Hey
Guys!
It's been a very
interesting week. I spent most of it in the capital with my good friends the
Assistants. The new assistant as of this change is Elder Carter, a guy from my
group and maybe one of my best friends in the mission, so it was great to go up
and have divisions with the assistants.
In the concilio, they
changed the mission standard completely! Now we have a number for every single
key indicator. That's good, because it helps us focus our efforts a lot more on
the members and how we can help them instead of only finding and working
through our own efforts. Other than that, we've been working on developing a better
relationship with a rowdy district leader, and my fake tooth fell out.
For those of you who
remember, when I was about 11 (I think) I was running in the Lehi pool, and I
slipped and fell. I large piece of one of my teeth broke off, but i didn't feel
anything. I got back up, and thought, "That's why they don’t want us to
run" so I walked a little slower. Then the lifeguard stopped me and shouted
something to me (I don’t remember what). For some reason, I looked down, and
saw myself dripping with blood. SO they rushed me to my mom, who got me rushed
to a dentist, who I'm pretty sure was related to us in some way or other. The
next thing I remember was that they found the other piece of my tooth, put it
in milk to keep it alive and then rushed me to the dentist to fix it up. I was
scared, but they got the fake tooth put in without a problem.
#GOING 8 YEARS INTO
THE FUTURE
I was with my companion
taking dats from the zone and eating a baleada. (That’s a classic Hondureñan
food, basically eggs, beans and cream in a handmade flour tortilla) The
tortilla was a little stale, so I had to bite into it a little harder than
normal. As I ate my baleada, I realized that the front of my mouth felt a
little strange. Very quickly, I realized that one of my teeth had disappeared.
:O So I pull the other piece of the tooth out of my mouth and shout to my
companion, "Hey, my tooth fell out!" He looks at me, sees my smile,
and just starts laughing. I go to put my tooth in milk again, but it slips out
of my hand.
Time slows down.
I see my tooth fall to
the tile floor very slowly, and before I can reach out to grab it, it hits the
floor and shatters into a bazillion tiny little pieces.
Needless to say, I was
pretty frustrated.
I had to lead the zone
meeting the next morning, and I did it without a tooth. The funny thing is that
all the elders noticed really fast that I had lost one of my teeth, but the
hermanas didn’t realize until AFTER we had finished the zone meeting.
This morning, we got a
provisionary replacement, while I'm waiting for the next change. President
basically assured me that when February rolls around, I'll be heading into the
capital.
That was my week.
Did you guys set your
New Years resolutions?
My New Years
resolution is a scripture. Leviticus 11:44 says: "For I am the Lord thy
God: therefore sanctify yourselves, for ye shall be holy, even as I am
holy;" I don’t have too much time unit I’m back in the states, but I'm
going to make my last months the holiest and most sacred months of all my
mission.
Love you guys!
--
Elder Jeffrey Reed
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