This whole past week the temperatures haven’t been to bad. They’ve been between 40-45 degrees everyday. It’s been raining everyday which sucks, but at least it wasn’t cold! Then this morning, we woke up to 2 inches of snow! It’s supposed to be in the 20s today with the wind chill bringing it down to about 9 degrees. Which pretty much sucks but oh well.
This week was pretty good. It’s interesting being a trainer. I’m constantly evaluating the day and making sure I’m teaching my companion all he needs to know. My new companions name is Elder Alger and he is from Mesa Arizona. He’s pretty cool but the cold weather is a big shock for him –haha. We had a pretty slow week last week, but we were able to get our first potential investigator together! Which is really good too because Romeo hasn’t gotten a new potential investigator in over 3 weeks. But we knocked on this lady’s house (or mansion I should say) and she was really nice and invited us to come back. We had been tracting for about 4 hours when we knocked on her door and everyone had told us ‘no’ so when she said yes Elder Alger froze up —-haha. It was funny because he didn’t know what to do after they said yes so I took over and handled the rest of the situation. Training is a pretty interesting experience and I haven’t decided how much I like it yet. It’s hard running an entire area basically by yourself because Elder Alger doesn’t really know how yet. Plus, I’m constantly reevaluating how I do things and how I teach things to make sure I’m teaching him the right stuff. And it’s hard too because I feel like I’m still learning too. But President Holmes told me that the elders he picks as trainers, are the elders he wants new missionaries to become, so that was a pretty nice complement.
We went over to the Maxfield’s last Friday and played a sweet game with them. It was called Telestrations and it was way fun. You guys should definitely check it out. We visited a lot of members last week because most of our investigators were still out of town. I felt bad because Elder Alger was so excited to teach some investigators, but we couldn’t get in touch with any! The main ones we usually see were all out of town last week. But hopefully this week will finally be a normal week again.
We took Emilio out with us to a bunch of teaching appointments last week and that was pretty sweet. We’ve been trying to get more members to come with us to teaching appointments so our investigators get more comfortable with the church. One of the kids in our branch just got his mission call to Las Vegas so we’ve recruited him to come out teaching with us to prepare. It’s hard to find members to go teach with us when our branch is relatively small and everyone works every day, but we try our best.
Well, hope you’re all doing well and not to bummed to be going back to school and work. I love you guys a lot and thanks for all the letters and packages you’ve sent!
-Erik