week 77

 I am still getting bombarded with things to do and things I need to improve on. It is quite difficult especially when trying to satisfy the zone leaders.

I still have way too much to do,  This is causing me to think "I only have to put up with this for another 4 months." That is what we call a trunky thought.

  

One thing I really appreciated that my companion said to me is that I am the most obedient elder he has seen in this mission. That made me feel better.

week 76

Today’s email is a bit disorganized. 

  

My responsibilities as a district leader just went way up. I now just lost all personal time. I now don't even have time to correctly train my companion. I am losing time to just work in my area. They want me to call every member of the district every day. That will take about 30 min to do every day.  It is ok, but trying to train at the same time is a nightmare.

I have a ton of pictures I want to send but it will have to wait. 

I love you all. I am doing well.

I hope all is well at home.

week 75

We just got new cards to use. Instead of having JP Morgan cards we are now using bank of America cards.

We had to go get new tires on our car. They were almost bald.

Last week the mission doctor made it mandatory for everyone to get flu shots. I had already had mine and I have not gotten sick. But about 40% of the mission was useless for the last week because so many elders were sick. 20% were sick,  their companions had to stay with them. 

 

I don't know if I had explained this but that family I taught in my last area, the one that was anti-Mormon and everything, are getting ready to be baptized. I think I told you all about the amazing lesson we had that caused such a change.

We would invite the spirit then he would chase it away and then we would invite the sprit again and he would chase it away again with the spirit of contention wanting to bash. That repeated over and over in that lesson. We kept inviting the spirit and at one point in the lesson he accepted which is why he is now about to be baptized.

Yesterday we had a lesson with someone in a very similar way. It was amazing but he never ended up accepting the spirit after we invited it like several times.  I don't know if he will be baptized but I know I am doing my job when the investigator feels the spirit.

week 74

The other day I was thinking..... yes when your companion is sick you spend time thinking, when normally I don't have time to think.

I made a list of the blessings that I gave before my mission. 

1st Ashley Dewy

2nd Tacia

3rd Mom

I am sure that you all remember when that happened.

Also, This week we will be getting new mission cards. Instead of being credit cards (that is just the way it works, it is not actually a credit card), we will get new cards that work with debit. 

This last week was tons of fun. 

We watched "Despicable Me" on New Years Eve as a zone. On Wednesday I went on exchanges.   My companion got sick and I was stuck inside for 3 days, basically. He is still not feeling 100% but he is doing a lot better.

That is about everything I have to report. Actually I got to go to a leadership meeting with the mission president on Friday while my companion was sick. Another elder came to watch him while I went. That was a lot of fun. I found out more of what I need to do to help my district. 

The mission president talked to me directly about a companionship in my district because he got an email from a parent about a problem that is going on.  fun......