Letter #68

Shout out to Rebecca who said that my emails suck and need to be better.  Thanks for putting them on a blog mom.

Our new mission president got here on Thursday, so that was really exciting.  I guess we got 122 new ones all over the world, and ours was one of them.  I will meet him officially on Wednesday, but we got to hear him on conference call last night, and he seems pretty cool.  I felt like I should be intimidated by him, and then after I listened to him talk, I realized that he's still a n00b at this and he should be intimidated by me.  Just kidding.  But really.  So yeah, I like him so far, and it'll be great to meet him for real this week.  He's letting us wear shorts when we play sports outside for p day (the Weavers stopped letting us do that for some reason), so he's popular already.

We also got to say goodbye to our old mission president this last week.  He was pretty sad to leave us all, and he wanted to tell us all to be on our best behavior for the new Mission President and all that.  We also got a letter from the First Presidency changing a few things about the way that we teach, so that was interesting.  Nothing too wild, but we are supposed to teach the first 5 lessons before they get baptized now, instead of 1-4 before baptism and 1-5 afterwards.  Also, they want us to stay in touch with our converts for a whole year after their baptism.  Then the Weavers gave us coins (I guess it's a military tradition), and we hugged and said goodbye.

We almost got an investigator this week.  We had an appointment with this one referral from the Chimacum missionaries, and then right as we got there, they were pulling out of the driveway with a pinky promise to call us back.  They haven't.

Also, we were in charge of sharing time again this week.  The kids were a little rowdy and not that interested in family history, so it was decent, but not the best.  The leaders were all thrilled that they didn't have to do it, and told us that it really didn't matter what we did, because the primary kids just love missionaries anyway.  So they all told us we did well.  It was pretty crazy in there though.

Well, the text is way magnified on this computer, so this letter looks pretty long already.  Also, I can't think of anything else interesting to say, except the story about how I got sassy with someone on a doorstep earlier, which I usually don't do, and I don't think anyone on the other end of these letters would be impressed.  So the end.