That activity
at the McClellan’s sounds awesome! They are such a good family. Sounds like
Grandpas birthday was a really good experience. I love that guy. Sister Morgan
quilts a little bit so you should send me pictures of your quilts when you’re
done so i can show her them.
The Christianson’s homecoming sounds
like it was awesome. I don’t know if he even knows who I am but I am way
excited to get to talk to President Christianson again when I get home. He was
a really good guy.
We had a really good week
but it was really normal and uneventful. Monday was
really fun because we went and picked up some goals from some members and
played soccer under the arch for a while. I was pretty dang sunburned already
from the Saturday service day and I was completely fried
after being out in the sun for that many more hours. It was really fun
though.
The next 3 days after that
we had interviews all day. Last time we had interviews it was like the hardest
month of my mission. It was just so exhausting and boring and it was just
rough. And this time it still isn’t my favorite thing in the world, but we
changed one thing and we are having the district leaders and someone else in
the district give a training. It has been really fun to get to listen to other
people teach instead of just us talking the whole time. Each training has been
left with a commitment so by time we are done I’ll have about 60 commitments
left to me to work on so I’ll have a lot of goals of things to get better at by
the end of the transfer.
Friday and Saturday we went on exchanges with some zone leaders. We went
down to Cape Girardeau on Friday and we had a pretty
cool experience. I was with Elder Bassett and that morning they had gotten a
call from a member in one of the wards down there. He said that he had the
missionaries coming over to teach at his house that night and he wanted us to
come help them because they were really struggling with teaching. We headed
down and talked to them about it and helped teach them and it was cool to see
the missionary’s reactions. One of them was really nice and happy but you could
tell everything we were saying was just going right over his head and none of
it was really soaking in. The other missionary is really young, really good,
and really humble. He took everything we had to say and started taking notes
and working on it. He was a better teacher by the end of the night. It was cool
to see 2 missionaries with the same ability level receiving the exact same
training and one of them got nothing from it and the other one got a ton from
it. It just goes to show that really it doesn’t matter what we are taught or
how good our teachers are. If we are looking for something to improve on and change
in ourselves we are going to find something to work on.
This coming week is going to
be one full of a lot of different things. We have a couple days of interviews
and day of MLC and a couple days of zone leader exchanges. MLC is going to be
interesting because its President Morganas first one so we will see how he
likes sitting in a big room full of 20 year olds for 6 hours trying to make
decisions haha. It can be pretty interesting sometimes.
This week has been full of a
lot of trials for a lot of missionaries. We have seen everything from emergency
surgery to deaths of parents this week. It has been a real growing experience
for everyone involved and it’s been cool to see the different reactions. Some
people just keep on going and learn a lot from it and are better people because
of it. And then of course you have a few who just completely shut down and let
it ruin them. It has built my testimony that hard things happen to everyone and
it can ruin us, or if we put our faith in Christ, then we will be able to make
it through and be better people because of it.
I
am so thankful for all of the different things that have happened to me on my
mission and the wide variety of experiences I have had the opportunity to have.
I’m thankful for the chance that I still have to grow out here and hope that
the rest of my mission can be just as good, or better, than what it has been so
far.
-Elder Banks
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