June 17th

Hey! Hope you all had a great week. Happy Fathers day. I think its a rip we don't get to talk on the phone but I guess that's alright.

 

Biggest news for the day. Havent been out for a whole year yet that will be on the 20th. But exactly one year from today I go home on the 17th of June. FREAK! That's still pretty weird for me to think about. Apparently this is when the time is going to just take off and then it's over. Still lots to be accomplished though. The first year you kind of figure out what you're doing the last year especially the last six months are when you've got to get it done!

 

Training is hard! It's tiring. The tough thing is finding a good balance of taking the lead and showing how things are supposed to be done and at the same time letting your little birdie fly. Haha its mentally exhausting. It's good though. Being naturally a little control hungry I am more than happy to show a new missionary how to do missionary work the way I think it can best be done. I'll be frank as well. No matter how much you think you may know, you always know less that you think you know. But you also always know enough.

 

I seriously just feel really tired. Between the heat and the training and the missionary working I'm not sure which is the biggest factor but we're going on bikes for the next week so this may be a good humbling experience haven't been on bikes since April. 

 

In other mission news president is going for it all at once and is going to open 4 new zones this coming transfer so we can be ready to receive all the new missionaries. We don't really have enough for that many zones yet but they'll just start a little small and then he'll let the mission grow into them. But that means it will have doubled since I came out from 5 when I got here to 10 coming up. That means a freaking ton more zone leaders and district leaders and readjusting boundaries and so on and so forth. Once again the value of being Spanish and being removed from all the leadership drama is quite nice. I went on exchange with one of my zone leaders this past week and we talked about it all. He's a good hard working competent missionary. The general sentiment expressed was who is going to fill all the new positions. We've got too many lazy and confused missionaries that already are in leadership and now we've got to draw from the remains to expand the leadership pool. He used some harsher words and though it wasn't the nicest thing ever I'll admit it would be difficult to disagree. I don't know why but our mission culture is just kind of lazy and not that obedient. It's improved a lot but it's still got a ways to go. Anyways just grateful to be Spanish.

 

Anyways thank for the letter I got that everybody had signed it made my day. I hope you are all still doing well.

 

Talk to you all next week.

 

Elder Davidson