week 81

This week has been very crazy. I went on exchanges with the zone leaders and they are trying to help me with my companion. I told them I had already talked to my companion about not using headphones but he still uses them. The zone leader helped me out to make sure he mentioned it to him too, but my companion is still using them.  This only makes things infinitely harder when I am trying to help my district when I hardly have time to do that because I don't really have the support of my companion because instead of supporting me as a district leader he causes more problems.

week 80

This week was crazy.

 I am on a record now for how many personalized responses I have gotten from president. Usually he copies and pastes something in his email back and then writes something specific but it is very generalized for the whole mission. But in my emails for the past 4 weeks or so I have gotten a lot of very personalized letters from him because of what is going on in the district. It is sort of interesting. 

 I am doing great. I am doing and going through everything with a lot of hope and patience. I have been great.

I learned how to do this amazing zig zag tie. So it crosses over itself like 5 times and creates this zig zag pattern. And it is about the same size as a normal tie not

week79

With regard to what I said about "others" and inviting them to come unto Christ, Preach My Gospel actually refers to doing that with whatever your responsibility is, for me that includes training being senior companion and being a district leader. And so far that is all I have done, "invite". I am not constantly on people’s cases for everything. I simply invite them to do better and I leave it at that. I do not get mad or upset if they don't. I am saddened when they don't because I know how it will bless them, and I know how important it is, but I do not get mad.     

So a couple transfers ago we had transfers a week early and stuff.

We had a transfer that was 5 weeks then this last one was 7 weeks long and then the next one is 5 weeks long because of the age change stuff and the change in the time of the MTC. Then every transfer after that will be 6 weeks long like normal. 

This means that my mission was just officially shortened by a week.

week 78

Well, I don't have a whole lot to say this week. It is crazy. 

I am not too cold, I am still only using my coat and that is it. The temperature is around 32 deg.  Cool to hear AZ got a lot of snow.  

I am trying to think of more ways to exercise, rather than just doing sit-ups and pushups. Those are really not effective because it is hard to push myself when I first wake up. I had a couple of ideas the other day hopefully they will be work better.