Hey Everyone!!!!
So this week was absolutely awesome!!! There were some incredibly great experiences to say the least! I'm not sure that all of them are as fun as usual, but they were incredible experiences for me to say the least!!
First off, this past week was incredibly busy!!! Monday was P-day, which is 6 hours of the day so that takes a while, even though we spent the balance of it cleaning. Actually I spent pretty much all of it cleaning. Tuesday, we had a lunch appointment with one of the ward members and by we I mean all 6 missionaries in our ward! How cool is that?! Lot's of money really, but the ward loves us, so we do okay with meals, especially for how many of us there are! We also got a new investigator who was a really nice man. Not sure how interested he really is, but he's nice nonetheless.
Wednesday, we had district meeting which was lots of fun! I delivered the training again, and I felt pretty good about it! The district here is awesome. Everyone wants to work as well as I can see really. I don't know if anyone is aware, but preparing for upwards of 20 district meetings, you can start to run out of material. Especially if all that it has in PMG for instructions is to teach the missionaries the doctrine of the kingdom. That's the only thing we are SUPPOSED to do. All of anything else that it says are just suggestions, BUT nonetheless, was a good meeting.
English Class was good, the new missionary sister in our area taught it. She did a solid job, but just like most people when they come to the country at first, talk way too fast for people to understand. I feel her pain being from California, we are certainly a fast talking bunch typically.
Thursday, we got to visit the temple which was fun, and awesome all at the same time. It was raining so stinking hard!!!! Nobody would leave at first and were talking way too loud to be in the temple really, so this guy came and told us to be quiet pretty much. We were the first companionship to leave, thinking that people might follow our example, and go and do missionary work, but from what I gather we were not successful... Oh well, that's okay, not too many opportunities to see friends I suppose.
We also met this kid who is insanely good at English, and he learned from watching American TV and that's pretty much it. Kinda weird, but whose not that knows English right?
Friday was really cool, President came and spent the day with us!!! Super fun, we had a service project in the morning, and President said that it was the best service project that he's ever seen among missionaries. It was kinda like a soup kitchen for old people I think I've talked about it before. So much fun.
Also! I got to do another baptismal interview that night. Interesting man, his brain is literally incapable of grasping concepts at first listen. Incredibly good heart though. He passed and is now one of the more recent members of the church.
Yesterday was easily one of the coolest days of my mission by far. So there was this big fireside with a few general authorities in attendence, and none other than President Christensen and his wife, my prior mission president!!! such a great man. I got to talk to him, and he is still so awesome. Sister Christensen is too, well minus the man part or rather just plus a wo-. I talked afterwards with Michael O. Richards of the Sunday School General Presidency, and he is so cool!!!! I'm going to say he's my new best friend. I was so impressed with how easy it was for him to be happy. If I could be as happy and loving as that man was, regardless of whatever else I achieved in life, I would know that I am a success. So incredible.
Sorry I'm short on time, so I'll try and say more next time, but I feel like there was a lot this week! Stay awesome for the time being.
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Make a game of coming up with short simple statements of correct doctrine to avoid long rambling explainations that are not clear. ;-)
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