Family,
Oh what a week. It was very long. Well I am now 20 years old. I got three packages from you guys including the FULHAM jersey. It is the sweetest jersey I have ever seen. However, it is a little tight around the chest so I have made the goal to fill it out right by the time I get home. But it is way sweet. The shirt you guys sent will work for when i wear a sweater or my jacket but it is WAY too big. All the candy and peanut butter is great though. I also got tons of letters from Sarah and her Family, Dantrell, and Jared. It was a good birthday.
Thursday, we found a family of 8 people. When we finished teaching them, they offered us hot dogs. The easiest way to gain confidence with investigators is to eat their food. So we ate these two giant hot dogs with everything on them. I was up all night barfing my guts out. It was the first time I have gotten sick on the mission. But by the next day, I was fine.
Saturday, we helped paint this family’s house… the family that we recently found. I remembered how much I suck at painting. My companion and I finished one room in the time the mom finished 2 by herself. We decided to wash the floors instead and we did a much better job at that.
That whole family came to church Sunday, so we finally had full investigators at church. It was great. We will see what we can do to help them progress. Anyways, my companion… Sunday we had companionship inventory. He told me everything he doesn’t like about me and everything I need to change. Then, he told me everything he wants me to tell the other elders to change. He then asked me if there was anything I wanted him to change. Then he numbered off about 15 things that he wouldn’t change no matter what. I was so shocked I didn’t know what to say. I didn’t say anything. I was patient and waited until the other elders got home… and then did what my companion wanted me to do. I told one of the elders what my companion wanted him to change. He stormed out of the room to go rip my companion is half. They argued for a long time while I talked to the other elder in our house. He and I are a lot alike. Elder Doyle is his name. We really don’t care what other people do; if something bugs us, we just brush it off and move on. But my companion wants to change everyone to fulfill his needs. But he isn’t willing to change anything in himself. I still have no idea how to handle this. I think I will just tell the zone leaders to change him. Because he is driving us insane. We are trying to be Christ-like and not do anything dumb, because you can imagine what three 20 year old boys from the united states would normally do to someone like this if we were not missionaries.
Anyways, it is a great lesson on patience...
Faith is super important. I learned that this week. You can’t give up or ever get down on yourself.
Love,
Elder McRae
Oh what a week. It was very long. Well I am now 20 years old. I got three packages from you guys including the FULHAM jersey. It is the sweetest jersey I have ever seen. However, it is a little tight around the chest so I have made the goal to fill it out right by the time I get home. But it is way sweet. The shirt you guys sent will work for when i wear a sweater or my jacket but it is WAY too big. All the candy and peanut butter is great though. I also got tons of letters from Sarah and her Family, Dantrell, and Jared. It was a good birthday.
Thursday, we found a family of 8 people. When we finished teaching them, they offered us hot dogs. The easiest way to gain confidence with investigators is to eat their food. So we ate these two giant hot dogs with everything on them. I was up all night barfing my guts out. It was the first time I have gotten sick on the mission. But by the next day, I was fine.
Saturday, we helped paint this family’s house… the family that we recently found. I remembered how much I suck at painting. My companion and I finished one room in the time the mom finished 2 by herself. We decided to wash the floors instead and we did a much better job at that.
That whole family came to church Sunday, so we finally had full investigators at church. It was great. We will see what we can do to help them progress. Anyways, my companion… Sunday we had companionship inventory. He told me everything he doesn’t like about me and everything I need to change. Then, he told me everything he wants me to tell the other elders to change. He then asked me if there was anything I wanted him to change. Then he numbered off about 15 things that he wouldn’t change no matter what. I was so shocked I didn’t know what to say. I didn’t say anything. I was patient and waited until the other elders got home… and then did what my companion wanted me to do. I told one of the elders what my companion wanted him to change. He stormed out of the room to go rip my companion is half. They argued for a long time while I talked to the other elder in our house. He and I are a lot alike. Elder Doyle is his name. We really don’t care what other people do; if something bugs us, we just brush it off and move on. But my companion wants to change everyone to fulfill his needs. But he isn’t willing to change anything in himself. I still have no idea how to handle this. I think I will just tell the zone leaders to change him. Because he is driving us insane. We are trying to be Christ-like and not do anything dumb, because you can imagine what three 20 year old boys from the united states would normally do to someone like this if we were not missionaries.
Anyways, it is a great lesson on patience...
Faith is super important. I learned that this week. You can’t give up or ever get down on yourself.
Love,
Elder McRae
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