"A good ol´ week"

So, yup. this week was a good ol´ week. I spent the whole day Friday riding the buses with Elder Watts heading to the other end of the city to do 2 interviews for Elder Jensen before he had to run off to do 2 more for the sisters. Well we got there, and I finished the first interview, very snappy, then the next one. They were two sisters and the older one went last, she passed all the questions but she said at the end that she didn´t think that she was ready, so I tried helping her out, telling her how she really was ready, trying to make her understand that she should baptize and all that, and as we were talking her dad came home and met the missionaries around the table and started yelling that his kids weren´t ready blah blah blah, and the girl started crying so I wasn´t about ready to let her leave the room and enter that mess. Luckily Elder Watts got up and managed to calm the guy down. Then Saturday I got the good news that they both got baptized, and the zone had 5 baptisms for the week. Woo!! I think we came in second place this week. not too shabby.

On Tuesday, we had another conference with the zone leaders and president again. Ours was the only zone that got a *congratulations* during the whole thing. Only because we had improved a butt-load since last month, and we had tons of dates marked for this month already, so pres was pretty happy. Not too much changed though, now the mission has a rule to fast every Wednesday, and nothing much other than that. We still have the goal to baptize 300 people in one month... we´ll see how that goes. We´re getting better though. But it´s nice to know that my district from the mtc is ruling the mission with an iron first, there´s only 5 missionaries from my group and 3 are zone leaders, 1 used to be but is now a district leader, and another is district leader and training. Bow down to district 34-G, haha. :D

That´s way cool that you got to talk with Sister Sanders, it was fun to get to know them that Sunday. Fun stuff indeed.

The other day we knocked on a door, and I saw through the window a prayer altar, and I called that they were gonna be Buddhist, and I was right :D oh yeah. And I learned something interesting: it´s probably a very good thing I didn´t get called to serve in Asia, cuz if i were, I´d spend the whole two years asking a mountain of questions about the culture and religion and I wouldn´t focus on the work. which is what I did Saturday night. haha.

The work is going alright here, we have few people that are going to church but aren´t accepting a date, then we have people who accept the date but wont go to church!, aaahhh!! shoot me now!

Yes, I did open a couple of my presents, not all of them though, I left the squishy ones (sock or tshirt) wrapped up, and when we had our leadership council last Monday everybody had fun playing around with all my action figures. am I the coolest zone leader ever? I think so. And I guess my fame as ´the gamer´ had spread, because they asked my to give a speech about the story of halo. So I did 30 minutes later and everybody had their minds exploded. Good times. haha.

ANYWAYS. speaking of kayaking and all that, I miss going to deer creek, and boating to techno music, and sitting on the rocks at the lake side.

I left my planner at the house and I was too lazy to go back and get it. So I can´t really remember what´s happened this week. My planner is like my life. A missionary without a planner is useless..... I feel so naked without it. Also another thing I´ve realized is how time passes differently at different stages in the mission:
Greenie/junior: time passes the slowest cuz all you do is follow thinking about home
Senior: I dunno, never was one
District leader: Time goes by faster cuz you have to think about your area, then the areas of your district, always worried about what´s going on
Zone Leader: Time speeds by like crazy, the week is over before I realize it´s even started, having to worry about half a city keeps my mind occupied during the whole day, while trying to not let my area be neglected, and fearing to get my hide burned by President. Oh my how time passes.

Well that was my discovery for this week. I hope everybody is having fun, in the middle east, at sport camps, on the lake, and all that.

LOVE YOU ALL!!
*la la la la la...la la la la la la la...la la la la la...*
- our *party on the boat at Deer Creek* song

Elder Webber