First week in the field

Hello! Well, I am officially in the field! My first area is San Gabriel it is one of the biggest areas in the mission and includes 6 cities within it!  Tuesday I met President Becerra and the Assistants to the President they are really great missionaries! We went to the top of one of the mountains here and saw our whole mission from on top it was really neat.  Then we went to the mission office and got a tour, then we went out to lunch at a place called Rudy's it had some most excellent Mexican food! Then we went to the mission office got some training and met our trainers! My trainer's name is Elder Betty he is from Idaho he is a great trainer for me and knows a lot of Spanish.  We have about 6 investigators right now but some of them aren't really progressing. Their names are Arte~no (ar ten yo), David, Karen, Thomas, Ernesto, and Daisy. I have only met Arteno and Karen the rest we havent been able to visit.  So, this week we have been doing a lot of finding and teaching less actives to try and reactivate them. We have found 4 potential new investigators and I really have hopes for this man we met the other day named Martin. We found him while we were talking to the mother of some less active boys (she is active though! :-) she said we should try her upstairs neighbor and so we did and that's where we found Martin.  The others I am not so sure about because we haven't had a chance to revisit them.  Also, this general conference was simply amazing as a missionary! There were aspects of each and every talk that I could apply to what I am doing here and now.  Some of the insights that I got is that I need to replace fear with faith, families are super important, and that when I am feeling down and discouraged I only need to remember to talk to my Father in Heaven in humble prayer and remember that I am a child of God.  I also learned many things about teaching the gospel to investigators that I am going to try and apply when we go to teach them.  I would love to hear anything that anyone has learned from conference.  I haven't really met any members of our ward yet but the ones I have are super great!  I have already eaten some authentic food that a lady from El Salvador made us they were called Papusas and were super delicious! There isn't too many weird things here but there are a couple of weird food items the Assistants to the President told me about.  Also, Friday we had some training with the assistants and President and Sister Becerra that was most excellent! They have this new program for incoming missionaries that helps them so that they aren't so greenie like. I like it so far! We actually get an extra hour to study as companions so I like that a lot! Well my time is almost up so I love you all and I hope you learned something great!

Adelante! (basically keep moving forward)

Love, Elder Reisner