I've been over my patriarchal blessing I still cant believe what's expected of me and I know it's going to take a lot of work to get there. I can't have anything holding me back. Not in the least degree.
It was super sad leaving Elder Johnson and my new comp is Elder Stetler from Layton. He is way solid but we didn't get off to a great start the first couple of days (he reminds me of a combination of Seth and me 2 years ago....sooo yaaa) but we are way solid now. I tried to jump into this area as a know-it-all elder but it didn't work out so well. I still have to build up a pool of experience for all the work Ii need to do although I do have complete faith if the situation calls for me.
We are teaching a pastor from the church of Christ who is way solid. He has the triple already so the last time we were there we talked about the gospel in the days of Adam and how baptism was also instituted before Christ. Although the focus always needs to be on the big picture and not necessarily just the small issues.
Lessons are not as frequent here - we have about 5 a week compared to Rockwall's 20 (although they actually split mine and Johnson's last area and now he is a zone leader).
It was way heartbreaking to leave Rockwall still. After developing those way good relationships with the people I got to teach and be a part of their life it is crazy that they just move us so far away. Good news is that they set more baptismal dates for some awesome people we were teaching. Hopefully someday they will be willing to transfer me back to Rockwall although now it is called the 'richardson east' zone.
Like I said earlier, this week has been weird just because it feels like I am starting a completely different mission in a new world. I guess it should be like playing with legos and the fun part is to start from scratch and build up.
I am now officially riding my bike and i really do not like biking as of late! my entire body is sore but that's the news from that. Now my motivation to develop even stronger relationships with the ward for rides has jumped to a new peak. Why is it that whenever and whatever direction we are biking in there is a head wind the is consistently laughing in my face? Oh well, thine afflictions shall be but a small moment...
We tracted a super rich neighborhood yesterday in which we met the 3rd highest selling romance novelist, a sports athlete agent for the Dallas area, and the CEO of Cadbury (sorry, he didn't take the Gospel). It's so sad when those doors slam in the face, we don't disagree that they all will be going to some degree of heaven but the full potential of the individual will never be tapped. I officially really do hate tracting...
Dan just sent me a way solid letter though about tracting the HELL out of my area so the work must continue. Hopefully I can return some more promising results soon.
We had stake conference and our mission president spoke, the man is unbelievable. He gets invited to all these interfaith meetings with upwards of 300 people and by the end they all are asking for the Book of Mormon. I don't want to brown nose in anyway but I need to figure out how to be like that! So sweet.
love your son,
Elder Mark
New address:
2845 Starshine Drive
Little Elm, TX 75068
(I'm pretty sure I'll be here for at least a few months)
my phone number is... just kidding
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