May 31, 2010

I love Mondays. OH zone leaders just got here with mail! Hope I got some. Hold on. ONE letter from Lindsay! Yes, I needed it. Sooo the last week with Elder England, sad. I was wrong, today is the last Pday with him. He leaves Thursday morning and Wednesday I get my new companion. OH man its scary, taking over the area yikes! People are betting I will be training but I really don't think so and hope not, I don't know enough!

The end of my second transfer! Just fifteen more to go, seems like alot but it really its not. I'm already 1/8th done and these two transfers flew by, so two more transfers it will be 1/4 done! I haven't learnt enough, its going by to fast! Well not really its a good pace.
I'm writing at the zone building again and its so hard! I am so bad at focusing with distractions! Elder England doesn't stop talking, he's a little excited. This week was probably one of the harder weeks, so much talk about home and Elder Englands future plans! AGH! But at least it will be easier to focus after this week, although he has been really good up until the last couple days. So this was probably one of our lower weeks with numbers but I have a couple people lined up this week who I will pick up and put on date.

The two highlights this week were Sis. Vigil's baptism and our Mission Temple Day. Sister Vigil's baptism was great. OK I can't focus, Elder England is off the wall pestering everyone. Sorry if this weeks letter is really not that good I promise it will be great next week. But the baptism which was on Saturday was wonderful. I don't think I will ever attend a baptism that was as good as Lindsay's. In this mission we are pretty spoiled. We baptise like crazy here and my goal for my mission is to baptize weekly. Its possible. The problem is you can be the laziest Elder alive, be completely disobedient and still have tons of success here. That's why we set goals our goals so high because with extremely hard and boring work its possible to baptise weekly. Where in other missions you put in the same amount of work and your lucky to come home baptizing one person. My point here is that while I was sitting in Sister Vigil's baptism I was thinking man some Elders this would be the biggest moment of their mission and here we just get so casual with the whole thing. So on Sunday she was confirmed during sacrament, the way its suppose to be. But the Bishop at the baptism invited every Melchizedek Priesthood holder to stand in on the confirmation and there ended up being about 15 people! It was so dumb! We could hardly reach in there, in Preach my Gospel it says you want about 3-4!

I gave to talks yesterday, and based them off the talk Dad sent me. In one of them the Bishop gave us the entire sacrament meeting to speak, so I took about 20 minutes. Slowly getting better and better.

The Temple Mission Day! All 200 young missionaries gathered in the chapel of the Jordan River Temple last Wednesday. I love the temple. I can't believe we have one back home! just as lucky as we are here in this mission to be able to attend the temple each week. President Laney, the Temple President's wife and the Temple President spoke to us inside the temple! It's cool because they get to speak to us about the temple ceremonies because we are inside the temple! Each time I go I learn something knew from personal revelation. The only sad thing everything to do with the temple is about marriage! They even talk to us about the importance of marriage and we are all missionaries! I got trunky and I've only been out 3 months! Later we went to a stake center in the valley and had a huge lunch, it was nice to see my old zone leaders and Elders from the other zone. Ohh and Elder Wright whos blog Lindsay is reading was in my old zone, great guy or Elder.

Planning the summer trip for when I get home already! Sounds good to me. Lets go to Powell Lake house boating for week, then make a week just touring sites in southern Utah and visiting families in the valley. The Roosendaals want me to come back the first summer home with my friend...... and they are going to take us to Lake Powell boating. So many families I've met already that I'm sure I will be close to forever.

Meeting Elder Meads was awesome. He knew everyone! Biggs, Hirsches, Spencer Dorward, Eli Deghani and more! He served in Highlands ward and over in Riverbend Stake and Millwoods Stake. He reminded me of Jason (Low) big time, played BYU ball and went into med school but switched to law. Tall and same look to him.

OK I'm sorry this letter wasn't that great, so many Elders and Sisters talking, Elder England acting all trunky and I am terrible at focusing with distractions. So I guess next week you will know who's my new companion, pretty excited. It will be a good change up. Wish me luck, pray for me. And let me know how Paiges grad goes, hope all goes well and shes safe. Miss all of you, Love Elder Pizzey.