Hey! I'm not the District Leader any more, I guess they didn't like
me so they kicked me out early. Instead I am now a Zone Leader in training and
will be a Zone Leader along with Elder Reynolds starting tomorrow. Elder Decker
is now our District Leader.
Elder Pickle's Companionship
Elder Pickle"s District
The last two weeks have been pretty much the same thing. We
have six hours of class every day with a teacher, we have around four hours of
personal/language/companion/aditional study times where it is just our District
in the classroom and we are studying based on the type of study it is and the
lessons that are coming up for our investigators. We now have two new
investigators Christian and Jonathan. Christian is Hermano Tidwell and Jonathan
is Hermano Wood. It was kind of weird having Hermano Tidwell be a investigator
for us since he was our teacher for the first week. With Hermano Wood it wasn't
so wierd as it was sometimes hard to remember that we are now teaching him as
Jonathan instead of Edgar.
When we taught Christian for the first time we thought that
we had our best lession yet, but when we got out of it Hermano Painter (who we
had come as an investigator) told us that if Christian was a real investigator
he would have dropped us. Because of this we had to start over with Christian
and taught him again yesterday. We did much better and we really connected with
him and we were able to get through pretty much the whole first lesson and he
agreed to read the first chapter of the Book of Mormon and pray about it! We
also taught Jonathan and it went pretty good. We were able to cover half the
first lesson and he agreed to read the first chapter of the Book of Mormon.
We have been learning about the past, past participles,
preterite, imperfect, conditional, and other such Spanish principles and
refining those. I have started writing a letter in Spanish to you guys that I
will probably finish during some language study and you can have Paul or Bryan
read it to you.
In our standard week here we have normal days on Mondays,
Thursdays, and Saturdays. On Tuesdays we do service in the morning which
usually entails cleaning something in the building. The first week we cleaned
the toilets.. It wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. We would spray them
down with acid and then scrub them with a long brush and throw a bucket of
water on them to rinse them off. This last week we cleaned the sinks which was
the same proccess for cleaning them but it wasn't the nasty toilets. When we
were cleaning the toilets one of them was all clogged and nasty and the
custodial guy had to go grab his plunger and unplug it. Elder Decker was the
unfortunate soul who had to clean that toilet :P We also have a Devotional
usually from a general authority that night! On Wednesdays all the new
missionaries come in from 12:30 - 2:30 so that night we meet the new districts
in our Zone which is growing to be huge and then since Elder Reynolds and I are
now Zone Leaders we give them an introduction to the MTC and introduce
ourselves and they Introduces themselves then we talk about a few of the rules.
On Thursday nights we also give the new Districts a tour of the MTC and talk
about a few more rules. On Fridays we have Pday! We start the day by going to
the temple at 6:30 in the morning and since we are there during breakfast we
buy it there or we don't get to eat so that was what I bought today, haha Then
we have some personal time to write emails and letters and do laundry. Then we
have only three hours of class that night. Sundays we have Priesthood,
Sacrement, Temple walk, and a devotional that night! The devotionals are always
great here! They are one of my favorite parts of the MTC. I was sad that the
day right before I got here Elder Holland came and spoke but I didn't get a
chance to see him! We have heard from people such as Brother Evans who
was over the missionaries, Brother Clayton who is in the seventy and some
others whose name I cannot think of right this moment.
We spend pretty much our whole day in the classroom. We do
get some gym time that me and Elder Decker have been running during. I am not a
runner, my legs get sore well before I am ever tired of running. We started
running and we ran two miles two days ago and two and a half yesterday.
Tomorrow we are planning on running three and keep going up a half mile until
we get to six.
Well I have to cut this letter here but I will be sending
pictures in a bit and I will write more letters! Hope to hear from you soon!
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