Well I'll give you a breakdown of
the week. So I have another Brazilian named Elder Behrends. Awesome kid. I
picked him up from the train station on Wednesday and we began an awesome week
from that point on. For some reason I feel alot less stressed than when I was
with Elder Oliveira. May have something to do with his personality. But I'm
really enjoying serving with my new companion because I don't feel like I'm
being judged quite so much. Makes my life a lot easier.
So things are going really well
there. Being district leader isn't quite as much fun as I imagined it was going
to be. Basically means I spend ten hours calling everybody every other day...
and losing all the free time that I have in the evening :P I laughed when my
favorite zone leader Elder Carder told me "Welcome to leadership, where
you now lose all the extra free time you thought you had". I now know what
all my DL companion's previous where talking about. So its cool to be in a
leadership position, but I guess that is what the word "responsibility"
means.
So I have to keep extra tabs on
everyone and make sure everybody is working hard. Plus this is even harder for
me because my whole district is under 6 months in the mission field. So I'm the
oldest missionary in my district. Which is absolutely nuts, I'm really not that
old or experienced... so I have to keep things together here I guess. I get
some freedom from my companion, and then president loads another backpack on my
shoulders. Well, I guess God knows what he's doing to me.
Today we are planning to go back to
Costco and have more fun. This time we are bring our favorite sisters with us.
The Romford sisters always hang out with us on p-day, so we still have contact
with the opposite sex. Its not really real "contact" because you
can't flirt with them... but we still have fun. So I'm grateful to have family
that still love me. None of my friends emailed me this week :P I don't know
what happened to them, but I feel just a little bit forgotten... so thank
goodness for mom and dad. or else I wouldn't have had any emails. I'll just
have to stick this out till the end of my mission, then I'll get some
repentance post. I have some good pictures from the end of the transfer, I'll
send those to you, they are quite funny.
So yeah... I keep ripping my
trousers out here. It’s because I keep trying to do gymnastics in them and they
really don't stretch all that well :P So I've messed up 2 pairs of trousers so
far, but one of the members is fixing them for me :) So hopefully they'll be
ok. just need to avoid jumping on trampolines and stuff. Besides that, things
are pretty much the same here. Tiny flat, big city, always busy. Life is not too
bad.
So I'm surviving out here. Sounds
like Mark is having a fun time at University. The good old days. Mark is really
opposite to me. I slept over at our house like every night as much as I could.
To be frank, I don't know why I moved out. Well it was good experience for me.
Helped me get used to living on my own, especially for a mission. Makes the
transition a little bit easier. I'm glad you guys had fun at Star Valley. Makes
me just a little bit Jealous. I miss having mountains and stuff like that. I
also really miss swimming.
That is like the first thing I'm
going to do when I get off my mission: Dive into a pool. That is going to be
great. I do like Cabella's. Kinda weird to see you take photos there, because I
remember taking Autumn there last year when we started dating. It was a lot of fun.
Cabela's is huge, and a great place to entertain you for hours. You should tell
Michelle that she needs to email me :) I love having people email me because I
have an hour and a half to write to people and the only people that are
emailing me are my parents. I guess it must have been a busy week for everyone
else. So just let people know that I am out here. I still exist. Or at least I
pretend to. Anyway, I hope you guys are having a great week. I'm doing just
fine, just tend to my "garments needs" and that will be good. I love
you guys. Catch you next week.
Love,
Elder Bradley Smith
PS Here is the lyrics to the SpongeBob song about ripped pants. Here's a link to a recording. Double click.
When I ripped my pants
I thought that I had everybody on my side,
'till I went and blew it,
all sky high
and now she won't even spare a passing glance
all just because I [rip] ripped my pants.
(Whole band singing)
When big Lary came 'round just to put him down
Spongebob turned into a clown
and no girl ever wants to dance
with a fool who went and ripped his pants
(Spongebob singing)
I know I shouldn't mope around,
I shouldn't curse
but the pain feels so much worse
Cause windin up with no one is a lot less fun
then a burn from the sun
or sand in your buns....
Now I learned a lesson I won't soon forget
so listen and you won't regret
be true to yourself
don't miss your chance
and you won't end up like the fool...who...ripped...his..PAAANTS
PPS Bradley is not a fool, only energetic.
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