Another week went by, and its crazy how fast time is flying. 6 months ago today, I reported to the MTC in Mexico City, starting my mission. Six months is a lot of time, a lot has changed, but it has gone by crazy fast. Including my time in the MTC, I have now gone through 6 companionships, Ive had four areas, three baptisms, thousands of lessons, contacts, and much more. The workload that we take as missionaries is pretty formidable. Right now I am "working" 75 hour workweeks, completely focused on finding and teaching people, and losing myself in the service of our Lord, Jesus Christ. Its been a life changing experience for me, and its pretty wild thinking that Ive only got 18 months left. Time goes by way too fast, and the mission is way too short.
This week was a good week. We have a lot of work cut out for us here in the area. We still don't have a branch president, which makes things challenging, but the problem is there isn't enough people paying tithing for us to become a branch. So we've been working a ton with the members, teaching them about well everything. Every single person in our branch was less active or inactive before the formation of the branch, so they really don't know or understand how to be members, run the church, stuff like that. And on top of that were working and putting just about all our time into our investigators. Right now, the person who is running the branch is a high council member from a town two hours away, so hes never there, only in Sundays. Its rough, but its so awesome. Every Sunday is super spiritual, and during the week, we work like crazy (Sunday too). Its a good deal, and we should get a branch president during this cycle or the next cycle.
I'm doing good. Our area is good. This week we had meetings with our president, short ten minute interviews one on one with him (mission president). It was really great, and i really enjoyed it. It was funny, because every time elder Avalos has interviews with the president, the president always tells him his transfers. And we always have our interviews in the first two weeks of the cycle. So the poor guy has to work the next four weeks, knowing that hes not even going to stay in the area. President told elder Avalos that Elder Avalos is going to go to chalco in these next transfers, and that Elder Chischillie is going to change too, and hes going to be a trainer. I'm pretty happy because I'm going to stay in the area. I honestly wouldn't mind staying in the area for a longggggggg time. Like months. Because honestly our area is really amazing, and I'm really happy here. There's still four weeks left in this cycle, and everything can change. Who knows whats going to go down. But that's my funny story from this week.
Other than that, it was really uneventful. I miss you guys a lot. I hope you all are safe.
Love,
Elder William Jacob Long
Sorry no photos this week, I'm currently staying with my district leader, because we have a district meeting tomorrow, and this computer in this cyber cafe isn't working well :(
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