Busy, busy, busy

Dear Fawn,

Oh my... zone leading is very different.  I'm in a new area now and we had SOOO much to do right after transfers last week that I don't really know too much about who we are teaching and stuff like that.  It's been crazy.  But Elder LeSueur and I are excited to get back to work this week!

No, I haven't really heard anything about the weather over here.  The craziest thing I've heard lately is something about the Pope retiring or something.  That's a win for the Mormons I guess.

I got your Valentines Day package and I loved it.  Thanks so much.  Elder LeSueur quickly devoured those Sour Patch Kids.  He says "thank you" and he is really appreciative.

How exciting for Diego.  That sounds great!  One question: what is the 'BLM'?

I'm just excited to be in a new area and meeting new people and teaching people the Gospel of Jesus Christ!  The ward here is great.  Everyone is super friendly and really hilarious too.  They share my sense of humor so I think we'll really get along.

Elder LeSueur and I had to prepare the zone meeting last week and it was just crazy because we had this other meeting that we had to prepare for last week so we had minimal time to prepare our training for the other missionaries and whatnot.  Anyway, we were just exhausted but it ended up being a really spiritual and uplifting meeting and it was totally led by the Spirit because so many times while preparing we were just like "Oh yeah, we forgot to plan for that too."  Lots of work.

I read D&C 84:85 this morning and then thought back to Ammon's experience with beginning to teach King Lamoni.  I no longer think that it was a coincidence that they stood silent for the space of an hour... (Alma 18:14).  Also, it turns out that we learn in Alma 8:21,22 that Alma was a vegetarian.  Neat, huh?

Okay, well that's about it for this week.  I don't know how Gary is doing anymore, I'll find out next time I see Elder Rich.  We're in different zones now though.  There are four zones in the mission and this zone (the Knoxville zone) is the only one I've not served in before, so everything is really new to me.  Hopefully I'll have more for y'all next week.

Love
Elder Grabinger