2-2-15
Most of the beginning and middle of this week was nothing special, but the weekend had something really big about it. This last Monday for our preparation day, we played volleyball at the church with some other missionaries and some of the members. We haven't had too much work going on lately, so we have been trying to implement activities to get members to invite their friends to like volleyball. We actually have a lot of ward activities coming up that should be good for missionary opportunities. We have a county fair going on this next week and we will have a booth at it to hand out material and talk to people. On the 20th we will be having a youth movie night where we will be watching the Saratov Approach. On the 26th our ward is going to be having an open house for the community and we are trying to invite as many people as possible to come.
On Tuesday, we had District meeting and it turned out really good. I focused the majority of the training on setting goals and having the vision to achieve them. For the last part of the meeting, we discussed obedience and how we can become the Fourth Missionary (it's from a talk called the Fourth Missionary). The Spirit was strong and all of the missionaries in the district were excited and committed to be an exactly obedient missionary. After the meeting, I went on an exchange to the Wauchula area with Elder Brossa. He is from Spain and he is super blunt and funny. Throughout the exchange, I asked him questions and Spain and what everything was like. He told me that practically no one uses a car because the public transportation will get you anywhere that you need to go. In Spain, they usually eat lunch around 2 p.m. and they have dinner around 10 p.m. The thing that shocked me the most though, was that everyone takes a nap on a daily basis from 3-5 p.m. because it is too hot to be out at that time. The streets are completely empty during those hours. Spain sounds like it would be a really neat place to visit.
The rest of the week following the exchange was pretty normal. We struggled quite a bit to find people to teach, so most of our days were spent either finding on the streets or trying to work with the members as much as we could. Nothing else exciting happened until Sunday morning when we got transfer emails. We found out that Elder Dardon is going to be transferred this coming Thursday, and I am going to be training a new missionary again! I am not as nervous about it as I was the first time, but I am wondering how I am going to balance everything I need to do as a District leader and train at the same time. It's going to make it difficult with things like exchanges, but I'm sure that it will all work out. That means that I am going to be in this area for the next two transfers and I will only have one more left, so I'm guessing that I will just die in this area. I was hoping to serve in one more area, but now it doesn't look like that is going to happen.
This last transfer has felt so long because of all of the things that have happened with being a District leader. There are so many fun aspects to it and I love, but also so many things that I wish I didn't need to do. I know that it is all good, though, and that it has a purpose. I know that I have grown a lot this last transfer because of the responsibilities that I have been entrusted with, and that I still have a whole lot to learn. I hope that you all have a great week and that everything goes well with Elder S. Whaley's return.
Love,
Elder A. Whaley
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