Hey Everyone!!!
Yeah, so sorry that I wasn't able to email you on Monday. If anything happens where
you don't get an email on a Monday, just wait til Wednesday and you will get one!
:D
So, this week something kind of sad happened. One of
the missionaries that I served around a lot in Maryvale and Tempe and was my second district leader went home. He was also training a brand new missionary named Elder
Carter, so we got a call on Wednesday telling us that both Elder
Babcock and I are going to be training Elder Carter at the same time that we are
Zone Leaders! That is super cool and all of us get along super well! Elder Carter
is from Louisiana and has a sweet accent, too, so that makes it even better!
:)
Being a Zone Leader is cool and all, but it is a little bit different for
sure. Rather than just having all of the time in the world to go out and worry
and work in your own area, it seems that we are always out and about helping the
other missionaries out with the things that they need at the time. It is a
little bit frustrating dealing with some of the missionaries problems, but I
guess it is a really cool learning experience for me! One thing that I am
working with is having the same amount of patience with people that I am always
around as I have with people that I am just meeting. That is something I want
to get better at before I get home next year, seeing as though it is something
that I really struggled with. I always seemed to be super patient at work and
with my friends, or at school, but then when I came home I was super frustrated
and was super impatient with you guys and everyone in the house. But I am
getting better at it! :D
One thing that happened this week that was super cool is that since I am
a zone leader we had a really cool Mission Leadership Training Meeting this last
Saturday! Elder Robins from the Quorum of the Seventy came down here and talked with
us a lot about some traits that will make us better husbands and wives! It was
really cool because some of the things that he really focused on about
missionary work directly relates to how I am going to be treating my wife in the
future. He talked a lot about missionaries that have a hard time getting a long
with their companions. He said that he had once talked to a missionary that was
having a hard time getting along with all 4 of his companions that he has had on
his mission, he told him "If you cannot learn to get along with others, DIVORCE
is in your future." I thought that was super powerful, because there is so much
divorce going through the world right now and I don't ever want that to come
into my home when I get older. I am going to continue to do my very best to make
all of my companions my BEST FRIENDS! I know that I will be able to have a more
successful mission as I really focus on that as well as the fundamentals of
Preach My Gospel!
Well, I can't wait to hear from you again next
week! I am going to be doing a training with my companion in front of 4
other Zones and a General Authority this Thursday so be sure to keep me in your
prayers that it will go well! :)
Love,
Elder Brandon Wallentine
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