So like I said in the subject, I'm pretty much half way through my stay in the MTC, only 5 weeks to go as of today. So we're super excited to get out of here even though we're still loving it. We had our first set of missionaries leave this morning from our zone (The Dutch), so it was super sad to see them go but they're going to kill it out there and it just made us even more excited to get out into the field as well. Plus that means new Dutch missionaries!
So my companion and I had an interesting experience yesterday. We were just casually sitting in our classroom waiting for fast/testimony meeting to start, when our Branch President, President Mehr, called us in to tell us that he wanted to assign us to be the new Zone Leaders! It's super crazy, we weren't expecting it at all. So now we have plenty of meetings, a phone and a fancy binder. We also get to welcome all the new Dutch missionaries on Wednesday which will be cool. So we're excited to work out what we're meant to be doing as zone leaders but it should be a fun experience.
This week my companion and I learnt the power of teaching pamphlets, especially when you barely know how to speak the language. There's no way we would have been able to teach anything to our investigators yet without them, they're the best!
We also had a cool experience this week when we taught TRC (the thing where we teach actual members), they didn't have enough people for all of us to teach, so we had to teach with the other companionship that we room with. But the problem was that we had prepared two completely different things to teach about. So they led their lesson first and then we did ours second, but it was really cool because we had prepared a lesson on faith then afterwards in the review thing that we get he said that faith was exactly what he needed to hear about then and he was almost in tears from feeling the spirit in the lesson. We weren't even going to teach about faith originally, so it was just a super cool experience of a prompting from the Holy Ghost and it reminded us of how even though we're teaching members that we can still strengthen their relationship with Christ.
Also my companion finally got his cast off! So that's cool.
But that's all I've got for today, so enjoy!
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McKim Elder
Ps. The pictures are a picture of my zone before the Dutch left, then a picture of me with the Dutch elders, Elder Waters and Elder Penman (the sun is super bright, that's why I'm squinting)
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