Life. Lately. 3/26/2018

  First of all, it's been round about 9 months, and I'm sure that some, if not all of you, are sick of getting my weekly email. So if you want to get off my list, simply send me $20 cash (or equivalent in Taco Bell gift cards) and a handwritten note about why you'd like to be removed, and I'll have my secretary process your request within 1 transfer of receiving it.
     Ok, now for the missionary life report. Training is HARD. Every single day has some new challenge or some surprise. And when your trainee is still rather unfamiliar with the language and has never lived on his own, the missionary term for trainer, "dad", takes on a literal meaning... I don't know what kind of light switches Elder Chan had at his house, but he lived in Orem for 3 years, so I would have assumed they were a rather traditional, American style. But we have a daily seminar on what switch does what. I also spend a lot of time going over what tracting is, and I have trouble getting him to talk much during lessons. But hey, that's what training is for, right? I'm trying to teach him the ropes, and figure it out better myself. 
     This week was just lovely, I woke up Wednesday with what I'm sure was Ebola. So the better part of the week was rough. To help the situation, the investigators and Less Active's we've been working with decided to cancel their appointments, so literally all we had to do was tract, or work on the Area Book. And being sick, the Area Book sounds wayyyyyy better. On Wednesday I got to give a lovely District Meeting on the Safeguards for Using Technology. I'm excited to get Smartphones, but honestly I'm fairly tired of all the training, so I think I'd be chill with the awesome slider phones we have currently... The greatest part of the District Meeting was the Senior couple. In my study text that I sent out, I said I would be offering Extra Credit for anyone who wrote an essay about why I was the best District Leader in the Mission. Obviously this was a joke, but the Morrey's are some of the coolest people ever. So they literally made a presentation about me that included football pictures and all sorts of great shots from various meetings. It was hilarious, and now I've gotta remember how to make brownies for their "Extra Credit." On Saturday night, Elder Chan and I went tracting for about 3 hours... We taught 1 lesson (kind of), and picked up ZERO investigators. We did talk to a very nice elderly Baptist lady, who had at one point been to Salt Lake and seen Temple Square, so we gave her a picture of the Temple, and told us to call us if she ever needed any service done. She then asked us if we lived on our own and had to make our own food and stuff, we said yes, and she asked how old we were. She was very surprised that I was still 18, and thought it was amusing that we tried to cook. She then said she was cold and went inside. So Elder Chan and I carried on knocking doors. About 30 minutes later, a car pulled up behind us and started honking, I was figuring it was some crazy person here to yell at us about how Saturday is the real Sabbath and how they're Christian but they only use the Koran and they pray towards Mecca and they practice all these weird feasts I've never heard of. (Because that happened the last time we tracted on a Saturday.) But no, it was the super friendly Baptist lady. She had chased us down to give us a present. Apparently she makes these custom sponge things that are for cleaning dishes, and she wanted us to have them, since "you young boys probably have a pile of dishes that need cleaning." Idk how she knew that, but she knew it. That was the first, and probably the last time someone will chase us down to give us a present after we knock on their door and they told us they were not interested. So that was cool, and gave us a little hope after not picking up a single investigator after tracting nearly 100 miles of neighborhoods. 
SHOUTOUT TO ALL THE AWESOME PEOPLE I HAVE SUPPORTING ME FROM GHANA TO BOSNIA TO UTAH TO TEXAS TO RUSSIA AND BACK. LOVE YOU ALL. KEEP BEIN AWESOME. ILL TALK TO Y'ALL NEXT WEEK.

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