Happy Wallentines Day!

This picture is of the hermanas in our zone who made signs that read "Will you be our Wallentine?"

 for Elder Wallentine in our Zone they had one person go in and have him stand up

 then they each came in one by one with their sign then hermana Crosby gave him a ring-pop, haha

 

First of all Happy Birthday Nathan! Sorry I couldn't tell you yesterday, I didn't get a chance to write letters while I was sick in bed so by the time I could have written one you would have got it later than this email since it takes like four days! But I hope that you had a great Birthday! Also please tell Grandma Happy Birthday for me!

My favorite Devotional so far was by a Brother Clayton in the Seventy who talked on the importance of being a missionary who is very conserned about both the investigators and the members. He said that we should know all of the members in the area so that when we are teaching investigators we will know who they can be freinds with in the ward when they go to church. He related this to the story of the lost sheep and how when the master found it he picked it up and carried it (not dragged it) back to the fold then encircled it in its freinds so that they could help the sheep to want to stay.

I haven't met any general authorities, hijole! Elder Holland was here for a devotional the night before I got there! Elder Reynolds actually was there a day early and got to see it, it sounded like it was amazing!

 

As far as embarassing things that have happened it has pretty much just been saying stupid things in Spanish such as:

We all fish sometimes - pecado vs pescado

I once asked to help the bed in a prayer when I meant to say bless the house - ayuda la cama vs bendigo la casa - this was in the first few days
I once told our investigator that our message was strange because I couldn't think of the word for different
Elder Reynolds once said that the BoM is a ring in a lesson
I can't think of any particularly weird habits that my companions have besides that Elder Reynolds will snore on occasion.

A Very Blue District

 

It has been great being a zone leader. The only downsides are that you have a lot of meetings to go to on sunday, but thats not too bad. We get to introduce the new districts in our zone to the MTC and give them a tour of the MTC. The only thing about that is we haven't had new districts for the past two weeks because of the new intermediate spanish zone that was made. We are incharge of looking out for all of the people in our zone and we interview the district leader each week to see how everone is doing then report the the branch president on this. We are also the ones incharge of making sure that our zone is following the rules.

As far as letters I wish everyone would write me more letters :P I have had people write and say that they will keep their letter short because I probably don't have enought time to read them but that is not true. Make sure that myth is corrected! I have plenty of time to read letters the only thing we don't have as much time for is writing back. I try to write everone back either personally or answer their questions in my family letters! I wish that I had the time to write each individual back always but that doesn't always happen. But I love getting them and have plenty of time to read them! As for specific people I haven't got many from freinds and that would be nice. But I aways love hearing from my family especially because I used to be able to talk to all of you every day and now I feel like I hardly even know what you are doing! I love to hear what is going on in your days!

I have to get off for now but hopefully I'll have time to write you in the laundery room too, love you guys very much!

I am getting better! I am not totally better but I haven't been spending all day in bed since tuesday! Today I have pretty much only a cough left so I am almost over it! I did get the birthday packages! they are awesome! I love all of it! the canteen tie is way cool, I had never heard of one before! The umbrella will be awesome for Argentina! I got a ton of candy between the three packages! It is all very delicious! Please thank both grandparents for me and Thank you for your package! Thanks again, It was crazy because I got three packages all on the same day, haha it was awesome!

 

The first picture is of the sheets me and Elder Decker put up on our beds when I was sick all day

and so we made "man caves". We are lucky because with all the new elders coming in they have

been putting in a third bunkbed in each room except ours because it is slightly smaller than the rest,

so while we have only three missionaries in our room most everyone else had six :P