Yes! A letter...

Hi Family!! Yes my P-day got changed to Tuesdays!! Sorry I haven't wrote a letter this week! We're busy all day until the last hour of the day and it goes by so fast I never do any writing except for in my journal!! Today has been so nice though! We just barely got our shirts and ties on so we could go to the computer lab. I got up at 6 and we did our laundry early! Then we got haircuts and we had a SWEET Slam-Dunk Contest in the M.H. Arena!!! (Mine and Elder Morley's room) We got a Nerf Basketball hoop from a friend in our district that left last night, but he gave us the hoop on saturday! We we're having so much fun!!

      Anyway, as Zone Leaders, yes we have to talk to the Elders in our District if they are having any kind of problem that needs taken care of. This week Elder Morley and I had to confront a missionary who has been inviting his Girlfriend to meet him at the Temple walk on sundays, and she has been dropping him packages over the fence and he goes and picks them up in secret, but we got things taken care of. We have to Interview every District Leader every Saturday Morning to see how their district is doing and to see how all the Elders are doing with everything. The New missionaries in our Zone are awesome!! As zone leaders we get to take them on a tour their second night here and it's so fun to be able to get to know every Elder and Hermana Personally. I wouldn't get that chance if we weren't the ZL's. So I love being involved in Leadership. It's so fun and I'm growing to love and care about every Misionero in our Zone.

    Alright. anyway, The Dork dot is to show everyone you are a new missionary on the day you get it, so everyone can rfealize you're new and probably need some help. You can tell who's new by the look on their face anyway.. Poor new missionaries look so lost and confused. I Got to take a picture with Gage before he left, so that was nice. I'll Mail my SD card home today! (most likely) I haven't used my debit card yet. but I might later if I need to. I also am going to go to the Temple today, as soon as I am done with Email. Today we are going to do Initiatories! I probably won't get my Travel info until just a couple weeks before I go into the field. but June 5th is most likely when we leave here. I got a letter from G-ma Birch and I wrote her back this morning! I did get the cookies from Dearelder that were originally for Elder C.! Thanks!! Thanks so much for the package too!! It definitely made our day!!

  Elder M. says thank you so much for the care you have for him and the offer for anything. He's so thankful to our family. With his family living in Florida, his mom can't really send tons of stuff that will get here fast.. He is so dang impatient too!! I was making him so mad about emails today because he wanted to go like 4 hours ago. He's just a lot more up-tight than I am. I'm so thankful for him though and how much he is willing to help me out!!

   Our Investigator (role-playing, not a real investigator, but someone who speaks fluent spanish, and acts exactly like a investigator would) Therisita, committed to baptism this past week!! It's so exciting to teach people and to be lead by the Spirit when you prepare well! The Spirit has already helped me know what to say in lessons and words come to me that I know I wouldn't of known without the Spirit! Our other Investigator Miguel is stubborn, he's hard to teach. We are trying to teach him about baptism, but he was baptized as a baby and he is Catholic. He is concerned with why he needs to be baptized again. How can you tell someone that their baptism was not valid and that their Pastor did not have the authority of God, without having them be angry at you?? IT's not easy. We have to rely on the Spirit so much. The only way a person can know the truth is if The Spirit tells them. We can't really teach them anything without the guidance and help from our Father in Heaven. I love the constant feeling of the Spirit that is here at the MTC also. It is helping me learn Spanish so well!!! It's hard for sure. but knowing we have help makes it just a little easier. I never pray in english anymore. If someone from our Zone says a prayer in english it is almost weird. Like for example when our family was in sacrament and someone prays in another language and everyone is confused. That happens here but with english because no one prays in English now.

    We Have guest Speakers every Sunday, and every Tuesday. I love hearing from the General Authorities that can teach us messages with such strong Spiritual confirmations of the Truth. It's great here. It's only as fun as we make it!! but once you see the pictures and the couple videos on my SD card you';l know we're having fun!! Tell Brindlee I never did get to know Elder Gucake. He left a week after I got there. I saw him a couple times and we said hi and talked a bit, but he left about when Gage did.

  Okay I have a few special requests of things we need (we will probably die without these things)!!!

We need some duct tape, a new nerf basketball hoop (like the plastic small hang-on-doors ones, ours is getting thrashed), I need a few more pairs of white socks for gym and for P-day, a stress ball (not the foam ones, but like the ballon ones filled with something squishy), another comb (I gave mine to Elder M.), a couple of my XL tee shirts, like B-MO or my T-Rex rainbow one. and some snacks. That would be awesome if We could get that stuff. I'll try to write a letter later in the week if I get a chance, and I will mail my SD card home today with a short letter.

 

   Well, we're going to the Temple now!!! Love you!! I'll write soon If I can!!