Hey Mom!
It sounds like ryans team is really tearing it up! I bet he
is excited for playoff time.
This week was a wild one but it was pretty fun. We had
specialized training meeting tuesday through friday at all the zones around the
mission. Elder Daley and I taught about the principle of sacrifice. At the
beginning of out instruction we called all the district leaders to come up and
I would explain to them their task which was to get the shoes of all the
missionaries in their district and bring them up to me. The catch was they
couldn't tell the missionaries why they were getting the shoes, all they could
do is ask for them. Whoever got all their shoes and brought them back to me
first won a piece of candy for their whole district. After that little game we
would identify the principles of sacrifice from it and there was a lot to
learn! I like teaching at these meetings because I end up learning a lot
more.
After the meeting we finished the transfer board items on
Saturday. Monday started the transfer week! We drove to memphis for the
departing missionary temple trip. We then picked up the new missionaries
tuesday afternoon. Did you talk to Sister Garcias mom? We picked her up too.
She is serving in Southaven Mississippi right now.
Anyways, the real doozie of this whole transfer week is that
Elder Daley and I made the trip to Memphis and back (3 hour drive) 3 times in 3
days! Once on monday with the temple trip, then we went back to memphis tuesday
night and stayed at President Floyds house, then at 6 in the morning we took
missionaries getting transferred to Little Rock over there, then we took the
missionaries going to Memphis back over there, and then we went back to Little
Rock. Long day! Transfer week is always fun though because you get to see
mission buddies you haven't seen in a minute.
Things are going really well over
here. Its busy but its fulfilling. I am convinced the only way you can truly be
happy in this life is when you are not trying to make yourself happy. True joy
comes from serving others. On this mission I have never been more tired in my
life and at times I have never felt so inadequate but its easy to find joy when
your focus is on lifting another.
Sorry I didn't have time to write on monday mom but I hope
ya know I love ya! Thank you for all that you do!
