Christensen is an animal.  He's so sick and he actually lives right across the street from me back home in Spanish fork hahahah.  Its insane being comps with him he's a beast of a missionary and we'll do really good together, he's teaching me all good stuff.  My other comp elder Smith is also a beast.  They're both 6' 5 and tower over me lol. Some members invited my district to their house for Thanksgiving and it was so lit, the food was amazing and I'm grateful for those awesome members.  We've been biking so much everyday and it kinda sucks but I'll get used to it I hope lol.  Holy cow tho, there's so many big  dogs here that chase us and its pretty sketchy, hopefully I don't get eaten any time soon but I'll let yall know if that happens hahahah.  Well everybody thats all I got for week 1.  I know this church is true and I love this gospel so much, can't wait to bless peoples lives!   Hope everyone's doing good!

Pics

1.  Me at the members house by a lil lake

2. La curvo restaurant 

3. This dude we found contacting and he wanted to take a pic with us hahaha