Hello from 75 degrees and no clouds! It just makes me feel good to hear about how cold the weather is back home and I get to walk around in short sleeve shirts all day. And get tan haha.
This week on Tuesday we had to drive a companionship down to Vista to meet with President Thomas. It is a missionary that goes home in 2 transfers and his greenie. This greenie is on his second trainer, his first one requested to be trasferred 3 weeks into last transfer. And now this one is requesting it as well because this greenie is super tough. One thing that I would advise everyone, is that 18 is not the new 19. Just because the new age to leave on a mission is 18, if you aren't ready to go, then wait until you are. Because if you leave before that point, you will waste months if not more trying to either mature, gain a testimony, or even have a desire to be there. Serving a mission is not easy at all. And if you don't do the necessary things to prepare for it, it will walk all over you. There are way too many missionaries that don't do these things and end up going home, and won't be able to come back out. Now think if they would have waited another year or even two if necessary, and experience being away from home and taking care of themselves, they would have served an honorable mission. This week we had 7 missionaries ranging from 3 - 9 months go home because of this exact cause. And likely more in the coming weeks.
We picked up a new investigator this week! Her name is Melissa. She grew up surrounded by members of the church and was even a brides maid at a wedding a few weeks ago for a member of the church. She doesn't have any religious background. She was contacted by the missionaries in the Winchester ward and they passed her off to us because she is YSA aged. She is pretty cool, and will probably take a little longer to progress. So we will see how it goes.
On Friday we had MLC which was really good. We weren't given any training. It was a team building meeting. We did a lot of activities and it was super fun.
Well I gotta get running right now, but it was good to hear from you all! Wish you all a good week!
Elder Ethan Miles
P.S. I fixed my camera. I threw it at the ground and it started to work again