[from February 5, 2018]
Everything is going really well here. changes went good. there weren`t any changes to my companionship, which was good. i really like my comp, and i think another change with him will be good. we have lots of progressing investigators here, but nobody is quite ready for baptism yet. lots of hard work, we have several families that need to be married and those youth are still struggling with addictions. this week i had the opportunity to go on divisions with our new zl. it was a good day, and we found a couple of really promising people. I`m glad I get to stay in this area a little longer. I would have felt really sad leaving this area without seeing too many of the fruits of our work. Besides, I like air conditioning so much. Last night there wasn`t light so we didn`t get to appreciate it so much, but when it`s on it is heavenly. i think this will be my last change in the area. i doubt i`ll be here another change. i want to leave it in a really good state before i leave. i wouldn`t have felt very good leaving in this change. it is a kind of hard are to be honest. i think president wants to change me before too long. i`m not sure what will happen though. we`ll have to see.
i want to finish the mission strong, six months is still a good amount of time. i want to leave this area really nice. one thing that we finally achieved this week is we filled our dinner schedual. we`d been having to buy dinner twice a week, but a couple families invited us this week, so we`re a lot fuller. Today actually we got invited by a sister who gave us so much food! i think i gained a few pounds. she gave us a whole ton of soda too. i don`t know if i`ve said this before but here there are 3 liter bottles of coke, and 2 liter bottles look so small to me now. between the two of us we drank the entire three liters of coke! i am so stinking full, and my companion wants to run tonight... i think i`m gonna die haha. there are some really good members here and they are all happy to have the missionaries back in this area. People are really excited that we are back. It`s been a while since there were missionaries in this part.
Yeah we had a realy good visit with William and Wilson last week. They still have problems though. It makes me really sad to see how someone with the same age as me has so many problems with drugs and alcohol. These ward members are making a huge difference, it was hard for me and my companion to relate, neither of us have ever had any kind of drug problems, but it was a huge help to have that ward member come with us. We found out too in our last visit with William (Wilson wasn`t there last time) that Brother Mayen is checking up on them every day to see how things are going. Really cool, they still aren`t ready to be baptized yet, but it`s awesome to be getting this kind of help. I`m teaching a guy right now who speaks perfect english, and it`s really weird. Praying in english is also kind of weird for me to do.
Church is really good here. We go to sacrement meeting like everybody else and then the second hour there is a class with just us and the investigators. SOmetimes we teach the class and sometimes a member teaches the class. Sometimes when a teacher doesn`t come for a different class they ask us to teach. One time we had to teach primary. It was really crazy. There are some nutso kids haha.
Once again, I love you guys and have a great week!
-Elder Stoddard
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