Hey
mom,
It’s been quite a fun week getting a new start on everything again
this transfer and with my new awesome comp Elder Liesmann. It’s been a blast
even though this week was a bit tougher because Friday was a holiday and
everyone left town or was drunk at the bar. But all in all it was a good time
and another great learning experience.
It was just another week of work but we held a mini zone meeting
to be able to present everyone and talk about our expectations as zone leaders
and then we left time open for everyone to give their input on what they would
like from us. I just want everyone in the zone to be really happy and hope that
they all can have lots of success. It was a really good meeting and we have
tons of good ideas now to incorporate in training and teaching the other
missionaries.
It was a good Sunday also, I was asked to give the talk that I didn’t
give last week. After I spoke the patriarch's wife spoke about marriage. She is
a pretty old lady but she is just hilarious. She spoke forever and church ended
twenty minutes later than normal. But it was worth it all. The new bishop had
kept telling her that her time was up but she just ignored him and just finally
said, ok just five more minutes and started pulling out magazines and tons of
other books and summarized a bunch of long stories she was going to tell. It’s
always a blast listening to her. I hope when I am old I can be crazy and funny
too.
That night I had a meeting with the district leader and the other
zone leader to plan our meeting for tomorrow and I am pretty excited. But we
also discovered that two missionaries in our zone had gone to the hospital to
get their appendixes taken out. It was pretty crazy but now everyone is doing
well.
Today I was really excited to get out and play some basketball and
meet up with a bunch of other elders in a big park that they have downtown but Kaique’s
mom wanted to have lunch with me and the AP, because the AP passed in this area
and baptized Kaique's mom a transfer before I got here. I wasn’t too happy
because lunch was in the middle of our day and was going to use up a bunch of
time and I just wanted as if I was a grounded little boy. But when we got there
to eat we all ate and talked and she sat us down and started talking to us and
thanking us for what he had done as missionaries. She read us her patriarchal
blessing which she had recently received. It talked about her posterity. We
were all kind of crying together and she just thanked us for helping her. Mom, I
don’t know what the Lord is trying to teach me, but recently I have been
reading in the Old Testament and everything they did had to do with the
posterity. I was really taken back, I had complained to go and use up a few
hours of my p day to eat but had I known that I was also about to have one of
the best lessons of my mission, I wouldn’t have complained one bit. I am so
grateful to the Lord and grateful to Andreya (Kaique's mom) for the things she
had taught us and for opening our vision to see the effects of the gospel and
this work.
I just kept thinking in my mind all day “this is the work of
SALVATION" and it wasn’t easy to get a testimony of that. A lot of times
we as missionaries look at our work as simple be a friend, or knock on a door,
or church work or whatever little insignificant thing our tiny earthly brains
think of. But it’s so so so much more than that. The results are things we can’t
imagine and I just can’t wait to grow my whole life having these new friends
and the life to come we will all be rejoicing together.
I love you all so much, Dad have the greatest birthday ever!
Next one, I will be there to celebrate with ya. I love you all have the
greatest week.
Elder
Paynter
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