Laundry, Writing Letters, Playing the Piano, Temple visits
Neat Story:
Hola mi familia! Here we are in the middle of week Seven! Today we should be getting our flight plans and travel itineraries to Argentina. Can you believe it?! This time in the MTC is rapidly coming to a close, but what an amazing it has and will be. I'll never forget it. We can start the countdown... 10 days and counting :) Pray for the visas to come through cuz that could delay us if they don't all get here. We have now in our zone 6 districts of elders (a total of 57! which is huge for us). We have one district (the one just older than us) that got delayed this week b/c their visas to mexico didn't come. It's been really hard for the missionaries to get visas to Mexico lately so it didn't come as a surprise but it didn't make it any easier to be super motivated and keep plugging away. They've been having 8 hours of study time b/c their teacher had to begin teaching the new district of 12 elders that we received this wednesday (also going to mexico). Fortunately, today the consule arrived and they are very hopeful to be out of here after the weekend is over. We pray for them daily. Being a zone leader with Elder Schupple has been such a great experience. I'm so impressed with his ability to just jump in and be a leader with me. I'd already been through all the leadership training and had the opportunity to be one as a district leader. But that didn't stop him :) We learn so much how to help struggling elders, how to take charge and lead meetings, counsel with the district leaders, etc. We are so blessed to have the opportunity to serve the branch. We had a great fireside this week from Elder Hinkley (President Gordan B. Hinkley's Son - A member of the 1st quorum of the seventy). He and his wife gave a great set of talks on companionship unity and supporting one another and the 9 BE's of a mission. They were very similar to his dad's Be's but were focused specifically on missionary work. It was just what I needed personally b/c I think we all need to be reminded to look for the good in our companions, pray for them daily, counsel with love in how we can improve, and always strive for perfection and complete obedience to the small and simple things. We haven't had problems, Elder Schupple and I, and for that I'm so grateful. Also Sis. Hinkley reminded us that this training to live with and work with a companion 24/7 is good training for the rest of our lives, and how true that is. I see another small part of the many reasons why the mission is the place to be! Well thanks to everyone who wrote letters this week! I look forward to hearing from you. I love to write back responses to all of you. Makes my P-day way enjoyable. Thanks for all the thoughts and prayers on me and Elder Schuppl'es behalf. We've really felt it in our teaching and our spanish. We are so blessed! I hope all of you are well and have a great week! Love you all!~Elder Jones - Bryson
