Sup Gorditos, hope your Valentine's Day was one for the books.
Lemme give
you the quick rundown.
Highlights
of the week:
- There is a
member who has a son that works at Dunkin donuts and on Sunday she gave us
the 6 dozen donuts worth of leftovers that he got from the night
before.
Lowlights of
the week:
- Shot Calls came this week. Elder Moss is outie five thoutie. My new companion is going to be Elder Haycock from Arizona. Never talked to him before, but he seems cool. Even though the change was anticipated it still stinks to have to chuck up the deuce to this companionship. All throughout high school I never talked to Elder Moss. I never even really knew he existed. Now in New York of all places we have become good friends. It makes me wonder how many friendships I missed out on if I only would have broken the stereotypes in high school and tried to make friends with more people. I love Elder Moss. This transfer has flown by and I'm sad to see him go.
Friday we
had a Training meeting for this next transfers trainers. As always Elder Moss
and I got to go because we have the hookups, and by hookups I mean we are work horses and President Morgan wants us there to help out with it. We walked in
that morning before the meeting started to set up and the tile in the foyer of the church was dusted white from the salt that had been used to thaw the
ice outside. President Morgan is very particular about how things look and
are presented. He wasn't going to put up with this!
With just ten minutes
to go before people started arriving he had us and the assistants grab mops
and mop the floor. To dry it in time he had us get heaps of paper towels,
strap them to our feet and shuffle around the floor like we were ice skating.
The whole time we were doing this I couldn't stop laughing because who does
that? Haha we looked ridiculous, especially President Morgan. I have to say
that President Morgan is the Michele Kwan of paper towel skating.
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The
meeting was really good. Honestly, I think I like the Trainers meeting more
than I like the Mission Leadership Counsel meetings or any other meeting we
do. The Trainers meeting gets me more excited about doing missionary work
than just about anything else. At the beginning of the meeting President
Morgan has each person stand and say something that they have learned/appreciated
from their trainer.
Every time I talk about my trainer in this way I about
cry. There aren't too many people that have helped me more out here than my
trainer Elder Reynolds. Whenever I am asked what I appreciated most about
my trainer I say the same thing every time. I am grateful for how he showed
me he loved me. Elder Reynolds went through a lot of stress when he was
training me. Even when his father died and he was worried about his mom
back home he always gave me the attention and focus that I needed to thrive
as a new missionary. Because of his example of how to show love I have
become a better person. Elder Reynolds is going home this week. The coolest
part of it all is that I will get to be the one to drop him off at the
airport. He was there with me when I first started my mission and now I
have the opportunity to be with him when he ends his. Cheers to good
trainers!!
Elder Moss
and I hold many titles within the mission. We are soccer moms,
mailmen, work horses, but sometimes we are (un)professional movers. We have had
multiple moves to do around the mission this last week, two of them fell on
the same day. After we had spent the whole day moving stuff out of
apartments, Elder Moss and I came home and we were pooped. We were far to
lazy to make anything for dinner and so we decided to make a Micky D's run.
Plus McDonald's has Shamrock shakes now, so like, why not?
We were at
McDonald's eating our sin when a man across the aisle made a comment about
something. I can't even remember what it was. We started having small
conversation with him. He told us how a couple guys from his church were
going to be holding a little meeting/bible study at McDonald's and he was
waiting for the guys from the church to come. We kept talking to the guy
and as a few minutes pass a guy walks in and then another one and then
another. 4 guys in all, as they were getting ready to start their meeting
thang one of the guys invited Elder Moss and I to stay. Of course we
stayed. Turns out the original guy that was there runs a non denominational
ministry and they were having the equivalent of a bishopric meeting.
The
first part would have been boring if I wasn't interested in how these guys
ran their meetings because they were just talking about upcoming things
happening in the church. Then at the end there was a guy that gave a
spiritual message about how we need to keep our bodies clean so we can be
in tune with the spirit. He basically taught the word of wisdom to us.
Elder Moss and I threw in our two cents, we talked a little Jesus, read a
little Bible, you know the good stuff. Two of the men there actually had
copies of the Book of Mormon back at home, the original guy that we started
talking to has served missions too! He served three, one year missions when
he was our age. He told us some of his mission stories from when he served
in Minnesota. Crazy stuff man. We had to leave before the meeting was over
but we thanked them for letting us attend the meeting. It was so good to
come across good Christian people that are striving to actually LIVE what
they believe. Sometimes I start to lose faith in humanity but experiences
like this help keep that lil flame alive!
Have a
great week you lovely Deserets!
Elder
Tyler J Johanson
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