MTC July 17

Elders DeLong and Mills went to the temple and met some people from MN. That was fun for Elder DeLong
Last Sunday I was made the new District Leader. Its been a good experience so far. It's not too much different from just being a regular Elder (at least not here at the MTC). All I do is go to a couple extra meetings and have weekly interviews with all the senior companions. I also get to conduct our weekly district meeing and pick who says prayers and things like that. So its been fun. One really cool thing that I got to do becuase I'm the DL is to control the traffic on Wednesday when the new missionaries come in. I had a walkie-talkie and a funny BYU hat and an orange vest. I'll send you some pictures. That was pretty fun, except that I was standing for 3 hours straight! My legs still are a little sore.

I'm feeling much better now, along with everyone else in the district. We were all sick there for a little while. Today when I write the girls I'll be sending you some more pictures that I've printed off, so hope you like them. In the RC this past week I had talked with this woman and helped to get the desire to go back to church and to start reading the Book of Mormon again. She was a former member but has been inactive for quite a while. had many questions about I sent her a great article though that eased her mind and committed her to go to church and read again. She said that she had really missed the peace and good feelings that she had while going to church. She also had missed her ward family. I've been keeping in touch with her via email and she was able to go to church and had a great time. She said everyone was very happy to have her back and she felt that peace and joy again. She also was able to find her Book of Mormon and says she is going to read it again. It was really cool.
The oldest district in my zone left and I had a lot of good friends in it so that was sad, but I only have like 2 and a half weeks left! Its crazy, I can't believe how fast the time has flown."
Con mucho amor,Elder Jeffrey DeLong
P.S. Oh, and the spanish is going well. We've made it a goal to speak all spanish so we'll see how that goes. Bye!