Hope everyone's week was good. My week was decent enough. Elder Vanva and I have set up a little more trust with the members of the ward and hopefully will be able to get more effective work done in the area. I have had the opportunity to meet a lot of people and work with a lot of missionaries over the last 6 months. I am pretty sure I am leaving this transfer. Quite a bit more sure than I was last time. Its sad to say a lot of goodbyes but I will get the opportunity to serve around new people and get another new beginning. Either way, Weymouth is a good ward. The work is hard here but I have learned a lot about myself and a lot about becoming a better person. This last week I have thought a lot about who I am as a district leader and who I am as a companion. I hope to live up to people's expectations of me and I hope to be the best I can be. I had a lot of self reflection while I was sitting around trying to overcome sickness and while my companion was trying to overcome sickness as well. The whole district got sick this week and it was pretty bad. It hit me the worst which makes me think my immune system probably isn't as strong as it should be. But I am doing much better now.
My story for this week is simple and not super spiritual. It's just about the last few p-days. One of my zone leaders, Elder Rollins, is from Arizona, more specifically Gilbert. He lives just down the road and him and I get along really well. the last few p-days him and I have gone on random adventures that include getting from point A to point B without getting too wet. As missionaries, we cannot swim but we went to a beach a couple weeks ago and a waterfall this week. So we decided that for fun, we would take on mission impossible tasks and make it out to small islands without breaking rules. It was hard not to just jump in the water and swim to it but we managed to take probably the hardest road possible and barefoot. We probably took about an hour for the tasks we undertook and it probably could've taken 5 minutes if we just jumped in the water. The point of the story is that sometimes in missionary work, we have to take the hard path for some reason. Whether its for the sake of obedience or because sometimes we just have to make hard decisions, we still just have to take the hard path. The easy way would seem better and quite a bit more simple, but nothing is learned and no progress is made. SO I guess through these silly and arguably useless pursuits, I learned a lesson that I know can be applied to many situations.
Anyway, I hope everyone's week is good!
Arohanui,
Elder Green
