Only Two Weeks Left In MTC!

May 28, 2008

Hi Everyone,
This week has been good! I taught in Spanish again and it went really well, my companion froze up again but he did better this time at getting himself back into the swing of things! I HAVE BEEN HERE SIX WEEKS!!! can you believe that? this week was good but I have one bummer thing to report, I tweaked my neck like two weeks ago playing soccer "heading the soccer ball is not fun" and it hurt bad right away and my left hand went numb, it was just a stinger so I ignored it. and over the next two weeks my neck got more and more tense until finally last Thursday I went to the doctor cause it was spasming bad and was REALLY painful, he gave me some muscle relaxants and told me that should do the trick and had me come back to him on Tuesday "Monday was memorial day which by the way is horrible in the MTC because it is a regular day without mail!" The muscle relaxants made me way tired and just made me worthless but they made the pain better, he also had me do that shock therapy stuff for my neck where they send the pulses through it. and they heated it. It is feeling better but still pretty tense and I have not been able to play at PE until the end of the week... its miserable!!!!
Funny Story;
Part of my job is to put together the plan for sacrament, "what songs we sing, Who prays and so forth" and I was way messed up on the muscle relaxants when I put the plan together, and to make a short story shorter I BUTCHERED it. I had written down that we were going to sing "Tengo Gozo En Me Alma Hoy" 3 times in our sacrament meeting. and that the same person was giving the opening and closing prayer "MTC branches are small, but not that small". But anyways after Sunday I decided that I needed to not take the muscle relaxants anymore. I feel a lot better than I did it is just really tense, but the doctor told me to take tons of Ibuprofen, I have not even taken as much as he told me I could. But I am feeling better so you don’t need to ask me in the next 5 letters if it hurts, I will tell you if it does!

I went to the RC the other day "referral center, where people call into from commercials for free videos and whatnot" and I got this call... It was a 61 year old women from miami who told me here name was Willie Nelson, I did the whole call and managed not to laugh... EVEN WHEN SHE SAID "I am gonna beat you up... I am going to beat you up over the phone." But then at the end of the call she asked if her name surprised me, I said yes and she explained that she had been called Willie since before she had heard of the singer. Then she proceeded to tell me she was ghetto... and because she was ghetto she had some "RAW" nicknames... she proceeded to tell me one of her inappropriate nicknames and at that point I laughed, explained I had to go, and concluded that call... it was hilarious... since then I have shown many people the recording of that phone call "all the calls are recorded" and it is a unanimous decision that it was not a prank call... it was just a legitimately crazy women.

ok enough with funny stories last night was an awesome devotional. It was by Anne M. Dibb. She is president Monson's daughter and she talked about the characteristics that define her dad. It was awesome! It was one of those things where it made you do self evaluation I loved it!

Our zone is doing well and everyone is getting to bed on time and obeying the rules- which is great and the best part is I have yet to Nag anyone to do anything, the other district leaders and people have informed me that they are more obedient because they appreciate that I am not trying to boss everyone around and they don’t want me to feel like I am not doing my job. Then one kid just straight up said "You know what I have started following all of the rules for one reason, do you know that reason?"
I was like "what?"
And he said " cause I respect you and think your treating this whole thing really well, cause your still friends with everyone and not on some power trip"
I was really happy to hear that I thought it was a pretty good compliment considering the last two zone leaders have not been anyone’s favorite once they became zone leaders. It showed my little plan can work.
But anyways I am out of time, I only have thirty minutes but life is great I love you all! Keep the letters coming, I have come upon a dry spell! 2 and a half weeks left!!! NUTS!
PS Austin Hatches address?

Love Elder Stiles