my pleasure. glad you got things set up!

as an infosec professional. i do not recommend telegram or its bots. telegram has a history of bad security flaws, they log ip addresses and retain that info for 12 months (use a vpn), and e2e encryption is not enabled by default like signal. a german investigation also found that telegram is actively sharing data with government agencies as well as censoring content at their behest.

more info here:

https://restoreprivacy.com/secure-encrypted-messaging-apps/telegram/