20 June 2011 - email

Hey there,

So my companion's name is Elder Xavier. He's from São Paulo and he's pretty excited about the mission. He's going through first-month-trunkiness (most elders pass that), but he wants to do everything. He already knows how to bring the spirit into a lesson. I just have to help him learn the techniques. The new program for training new missionaries is a twelve week program (which makes it likely that I will be here for another three months).

I don't think I told you, but I'm also a District Leader now. Yeah, talk about throwing everything at you at once: New comp, new training method, new trainer, new district leader, new ward mission leader, etc. It's a lot! Thankfully my district is small (me and one other area) and they are hard-working, obedient missionaries.

Well, that pretty much describes this whole week; running up and down with a new missionary showing him everything and trying to pretend like I knew what I was doing. I remember what that was like, needing to trust that your comp knew everything. (Elder Wells was good at that. Two weeks in the area and he pretended pretty good.) New missionaries already have too much to worry about without their trainer showing discomfort or uncertainty.


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