Blood of the Scribe

Blood of the Scribe

Hello Family, no I still haven't gotten the package yet, mail travels really slowly here... I guess... It'll come one day...

So... This week was rather slow but I've gotten used to it now. We had interviews with President on Thursday and he was thinking about closing down the other spanish area here in Conroe and asked me what I thought about that. Well when they first proposed opening up another spanish area here in Conroe I was wholeheartedly for it, because our area was so flipping big. Though after a couple transfers I realize now that there's not quite enough work for two companionships. So that's what I told President, that closing down the other spanish area wouldn't be a bad idea there are other places in the mission that apparently are in 'dire need' of spanish missionaries. So perhaps they will close down the other area and have only one companionship for Conroe again. I really could care less now, hopefully I'm on my last transfer here.

So... Conference. Was pretty good, we got luckly and our Chapel here in Conroe was one of the few that were broadcasting conference. Now for us missionaries, Conference is a mad scramble of trying to get investigators to watch it, it's great because there are five sessions over two days and thus nobody would have a good excuse to not come to one of them. So to the 1st session nobody showed, it was just us eight missionaries and a handful of the nearby members of the english wards. They had the relief society room in the back that was broadcasting it in spanish. Nobody came for that. 2nd session we got one member and one investigator to come. A lot more came to the priesthood session and we got a few more of our members for the sunday sessions. Not a big turnout. During conference I jumped back and forth between english and spanish. I could understand most it pretty well in spanish. The problem is I'm still not yet at the point where I can passively understand spanish. I have to be concentrating or else it just sounds like a bunch of vowel sounds spilling out all over the place. So when I got bored or unfocused (a common occurrence) I would fall asleep. I've been doing that a lot lately, I've become constantly tired as a missionary, I'm even developing the ability to power-nap. I fell asleep during some of the sessions in english too I was just so freaking tired. However there were some great talks and I can't wait for the may ensign. There were some particular talks that I really liked but can't recall them off the top of my head right now.

Well that's about all I got right now, most of this week has had me trying to keep the other elders in line, they're incredibly disobedient to the mission rules so that has been an ongoing struggle in our apartment, it's difficult but whatever... I only got a few more weeks here, then I ought to be in a new area.

Okay I'm done, love you all.

-- Elder Rice