Great week in Tennessee/Virginia!

Great week in Tennessee/Virginia! I'm learning so much about being a missionary in the states and I'm becoming accustomed to the daily routines. Transfers were this past week and we have a new district leader, he is the most genuine person I've met and cares so much about the work. I am now the oldest Elder which is crazy but we're all new to the area figuring it out together. We had an amazing district council and finally met everyone in person rather than through the daily video call devotionals we do. We did some amazing role plays focused on the divine mission of Jesus Christ and another sister and I were able to practice in Spanish a little too. I saw fireflies for the first time which was amazing! I caught a couple and released them into our motel room for some company.
As for food, we've been blessed with a ton of gift cards from the relief society president and treated ourselves to Olive Garden one night. The people are insanely nice and I still have not met someone even sorta mean.
Also, yesterday we went to church! It was so amazing to meet everyone in person and talk to them. The building held three meetings, one for mask-only, and the others for the two wards. We stayed all three and helped do sacrament and clean between services. It is so warming to see the church run with care and pure dedication. The testimony meetings were amazing and I was able to introduce myself and my desires to help the ward in any way.
We finally got the area book situated and we set up a ton of lessons for this coming week. Pretty much everyone was open to us and I couldn't believe it, finally looking in the right place. Personal study has been going great and having access to videos online is a huge blessings in furthering my studies and understanding new ways to explain to people the joy of the gospel.
I listened to an audio clip titled "Conversion of a Catholic Priest" by Bill Carpenter and it's amazing so check that out if you can. Hope all is well for everyone else and you're taking things on one by one. Going into the week strong but keeping my knees high because there's always going to be some hurdles to get past, looking forward to it.
Elder Blazzard