I can't believe that I'm leaving tomorrow morning at 3, but
I'm really excited to get out of here. The MTC has taught me so much,
but it really gets to you. I have made some of the best friends of my
life in the last 3 weeks here, I can't believe how lucky I am to have
had such an awesome district. It feels as if I have known them for a
life time, it just goes to show what you can do when you have the same
goal as someone else.
2 days ago we went on exchanges to get a feel for other
peoples teaching styles, and it was an adventure. I was put with Elder
Nicholson, and he's the weird guy in our district, there will always be a
weird guy in the district, there's no escaping that. He has some sort
of social anxiety or something, I haven't quite been able to put my
finger on it. He kinda smells funny, and he never lies, which makes
things interesting for sure with how brutally honest he is. As we were
teaching I couldn't help but laugh at how he explained simple gospel
principles, his face is always emotionless, and you can never tell if
he's joking or not. We were inviting our investigator to come to church,
and she responded that the only reason she would feel hesitant to
coming is that someone in the relief society had offended her, without
skipping a beat Elder Nicholson points to me and said "believe me I know
exactly what it's like when you don't get along with people in the
church." haha, jeez what a goon, he honestly hates me, but I have made
it my goal to love the crap out of that guy. He takes things so
literally all the time so it was hard learning to adjust the way I
communicate with him. Luckily that was only for one day and soon enough I
was reunited with my trio. I was talking to Elder Nicholson's companion
and he informed me that he had only see him shower once in the whole
three weeks, all I can say is I'm glad that I haven't had to deal with
that. I would have stripped that guy down butt naked and thrown him the
shower. companionships are awesome because you are literally with them
all them time, and I'm pretty sure everyone in our district has gotten
into some fights, it's funny to me to see what some of the missionaries
will fight about, sometimes you just gotta let people get wild. At the
end of the day everyone loves each other and I love being in the
district that I'm in, luckily for me the trio hasn't gotten into any
serious disagreements.
about a week ago, the senior district before us came and
bestowed upon us the "Monson cookies." Apparently about 6 months ago one
of Thomas S. Monson's grandsons was in the MTC, and he received cookies
hand delivered by the prophet himself, we have those very cookies in
our residence as I write this email. We are the 20th generation of
district 43 to have the Monson cookies. I'm not sure how these cookies
have survived this long honestly, they are solid rocks, but still smell
as fresh as every with how much sugar is in them. We hide them in
blanket sheets above one of the closets, and it still puzzles me how no
one checks the blankets when we have room inspections.
One of the TRC's that we were teaching this week might not
be a member, all of the TRC's are required to make an account on
Mormon.org if they are a member and we couldn't find hers, which is way
cool. We committed her to baptism and I have never felt the spirit that
strongly in any other lesson, so if it's true that she isn't a member
that would be incredible, and I'm super excited to find out, they
normally send you an email you you help one of the TRC's get baptized.
Well, here I come California! Thank you guys for all of the letters and support I love all of you!
Remember to say your prayers and read your scriptures, it really does make a difference!
Remember to say your prayers and read your scriptures, it really does make a difference!
--
Elder LeBaron
Elder LeBaron
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