On Thursday my companion FINALLY got here from Cusco with the two new
elders that will be living in our house. Elder Pavon (my companion) is
from Paraguay. He has one change less than me in the mission field. He
started in Andahuaylas when I was with Elder Johanson and we lived in
the same house for two changes. He's really cool. I think it'll take a
while to get used to each other's personalities but we get along just
fine and our styles of doing missionary work and teaching mesh quite
nicely. From day one he's been bringing up lots of really good ideas and
suggestions. I think he's exactly the companion that I've been praying
for. This is going to be a good change for sure.
The
other two elders in our house are Elder Zerillo and Elder Reyes.
They're both from Lima and they're both really cool. All the new guys
are very polite to the pensionistas which I love about them. One of the
other missionaries from before was kind of obnoxious and it frustrated
me a little bit.
As far as my zone leader job
goes, I'm basically a nanny for 18 other missionaries. Whenever someone
has a question they ask us, whenever someone gets sick they come to us,
whenever someone misbehaves we have to take care of it. Sometimes it
gets really stressful and frustrating, but other times it's chill and I
actually forget that I'm a zone leader. I think I'm going to be bald by
the time I get home though. Oh well.
This week
(once Elder Pavon got here. The other days I was staying with elders in
another sector) we worked a lot with J, our golden investigator. One
day we gave him all of the pamphlets and told him he could read if he
felt like it, and left him a reading assignment in the BOM. The next day
we had an appointment with him and he had read all six AND written
little summaries of each pamphlet AND had read the BOM from the
beginning until first Nefi. Pretty darn cool. He has a baptismal date
for the fifth of September. Things are great with him. The members are
also doing a great job at fellowshipping him.
That's
the only news I have for this week. Feel free to take out whatever you
want from my package so it's cheaper and I'll just buy what I can here. I
found a blender for like 60 soles that's really nice that I'm
considering buying to make fruit smoothies and stuff to maybe help with
my hunger and just to have a healthier diet in general. I don't want you
to feel like you have to spend tons of money on me or send lots of
things. Just the things I can't find here. The rest I can just buy so
it's cheaper and easier. For real though, don't send tons of food. Just
treats and snacks and I'll figure out the rest. If worse comes to worst,
I'll just walk it off and be a man.
I love you
all and pray for you every day! Don't sweat about school, mom. You'll be
great! No
worries! I love you tons! Tell Dad and Trevor and Hilary good luck with
starting school too. Love you all tons!
Love,
Elder Tate
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