So it's wednesday which is a day earlier than I usually write because tomorrow is Thanksgiving so my zone gets kind of hosed since it is on our p-day.. So they told us just to do our laundry and email sometime when we can fit it in so I wanted you guys to have an email from me for thanksgiving, but I also figured people would wait to email me until Thursday so we are doing half of our email time today and half on Friday.
We are going to be super busy tomorrow, especially me and Elder Howe because we got assigned to be zone leaders this past week and all the zone leaders are in charge of the big service project that we are doing tomorrow. So in the morning we have a devotional from one of the Apostles which I believe will be Russell M. Nelson so that will be awesome! And then me and Elder Howe and all the Zone leaders have a bunch of training meetings and setting up meetings for the service project. We are going to be leading assembly lines that are putting together bags of dehydrated soup for hungry kids in the community.. Like hungry hungry.. not just like they get hungry for lunch hungry.. Apparently there is a big need in Utah and a lot of kids are going hungry so we will be putting together 350,000 meals which is pretty incredible. It's going to be a huge project, but it will be a lot of fun and we get to be involved in leading that which is exciting. We are working with some organization that helps members of the community provide for their own community rather than creating food and sending it elsewhere. But it should be a good way to spend Thanksgiving!
So yeah as I mentioned, me and Elder Howe got assigned to be Zone Leaders.. really not a super big deal, but it is a good opportunity to lead the zone and be an example to all of the other missionaries. We are definitely held to a higher standard and the standards are already high so it's tough, but i'm glad that I have that to push me to be the best I can be. We are even busier than we were before and we are taking it seriously even though it's really not a huge change.
The two districts that were older than us both left this past weekend so that was sad. They were all super awesome.. It's amazing how fast we all become best friends in here, I know I have probably said that before, but it's really true. So yeah our zone is pretty small now, but it's good!
We got a new Hermana in our zone that joined us this week which is kinda weird cause we're already halfway into it, but apparently she was here for the whole six weeks earlier in the year and then got sick and had to go home so now shes back. It's kinda awkward cause she thtinks shes better than all of us cause she has been here before.. If only she knew how amazing we were.. Last night I ran into a person I knew from the outside world for the first time. It was a kid named Isaach Catchatoorian, he is from NC and was in my efy group from a couple years ago which is super random but it was awesome to see a familiar face and catch up with him..
Alright here come the highlights/stories from the week:
Elder Creighton (I sent a goofy picture of him home first week I believe) Chugged a whole can of cheez-wiz just by itself cause I told him too hahaha it was awesome/disgusting. He almost threw up at one point but he powered through so I gave him a dollar.
I got chastized by some random guy for tie trading. Every missionary does this.. We were having a tie trade with the older districts before they left and I had literally been zone leader for like four hours and then this guy comes up to me and says,"is tie trading unbecoming of a missionary?" and I honestly had no idea what unbecoming meant so I stood there like a goober and didn't say anything and then he said,"you should probably go have a talk with your branch president about that" and I was like okay.
Honestly I had no idea that was a rule cause it's not written anywhere or ever told to us so i dont know how we were supposed to know, but i actually felt super guilty about it cause I had just been called as zone leader and I was already breaking rules. Everyone told me not to worry about it, but i felt pretty bad. And then I realized that it was pretty funny that I was at a point in my life where breaking a silly rule like that, of which I had no knowledge of, made me feel that guilty.. So I feel good about the point that I am at, and I am really not worried about my obedience. So don't worry either haha, I am doing my best!!
What else? Hmm my pant's leg ripped which was sweet. I put them on one day and all the sudden my right leg was like half a foot longer than the left because it turns out that Joseph A. Bank didn't even hem them! They hemmed one side and I guess they took a vacation that week or something cause they didn't even hem the other side! So let the record show that I don't support that franchise anymore.. but no sweat, one of the sisters labored over my pants for like 5 hours and fixed them which was super sweet of her.. (perks of being a zone leader) haha just kidding.. I know I have said zone leader like 19 times in this letter and I probably sound like a tool, but I am really not I promise..
I lost four pounds this week! so I am back down to like 170 which is good. It doesnt make any sense though cause I ate super healthy in weeks 1 and 2 and gained 10 pounds and then in week three I gave up and ate whatever I wanted and lost 4 pounds. So I guess the lesson to be learned here is that if you eat cheese dip every night for a week you will lose four pounds..
I had a lesson with this teacher (Hermano Avila) and he taught us about Patriarchal Blessings and our divine potential and all this super awesome stuff and it seriously changed my life. Patriarchal blessings are amazing and such an incredible gift we have. If we study it and live righteously, all of those blessings and more are ours. I plan to study my blessing more and more and I encourage you to do that too!
Me and Elder Howe have been on fire lately with our teaching. We have really learned how to ask questions and connect with the people we teach and because of that we have been able to have such a strong Spirit in our lessons. We had to teach one of our teachers in front of an audience of 8 other missionaries which was kind of scary, but we totally nailed it and she told them that we were examples of how they should teach. She was the same teacher that totally humbled me a week or two ago and it's so cool how we were able to be humbled, learn and grow, and then become great examples of teaching in her eyes. So yeah I guess we are getting a little cocky, but we know that it is not our own strength. The Spirit does all of the teaching, and I really do believe that.
The hardest part of my mission you ask?? Getting two shots last week. It was the worst! Turns out I was missing two immunizations so yeah. We basically just sat in these chairs and watched people get their shots and then they'd call us up and we get our shots done in front of everyone, it was weird. I had everyone cheering me on because I made it known that I hated shots so everyone was watching me and I told the lady that I was kind of a girl about shots so afterwards she gave me a pink camo bandaid for being so tough.. Now everyone is scared of me on campus.
Alright sorry my emails are always so freakin long, I figure you like to hear the stories, but if I need to chill out just let me know.. I'll get back on here on friday for a little while to see your emails, but this is my big email for the week.
Happy Thanksgiving!!
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