week 73

Really... Twinkies too.....

wow.

I really appreciate the Spanish Grammar book. I am already using it. It is nice.

Oh.... Dad, thanks for your GPS. it is quite useful. 

I loved all the Christmas gifts. Thank you.

So this last week I would like to report that I informed the mission president of what I saw last week and I told him that I would inform the zone leaders. I informed the zone leaders and they told me they would address the problem. 

I then ran into some elders from my district at the family history center and I walked in on them looking at video game websites and other apostate stuff. I chastised them later on that night when I gave them a phone call. (I did that with as much love as possible).

Actually, I had a dream the other day that helped me know how to chastise and correct with love. I was doing something wrong (something I would not actually do) and it happened right in front of the mission president (remember this is a dream). President Brinkerhoff then corrected what I did in such a way that I felt a lot of love come from him to the point that I wanted to tell him thank you and that I loved him back (again none of this would actually happen, but it was just a hypothetical situation that I dreamed that showed me the way to correct with love.) I had that dream the week before all of that happened

Another story. I am the closest Spanish speaking district leader to Pocatello. So if Poky Spanish need a baptismal interview they need either me or the zone leaders here to do it, because we are the nearest leaders that speak Spanish, so this last week Pocatello actually had a baptism. They asked me to do the baptismal interview. We cannot interview anyone that we have taught. I asked them what the name was. They told me it was Shane I did not know a Shane so I was on my Pocatello they day they told me the baptismal interview was. (We had to get a ride with a member because we did not have miles). I still needed to find out the location of the place where the interview would be. They had given me this crazy address so I wanted to call them. Finally they get me the number of those elders so I can call them. We were already almost to Pocatello. The first thing I asked them was what was the last name of the person being interviewed and where he lived, just in case there was someone I had forgotten about. They then told me his name and it was not the name that they had given me and it was the wrong address as well. His name and address matched perfectly to someone that I taught while I was there. So I could not do the interview I was way excited that someone I taught was getting baptized, but now we had made it all the way to Pocatello and we had to drive back. The member just took us to Pocatello for nothing and the zone leaders had to make an emergency trip to Pocatello to do the interview. Everything ended well, but it wasted our entire night.

week 72

This is a little rough today trying to email. The other apostate elders are very distracting and a very bad influence on my new companion. This is getting frustrating I think I will end up reporting it to president. I hate being a tattletale but I can't stand missionaries doing these things.

This week was crazy. I have a great companion, but I think I he will require more help than the rest of my companions. My last companion just got sent over to the apostate district of the zone. This is going to make me very frustrated.

week 71

I am training again. The trainee that I have right now looks like he will get his visa to go to Spain in just a few weeks. President decided to put him in a threesome in a pure Spanish area to help him out. I will be getting another son here really quick.  This Wednesday I will be "giving birth" for the third time. I am "due" this week. Everyone is teasing me that I am "getting it done". Once I am done training this elder that is coming (and he will actually be staying in the mission and not going to another one) I will only have 3 months to finish my mission or you could also say 2 transfers. I have 4 transfers left in my mission as of right now. 

Crazy. 

So this week has been crazy. I have not had time to do nothing. 

I am so excited for Christmas.

I don't know much else to say. I have had so little personal time since I started to train, not even to write in my journal. I am so behind.

Every time I figure out how to do things faster that way I make time to write in my journal, I get a new position that takes up more personal time.

week 70

This week was so hectic. It was so busy with 7 ward Christmas parties going on, 2 exchanges (when I was only able to do 1 of the 2 I had to do.), Also a meeting for all the trainers, and so much happened. 

We had a baptism on Saturday. He thought he was already baptized but they could not find his records in the church, but he definitely now is converted. He knew nothing of the church. At lest now he passed the interview and everything well.

I had to do 3 baptismal interviews this week for other investigators of the 2 sister companionships in my area. I had to go to the baptism of the one set of sisters. The other one will be this next week. It is crazy. And now we found two more golden people that are ready to be baptized.

Transfers are the next week that is coming up. 

We find out this Saturday what will happen.

We will have an all day p-day on Christmas.

I think I have too much to write anything in detail. I could probably write an entire novel about my life in this area as a district leader, trainer, and white washing.

I love you all. Have a good day.

week 69

I am finally starting to get a hang of these district leader responsibilities. The zone leaders are great, there is only one other elder companionship in my district. I have two other sister companionships. The exchanges have to be done by the end of the 4th week. Well it turns out that because this transfer is a week shorter (which I did not know) All the exchanges have to be done by the end of the 3rd week, which will be physically impossible for some district leaders that have 3 other elder companionships in their districts. The zone leaders are apparently going on exchanges with me this week instead of next week. I will be going on exchanges three days straight. 

I am getting the hang of covering an entire stake.

I figured out how to better do things that way I am able to do everything I have to do.

Last night I was making district leader phone calls. I actually started making the phone calls on time at 9:30. However, the phones don't get good reception, and a lot of other things. I was also not calling just for numbers but also for information about the investigators with baptismal dates. I did everything I could and called the zone leaders, and it turns out that it was still not enough. I forgot to get some information. So, I had to call/txt the sisters back, I texted them at 10:38 pm. That is how long all the numbers and phone calls took to do. I also had everything basically organized and ready to take numbers when I started at 9:30

 

Now, I get to tell you about another great thing that happened the other day. 

I was so stressed one day that I decided to not be stressed. Here is how it works.

You act like Tacia!

It is so simple.

You just be bubbly about everything. I don't know how it happened. But there are some side affects. You start to talk to yourself (like the time I was with Tacia and someone went out to talk on the phone outside and Tacia went onto the porch at Centennial Apartments and started to talking to herself and having a complete conversation) in front of your companion. You start to act very hyper. Very sporadic and it appears to everyone that you are ADHD. (^_^)

That was a fun day. (^_^)