March 29, 2010

I asked Jeff if he had a good week.

Yes, this week was good even though it was a little tough. Every day all our appointments seemed to fall through, but that just happens some times.

I told him I liked the pictures he sent, especially the one of him on the slide:

Haha, you like the one on the slide? That's in the courtyard of our apartments. There's a little pool and playground.

His current companion, Elder Jenkins, is a zone leader and just about to go home.

Yea, it's fun that he's a zone leader. I've learned a lot about how things work as a zone leader, and he is just really fun to be with. Too bad that I'll only have one change with him :/ I'll be on my 6th companion after Elder Jenkins.

He recently had a zone conference, and thought that Richard G Scott would be in Chile at the same time & maybe speak at their conference:

The zone conference went well. We always learn a lot and leave pumped to teach the gospel. Elder Scott was not there, so maybe he didn't come to Chile? I don't know. It is conference time already, hard to believe huh? I'm excited to hear what the prophets have to say.

Update on their investigators at this time-

Marisol is good, she is still really excited for her baptism. But she has to wait until June 11th to get married, I guess there are a lot of people at this time that also want to get married. Which is good, here in Chile there aren't many married couples. It's using the biggest stepping block for people to get baptized here. We have other investigators that are progressing well too. Getting them to church has been the biggest problem for most of them, so we are hoping to get a few to go to conference.

He hasn't said much about the earthquake in Chile, it doesn't seem like his area has been
affected much at this time.

There are still quakes pretty often. There was one last night that I woke up for. But it's not scary when you're on the ground, only when your 16 levels up, ha.
Yes, the weeks just zip on by, especially now that I almost have a year. Everyone says that time goes by even faster the second year, so we'll see I guess right?

Some thoughts on self-discipline:

One definitely needs self-discipline as a missionary. I thought it'd be more strict, or that I'd be under a tighter watch as a missionary. But that's not the case, there's all sorts of opportunities to be disobedient if I want, but that's where the self discipline comes into play, and training yourself to not want to be disobedient but to always do whats right.

Well thanks for everything and for the box that will be coming :) I am always praying for you, have a great week!
Love,
Elder DeLong