Being a Zone Leader

From NOVEMBER 22nd

This week has kind of been a blur for me. You know how I am, always needing to be organized and have everything under control. haha. Being a zone leader is tough work! Our branch presdient literally gives the zone leaders in our branch the most responsibility out of all the others in the mtc. Basically he wants us to handle all the problems ourselves, which is understandable, and then come to him only when we need the authourity of the branch presidency. The last zone leaders didn't do a whole lot and our branch presidency wants us to be the ones to start cracking down on things. so that is what this week has been about, mostly--just caring and loving the other elders in our zone, trying to crack down on obedience, and introducing the "newbies" to life in the mtc. haha. The beginning of the week was actually more hectic because there were alot of things to be resolved, and most of the elders had a hard time accepting change. As we applied the examples of Christ-like leadership though, things began to change, and by the end of the week, I felt pretty good about things. :)

Yesterday was pretty great, too. it was just a great day overall. :)The newbies are pretty great, and it is fun to watch them come in and remember what it was like for us just a few weeks ago (at least it feels like just a few weeks). One of them has even already had a trip to the ER! hahah. I feel like Tagolog is coming fairly well and so is teaching the lessons.

But this week looks like we are going to have a ton of Apostles come in. I don't know what Seth's mtc Thanksgiving experience was like, but rumor has it that Elder Holland comes to the mtc and just hangs out here every Thanksgiving! Could be rumor, though, but it sounds like we are going to be well taken care of on Thursday and have an awesome service project and program and most importantly FEAST. :) I will miss watching the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade and making snicker salad, but I know I'm where I need to be and I'll get to do it in a couple years. :)Oh yeah! and don't tell me how Harry Potter was. unless you just say something like "it was completely mindblowing" and that's it hahaha. i'll just look forward to when I get back and watch both parts at the same time. :)

We also decided as a district to have a completely "bawal ingles" (forbidden english) day the day before Thanksgiving. Yup. we're calling it an English fast. hahaha. we'll see how it goes and if we can really do it! I can tell that on Thanksgiving, everyone is going to say that they are thankful for English. hahaha. Maligayang Pagpapasalamat! (Happy Thanksgiving!)