Hello Familia,
These past few days have been rather intense. Elder Sapaden and I are
very different individuals, haha. The good thing though is that I can
relate to a lot of the emotions he is going through right now at the
beginning of the mission. I feel bad for him sometimes because out of
all the trainers available he got yours truly, but I am glad that I am
able to relate to him and help him. It is also a good thing that he
got me because, although a body builder, his body is not well
acquainted with cardio. One of my weaknesses throughout my mission is
that I have one of the slowest walking paces in the mission, but I
have apparently brought Elder Sapaden to his limit. I can only imagine
the pain he would be in if he had received any of the other trainers.
Life is pretty good right now. Our flat is absolutely marvelous. It's
super clean, which I absolutely love. Right before Elder Smith left we
also rearranged the flat and now it is a lot more open and inviting. I
love walking into that place. Currently the work here is stagnant. We
have loads of people that want to be baptized, but that have to get
married first. We have four different couples in that situation right
now. So we continue to search.
There are two interesting things that will happen this transfer. One,
is that President Preston will actually attend one of my district
meetings and then he will work with us afterward. That should be way
fun. The other one, is that I will have another assistant exchange,
which means my father (elder Kersey) will either work with his son
(me) or his grandson (elder Sapaden) before he leaves mid-August. That
should be good. I also might learn how to play cricket this transfer,
woo!
So we are pressing forward. I hope that everyone back home is doing
well and that the summer is going great. Have fun at the beach and I
will speak to you all soon.
love,
Elder Misbach
Saturday, July 23, 2011
July 14, 2011
Hello Family!
The reason why I have practically no time today is because I am a
TRAINER!!! Woo! (Or in mission terms, I'm a "father"). Things are very
very stressful right now. I'm serving with Elder Sapaden from London.
He has grown up in London his whole life, but both of his parents are
Filipino and so he doesn't look like he is from England at all. He
also has a very weird accent which is very similar to American. He is
very good at piano. He has recorded a few albums and has been playing
the piano in his ward since he was 12. He also really likes to lift
weights and actually brought a weight set with him on his mission,
haha. He is very upbeat, and things are going well.
When I became a district leader I was very stressed. I thought that
would be the most stressed I would be on my mission. I was wrong. This
is intense. Everything I do will affect Elder Sapaden for the rest of
his mission, and possibly his life. This is hefty stuff. I'm loving it
right now though. I know it will be tough for a while, but training is
supposed to be the best experience you have on your mission, so I'm
excited.
I hope that they were able to send the picture of him and I yesterday
at Transfers. We are a good match. It will be a transfer of miracles.
Well I love you all and I hope that everyone is doing well. I will be
able to send better emails on Monday. I'm about to go train on how to
Weekly Plan. good stuff.
Talk to you Monday!
Elder Misbach
The reason why I have practically no time today is because I am a
TRAINER!!! Woo! (Or in mission terms, I'm a "father"). Things are very
very stressful right now. I'm serving with Elder Sapaden from London.
He has grown up in London his whole life, but both of his parents are
Filipino and so he doesn't look like he is from England at all. He
also has a very weird accent which is very similar to American. He is
very good at piano. He has recorded a few albums and has been playing
the piano in his ward since he was 12. He also really likes to lift
weights and actually brought a weight set with him on his mission,
haha. He is very upbeat, and things are going well.
When I became a district leader I was very stressed. I thought that
would be the most stressed I would be on my mission. I was wrong. This
is intense. Everything I do will affect Elder Sapaden for the rest of
his mission, and possibly his life. This is hefty stuff. I'm loving it
right now though. I know it will be tough for a while, but training is
supposed to be the best experience you have on your mission, so I'm
excited.
I hope that they were able to send the picture of him and I yesterday
at Transfers. We are a good match. It will be a transfer of miracles.
Well I love you all and I hope that everyone is doing well. I will be
able to send better emails on Monday. I'm about to go train on how to
Weekly Plan. good stuff.
Talk to you Monday!
Elder Misbach
Monday, July 4, 2011
Hello Family,
Things this past week have been great. Elder Smith and I are still
working hard and loving the work. We had a new investigator come to
church for the first time and he loved it. His name is Alan Mcgowan.
Good Stuff.
We officially have a new Mission President. We haven't had anything
change yet. We get to meet him as a mission tomorrow and Wednesday.
There was a mission home fireside yesterday though and the Middleton
elders went to it. They told me that President Preston is a VERY
different mission president, but in a good way. I'm pretty excited.
Other than that I've just been talking to the same old crazy, but
great people. Nothing too overly spectacular to report this week. I
love the 4th of July. God bless America!! Elder Smith and I will be
getting some McDonald's shakes to celebrate and watching church movies
at the chapel. This will probably be our last P-day together. Sad
stuff. One, kind of, interesting thing that we did was clean the oven
last night. We noticed last transfer that our oven was just absolutely
horrible, and that what we thought couldn't come off, really could
come off with enough effort. So we bought some heavy duty oven cleaner
about 5 weeks ago and were able to use it for the fist time last
night. It was intense. The directions make it seem like any
unauthorized contact with this stuff is an instant death. It was quite
powerful and an interesting experience to say the least. it got the
job done though. I love clean things.
Well, the gospel is true and life is good. I hope that everyone back
home is doing great and making good decisions. Talk to you soon!
love,
Elder Misbach
Things this past week have been great. Elder Smith and I are still
working hard and loving the work. We had a new investigator come to
church for the first time and he loved it. His name is Alan Mcgowan.
Good Stuff.
We officially have a new Mission President. We haven't had anything
change yet. We get to meet him as a mission tomorrow and Wednesday.
There was a mission home fireside yesterday though and the Middleton
elders went to it. They told me that President Preston is a VERY
different mission president, but in a good way. I'm pretty excited.
Other than that I've just been talking to the same old crazy, but
great people. Nothing too overly spectacular to report this week. I
love the 4th of July. God bless America!! Elder Smith and I will be
getting some McDonald's shakes to celebrate and watching church movies
at the chapel. This will probably be our last P-day together. Sad
stuff. One, kind of, interesting thing that we did was clean the oven
last night. We noticed last transfer that our oven was just absolutely
horrible, and that what we thought couldn't come off, really could
come off with enough effort. So we bought some heavy duty oven cleaner
about 5 weeks ago and were able to use it for the fist time last
night. It was intense. The directions make it seem like any
unauthorized contact with this stuff is an instant death. It was quite
powerful and an interesting experience to say the least. it got the
job done though. I love clean things.
Well, the gospel is true and life is good. I hope that everyone back
home is doing great and making good decisions. Talk to you soon!
love,
Elder Misbach
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