December 25, 2017 -- Christmas Chaos
Howdy Everyone!
This week has been completely, as Sister Burton would say, wack-a-doo!
So much has changed in just a short amount of time. I met my new companion- her name is Sister Kitchen. She is from Utah and she is very excited for the work and to be a missionary.She is also a fan of Dear Evan Hansen so we are pretty good friends already.
Being a trainer is a very different challenge than I was expecting. There are lots of positives to it, like remembering a lot of the basic training I got when I was in the MTC, and revisiting a lot of fundamentals of missionary work. It's almost like in English class, when you feel like you know English and you speak it really well and then they start talking about grammar rules and you realize maybe you didn't understand English as well as you thought. BOOM that is what training is like. Sister Kitchen is doing really well though. In her very first lesson she set a Baptismal date with Shelia. Shelia is going to be baptized on March 10th. We are really excited for her. Training is a little bit difficult though because a lot of the work we do is on me now, not because Sister Kitchen isn't wonderful or isn't trying, but because she doesn't really know how to do much yet. Like door approaches when we are tracting doors, or street contacting, or starting lessons. It feels a little bit like I am running a marathon and I am not sure how far it is until the next water break.
Christmas was really fun. I got to talk to my parents (yes- I cried) and we got to see a lot of amazing members. We also got to go to a half-mission Christmas Conference, and it was really good to see my friends from other areas of the mission. I missed them all very much.
Our little district of four just got added to the Pensacola district, which means we are now in a district of 15. That will take a little bit of adjusting for sure, but I am sure it will be good and God has a reason for it. He always does.
That is all for this one folks! The work has been a little slow because of the Holidays, but we are hoping it picks back up again with New Years happening soon.
Love you all- and hey, read the Book of Mormon okay?
This week has been completely, as Sister Burton would say, wack-a-doo!
So much has changed in just a short amount of time. I met my new companion- her name is Sister Kitchen. She is from Utah and she is very excited for the work and to be a missionary.She is also a fan of Dear Evan Hansen so we are pretty good friends already.
Being a trainer is a very different challenge than I was expecting. There are lots of positives to it, like remembering a lot of the basic training I got when I was in the MTC, and revisiting a lot of fundamentals of missionary work. It's almost like in English class, when you feel like you know English and you speak it really well and then they start talking about grammar rules and you realize maybe you didn't understand English as well as you thought. BOOM that is what training is like. Sister Kitchen is doing really well though. In her very first lesson she set a Baptismal date with Shelia. Shelia is going to be baptized on March 10th. We are really excited for her. Training is a little bit difficult though because a lot of the work we do is on me now, not because Sister Kitchen isn't wonderful or isn't trying, but because she doesn't really know how to do much yet. Like door approaches when we are tracting doors, or street contacting, or starting lessons. It feels a little bit like I am running a marathon and I am not sure how far it is until the next water break.
Christmas was really fun. I got to talk to my parents (yes- I cried) and we got to see a lot of amazing members. We also got to go to a half-mission Christmas Conference, and it was really good to see my friends from other areas of the mission. I missed them all very much.
Our little district of four just got added to the Pensacola district, which means we are now in a district of 15. That will take a little bit of adjusting for sure, but I am sure it will be good and God has a reason for it. He always does.
That is all for this one folks! The work has been a little slow because of the Holidays, but we are hoping it picks back up again with New Years happening soon.
Love you all- and hey, read the Book of Mormon okay?
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