June 25th, 2018 Letter #33

We work with half the time of regular missionaries and the assistants work with less so we share investigators. We're basically one big companionship because when they're here we go on lots of splits. They're leaving for the next 2 weeks though so we'll take care of the area for now. So yes, we're with Elizabeth again. We didn't have a district class this week because we had a big meeting between the secretaries, assistants, president, sister training leaders, and zone leaders that took an entire day. We also had a zone class, interviews with the president, and the Zone conference between Xalapa and Macuilteptl (the other zone in Xalapa). So there frankly wasn't time. The zone class is always week two because they teach the stuff we learned in the big meeting of leaders. District classes are every week except that one, but we meet briefly as a zone before going to the class. We also always have a leaders meeting before the zone gets together. If that all made sense I'm surprised, but it's hard to explain without living it or having a whiteboard to show you. 

In the district the biggest problem isn't the missionaries, but rather that we had very little to work with at the start of the change. Almost all the missionaries in my district are new to their area and there weren't many investigators at the beginning of the change, but we're doing a good job of finding people and the missionaries are motivated so I'm not too worried. We'll see results soon enough. 

Elder Breinholt and I get along well. We joke a lot, which is good because we have a stressful workload. We'll make a good little team. He doesn't know if he's related to the musician, but he says he likes to think so.

My favorite part of the week was also my least favorite: all the meetings. It took forever so we couldn't work much, but I learned a lot and I feel more ready for the change. I like being in Los Lagos for the ward, being able to work with the assistants again, and because I have a lot more ideas for what we can do than I did in Natura 2. 

Love Elder Finlinson

 Zone Conference