Hi everyone!
Transfer Calls came with a surprise this week - I'm going to be a District leader here in Toledo! For those who haven't served missions before, the mission areas are well organized with a number of zones inside a mission, and a number of districts inside each zone. These areas, of course, are led by leaders, and I'll be leading about 13 or so here in this district. The transfers are six weeks each, and after each there is changes in who's assigned where. My companion, Elder Gaerlan from Davao, will be transferred to open an area while training (I guess he might have been prepared by his experience here) and I'm going to be finishing up the training of Elder Painchoud (I was told it was pronounced Pen-show - don't tell him this, but French people don't know how to spell or sound stuff out :P ) I always thought of being a District Leader and training at the same time was something for Zone Leaders stepping down! But I know that the Lord has prepared a way for me to accomplish this thing which he has commanded me(1Nephi 3:7) because I've felt the spirit preparing and teaching me for this position, especially in the last few weeks.
Another thing I've been thinking about is extending my mission, even if for only a transfer or two. I've had a desire to do that for pretty much my whole life - I always wondered why it got shortened to 2 years, and I specifically remember when I saw "Other Side of Heaven", I remember hoping that something like that would happen with my mission. The reason it's been a bit more on my mind lately is that I found out that the date for going home has been moved to late April, and I really want to extend. I'm not sure if this desire is just me or the spirit, I'm not sure how to draw the line between those two yet. I feel that it would be a lot better to spend that transfer serving the Lord here in the mission.
I've got so many things running through my head right now that I need to find about and plan now that I'm about to be the District Leader here - I'm going to have to use that to do list in the back of my planner for all the things that need to be done and planned. I want to be as organized and clear as possible with planning things, and I want to do everything the way it's supposed to be done... I know I can't do it perfect, but I'm still just gonna do my best and leave the rest up to the Lord.
I'll write more next week with some more information on how Toledo District is doing!
A fellow-servant of the Lord,
~Elder Dallin Carlson
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