October 4, 2010

Hey :)
So, I went to the coast!! Haha, looks like those feelings I had were right. My sector is called Llo Lleo, its a town next to San Antonio. We can't see the ocean from our apartment, but from all of the sector we have a great view. It is way cool. I'm a district leader now and also finishing the training of Elder Nielson from St George UT but he grew up a bit in MN :) He is really nice and very happy. I guess he had a tough train with his trainer, so President sent me over to help him out. We will have a good change here.
I have 10 missionaries in my district, 4 sisters and 6 elders. It's pretty big. It will be a good experience for me. But I am definitely excited for this opportunity. Something kind of interesting is that the 5th of October we will be having a tsunami drill here. So everyone will have to run up to the hills to the higher ground. I think we'll have to participate as well. Should be interesting though. My sector is big! (compared to my last one) In the middle of Llo Lleo is sisters and we are on the outside. Our sector is a big U, so we have to take a lot of buses to get around. Yes I do know who elder Grow's new companion is, his name is elder Granda. He is latino, so that will be a good experience for him to improve his spanish. It was sad to say goodbye, but I was happy to leave that apartment, not only did it smell because of the humidity but not I don't have to worry about getting robbed! Thats a relief.

Steven did like the temple a lot, we as missionaries can't do the baptisms but I did conformations which was fun for me :) Steven cried when I left..It was sad. But he is so great, he'll be a great missonary.

I just remembered something. After we were watching Gen Conf one elder in my district, elder Hollister, said, 'they have been talking about obeying the prophet a lot, the prophet is going to tell us something big' That didn't happen, but almost EVERYone talked about obeying the prophet and agency, so be sure to give heed to the counsels.

Okay well I think that is it for now.

Oh and mom, one more request if it is possible could you send one of those aerobie ring frisbees? The one that you sent me, well after the accident with the spine I lost it. I don't know where it went. But now that I'm here on the coast and we have a beach..well I gotta take advantage of it. But they don't sell frisbees here. But it you can't dont worry about it. But if you can send it fast cuz we only have till the middle of Nov to go to the beach, because after that all the other people start going, ha.

Okay well hope that you all have a great week! You're all always in my prayer :)

Love,

Elder Jeff DeLong