Hi
everyone!
It's so crazy going from junior companion to senior and training in an area that I was only in for four weeks! My (very) new companion, Elder Benjamin, has been trying to adjust to the new place/climate/culture/food/language. It's hard to remember back 8 months to my arrival here, I'm trying to help him all I can. It's not that easy though, because I'm not exactly perfect - there's only one person who was, and he lived about two thousand years ago, in the meridian of time. I'm definitely relying on the Holy Ghost a ton, with training my companion and leading the area. It's really good to go back to the basics, I'm trying to help him learn the language and deal with getting a little sicker whenever he eats and with simplifying the doctrine so he can have the ideas simplified to teach rather than a script. He hasn't gained much confidence in the language, I'm trying to help him to stretch himself and learn more and not get lost and gain confidence - and he was only in the MTC 6 weeks to learn everything! This new program requires that missionaries come in to the MTC very prepared - not linguistically, but spiritually. My companion may not be able to teach all the lessons, but he knows them. and the spirit he brings with him is so much more important than anything else he could have brought to the field.
It's so crazy what happened to my trainee on the way to the Philippines though.....They got held up in LA and didn't get their baggage, and were there for three days, and finally got here and it was 2 or 3 more days before their luggage was located! He had to borrow shirts and wash some of his other stuff, but it all worked out in the end. Meanwhile, back here, I went on splits with one of our ward missionaries during friday - my companion ended up getting to the mission home on Saturday, so it worked perfect to stay with the Zone Leaders Friday night!
But anyways, now he's here and we're doing our best to bring people to Christ, while he gets used to everything and I help him with that and try to figure out how I'm supposed to train him.
anyways, I've got to go! Hope all's going well!
A representative of the Lord and a trainer of a fellowservant,
Elder Dallin Carlson
It's so crazy going from junior companion to senior and training in an area that I was only in for four weeks! My (very) new companion, Elder Benjamin, has been trying to adjust to the new place/climate/culture/food/language. It's hard to remember back 8 months to my arrival here, I'm trying to help him all I can. It's not that easy though, because I'm not exactly perfect - there's only one person who was, and he lived about two thousand years ago, in the meridian of time. I'm definitely relying on the Holy Ghost a ton, with training my companion and leading the area. It's really good to go back to the basics, I'm trying to help him learn the language and deal with getting a little sicker whenever he eats and with simplifying the doctrine so he can have the ideas simplified to teach rather than a script. He hasn't gained much confidence in the language, I'm trying to help him to stretch himself and learn more and not get lost and gain confidence - and he was only in the MTC 6 weeks to learn everything! This new program requires that missionaries come in to the MTC very prepared - not linguistically, but spiritually. My companion may not be able to teach all the lessons, but he knows them. and the spirit he brings with him is so much more important than anything else he could have brought to the field.
It's so crazy what happened to my trainee on the way to the Philippines though.....They got held up in LA and didn't get their baggage, and were there for three days, and finally got here and it was 2 or 3 more days before their luggage was located! He had to borrow shirts and wash some of his other stuff, but it all worked out in the end. Meanwhile, back here, I went on splits with one of our ward missionaries during friday - my companion ended up getting to the mission home on Saturday, so it worked perfect to stay with the Zone Leaders Friday night!
But anyways, now he's here and we're doing our best to bring people to Christ, while he gets used to everything and I help him with that and try to figure out how I'm supposed to train him.
anyways, I've got to go! Hope all's going well!
A representative of the Lord and a trainer of a fellowservant,
Elder Dallin Carlson
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