Hey mom, how are you? It is good to
hear from you. I have missed you a lot this last week as well as dad and Olivia
and everyone else. Ok so I will just tell you right now that Elder A and I
did a lot of things this p-day so I don’t know if I will have any time to reply
to anyone else. So I apologize to everyone that I didn’t reply to and I will
try harder to get back to them next week! I promise.
They are going to
build a Cabela’s in Ammon!!!!!!!!!!???????!!!!!! wwwwooooHHHHHOOOOOOOO!!!! That
is awesome! Ha-ha I think that Sportsmans might be looking downhill. But that
is exciting news! Now we can just get free stuff all the time from there! ;) ha-ha
1. Ok this week. I think I might
just kind of go off and talk about stuff and if it doesn’t make sense I am
sorry but I just kind of need to let out some steam and tension. So I will
start with Monday. It was really fun and we climbed a hill and took some legit
pics. I will get some sent to you. Tuesday there were changes but nothing
happened with me, Elder A, and our apartment. It is still just us two but
I prefer it that way, a lot easier to keep the house clean. I was walking that
day and we stopped in front of a guy to contact him and I put my hand out to
shake hands and he just looked at me like I was an animal or something. I
talked to him and he didn’t say anything
and finally he just said he wanted to
continue walking so we said goodbye and he was out! Ha-ha kind of funny. On Wednesday,
in the morning our zone leaders called me and said that I had to be in a church
building early to have a leadership meeting and that I also needed a class
prepared to give to my district. So I stressed over that big time! I knelt down
to pray and the story of Ammon came to me and so I just talked about that in
the district class and I turned out pretty well. Also our leaders told us that
as DLs we need to have the goal of finding 8 new investigators each week and
let me tell you the most I have found in my mission in a week is 7. I was
willing to try my hardest and give it all, but in the end of the week we only
had one. I am not trying to attract attention but I even fasted on Wednesday to
find new people but it just didn’t happen. Sometimes I just feel so run down
and even depressed with how things are going. I see all the success that my
friends in the mission are having and I just wonder why I can’t have that?! :/ It weighs me down... I try to get better and better but the harder that I
try it seems like the work just gets harder and harder and more impossible... I
don’t know.... it is just SO HARD! Thursday not much happened but what did
happen is we had correlation with the ward mission leader. He got home from his
mission about three or four years ago so he is "still a missionary". Last Sunday he told us he could go and work with us on
Tuesday and so did our bishop. On Tuesday it was more convenient for us to call
the bishop. So we did. In the end the plan fell through. On Friday
that day we found three new less active people and so we just basically were
with them the whole day. Then at night time we went to go and play soccer. It
was fun and I played pretty well! ;) Saturday we tried to do English classes
but only two people showed up. We were coordinating it with a sister from the
ward but that didn't work out... Sunday we went to church and had a
pretty good day there. I was able to take the numbers that the sisters from my
district got this last week and that was kind of cool I guess. But overall the
only person that we had any luck with as an investigator this last week was Sergio.
He read the pamphlet we gave him but when we were talking about the first vision
he was falling asleep. He said he was just putting himself in the moment. Ha-ha
funny guy and the new investigator we got hardly shows interest in the church but
we will see how that goes. We have a less active sister that is getting ready
to get a calling this next week or two! It has been great to see her
progress!
2. The worst part is that we are just
struggling, I am struggling; this is hard. Sometimes I don’t know if I have got
it in me to plug out 17 more months. But I did hit the 7 mark today! And while
it is on my mind they do celebrate the 14 but it isn’t that big here. The best
part is that our house is clean and I got a package that you sent on the 31 of January!
The Valentine’s Day one didn’t show up... yet... I don’t know if it will. When
did you send it? I also got a couple letters today and one with a letter from Randy.
That was fun to read them!
3. We are making brownies for Fiorella
and there is a sister in the ward named Liliana that wants to make doughnuts with
us. Thanks for sending those recipes to me! =) I appreciate it.
4. As a District Leader, I have to
prepare a class for my district on Wednesdays, call them on Sundays to see how
many people went to church and things like that, and also I just have to be a
good example and a good leader. That is about it! But it adds a lot more stress.
Well that is about it this week. I
am sorry that I don’t really have a spiritual thought either.... I think about Isaiah
55: 8-9 with the hard times I am going through but still, it is just soo hard. I
hope that we can see some fruits of our labors soon. Oh and my foot just keeps
bothering me so I will see if I can get a blessing and I am also going to talk
to sister Jett and see if I can get an appointment. I will open that package
you sent but I will snap some pics too!! I felt like there is a liquid in there
and I hope it is named Mountain Dew! =) ha-ha but that is it. Thanks for always
being here for me and helping me out. I am sorry I am kind of down but that is
how things go sometimes. We will see how things are next week. I love you guys
more than I can say. I hope that you know that and I always keep you in my
prayers and I wish the best for you! Love you guys,
Love, Elder Teg Hall
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