Elder Garrett B. Eichers Illinois Chicago Mission: EASTER

This week has been great but it has been pretty stressful! I have been working so hard that every night I get back home and I am just exhausted! We have to study so much now with training and the language and everything that I just get so tired! I am really working hard to help my companion and everything so that he can start teaching and speaking more! I love it though because now I don't have enough energy to think about myself! It truly is about other people now!

Our investigators are doing great, Ventura came to church again and she is fulfilling her commitments so we are just trying to get her on a date! She even called one of the members yesterday and had him come over to her house because she made him and his wife tamales! She is doing great we are just working on her finding her own way to church now! She loves the gospel though there are just some minor things! Our area is really progressing though now! When I first got into the area we taught one lesson a week and one less active lesson too. Last week we had 6 lessons and this week we had 4! We are truly being blessed here for our efforts! I love this new ward though! After only being here for a transfer I already feel like it is home! I miss the old area though too because today on our way here to the Logan Square church we rode a road that we would always go on and it just brought back so many amazing memories though!

My spanish is doing great though! I can understand basically everything now! I am shocked at how well I understand! Of course there are still some things at time I don't understand but I am doing so much better! I have so much confidence in my spanish and everything right now! And I am getting great at cooking too! I am now husband material! JK I am still a baby! Everyone talks about marriage and I just am laughing at the squirrels and stuff

For Easter yesterday, we just did normal missionary work. We didn’t do anything really special. It just felt like a normal day. Thank you for the package and everything by the way! But we have this less active family who we are working with and last week we started talking to the mom because we were just mainly working with the grandma and the grandkids but we finally got in contact with the mom and we are working so hard with her right now! She has so much confidence in us and she wants to come back to church she just doesn't know how! I love their family so much and they are my goal for this area! That is the thing I want so badly is for them to come to church! I love their family so much! I am so tired but I love it here! I hope you have a great day and good luck in China!