Sunday, June 17, 2012

A Day in the Life





Concilio went good. May was a rough month for the mission so we talked a lot about plans to step up in June. Pretty sure we'll have a better month in June despite starting the month in with changes.
Change week is always hard because all the new missionaries don't know their zones or the investigators really well but I don't think it will hit us too hard. At least it shouldn't if we've all been keeping are stuff up to date ("stuff" being area books and baptismal calendars and various other things you don't really care about). We've been training a lot this last month on rendir cuentas and verification (I cannot for the life of me remember how to say rendir cuentas in english...) and more that a couple times I've found myself saying something about "I've asked you to do this before" or "Who did you expect would do it for you" (except in spanish and more gently...) and I had to look back over my shoulder to see if Dad was standing there. Missions really are little mini-lives. Real weird. Elder Wright goes home this week. The rest of his group leaves today but his parents came so he'll be kickin it with them around here for a week and then go home around sunday.

Really weird to see guys go, the outside world is a scary place.

Anyways, I got a package from Grandma and Pops this week. Those guys we're definitely Johnny on the spot with the supply drop. Swedish fish, Pistachios and sour patch kids; exactly what my study sessions have been lacking. Which for some reason reminds me... This last week we had a ward activity. We had a fulbito tourny with basketball and volley and a little ring toss game I set up to win drinks and then we had the other missionaries come with their wards and do a waterballoon toos. It went real good. But somehow during the past month we've been planning my ward completely spaced the small detail of requesting money from the church budget. ie. I ended up bank rolling the thing.
 The good news is I'm a chungo ex-Financial sec and know where to go for cheap goods. So I bought somewhere between 60-70 drinks/prizes for like, 20 bones. holla.