Week 61 – The Suite Life

Hey!
This week was alright. As I mentioned the rumors were true I am in a hotel suite with Elder King. Monday night was good we finished the night with a meeting for Elder Elison to be trained as a district leader which was pretty alright and then we finished by messaging people. Tuesday is when Elder King and I became companions. The hotel is really nice, it’s got a gym, queen sized beds, plenty of room for my stuff and all that. But I can’t imagine how much it’s costing to keep missionaries in there. Unfortunately, the only thing it is missing is an oven, but it does have a grill so grill pizzas? Maybe idk sounds like a good idea to me.

Tuesday was mostly just getting moved into the room. Wednesday was good as well. We had district council which still being district leader I lead. We talked about faith and it was really good. I like my new district. Definely a different dynamic but good. It consists of Elder Fisi’iahi, Elder Halvorsen, Elder Steck, Elder Knowlton, Elder Reichden, Elder Larsen, Sister Crookston and Sister Erikson. But yeha a good district. Then that night we visited the Branch Mission leader at the time Hermano Neri who is pretty awesome. It was a really good conversation and it seems like the branch is pretty involved in missionary work. Thursday I got to meet one of our friends Nelly. She’s 17 and we just talked to her about the Book of Mormon for a bit and Hermana Galvan joined in on the zoom call, which is, unfortunately, only about the third time I’ve had a member present a lesson. We also had a couple other lessons on Thurday which was nice so we had a busy day.

Friday we did a lot of service which was awesome because most of it is also with the district and it gave us a lot to do. Saturday we had ZLC and basically Elder Hatch got moved her with me so we’re gonna keep up basically ArMargeddon but calling it FEverWood because we are in the Everett Lynwood or EverWood zone. Then we got to meet the Sierras who gave us food to take. They’re pretty awesome and they have a little 5 year old named Sofia who is awesome. She’s got an incredible memory, loves misionaries and Star Wars so it was really fun to talk and teach her in Spanish.

Sunday was pretty chill. We got to watch the branch presidency be reorganized and well Hermano Sierra is now Presidente Sierra and Hermano Neri his now his first council, Hermano Perez is is second councilor and Hermano Cruz is the new Elders Quorum President. Hermano Cruz decided to give us food to take out but we ended up staying in his house with the other Elders in the branch, Elder Boren and Elder Smith and we just had a great conversation on ideas on how the branch can better help us. So yeah, this branch is awesomely mission work minded and I’m excited. Unfortunately the area I’m in has not had a ton going on, for various reasons so I’m going to be back on the messaging people grind for a bit but if all goes to plan I could be teaching a lot do referalls. I’m overall excited to be in the new branch and have the change. Anyways I hope and pray this next week will be greater than this one even though over all this last one was great.

Questions –

Tell us about your new companion and share something you admire about him. – See above mostly. He was trained by Elder Durbano and I knew him in his training. I admire the relationship that he has made with the members here

Share some details about your new area and how the work is going there. – Slow yeah. It needs a pick me up right now and so does Elder King

Just out of curiosity how much baggage did you have when you moved? – Not tons. Contacts and tolietries and inhalers take up a decent but of space, and so does study stuff. I could fit all my stuff into my suitcases except my bedding and 2 week food supply

Share a favorite scripture from your recent scripture study and how that scripture is Changing you are becoming. – Hmmm… That’s a great question. A scripture not exactly but I have studied recently how important is to change our thoughts
So my goal this week is to talk back to negative or criticizing thoughts

Favorite moment of the past week. – Talking to Sofia about Star Wars krn the conversation with Hermano Cruz Sunday night

Oh just in case I forgot to share we can now meet in members homes so yes!!! Things are improving in getting to be able to balance online and in person work.

Love you all!
Elder Tonkinson
https://eldertonkinson.home.blog/