sounds like you guys had an awesome week! i would say a lot more exciting than mine! it made me trunky to hear that so many were there to watch conference! i guess it´s the same session down here, but it´s not really the same experience. and then to hear that there´s only 8 weeks of school too is crazy! i didn´t even realize it was that close! time really has flown by way fast! and speaking of time, officially i still haven´t decided, but i´m getting closer and closer to coming home on october 24th. i still haven´t told president, i think we have interviews next month so i´ll tell him then, but i´m really leaning to october right now. i don´t know, i would like to come home with elder clarke, but also be his comp, and it´s more likely that that would happen if i go home a change early. so i don´t know, i´ll still think about it, but that´s kinda where i´m at right now.
so yes i was able to watch conference this time, and it was really good! again it´s not really the same experience as it is at home, what with the food and candy and all, i´m actually a little tight on money right now cause i´ve had to pay for a few big things, so i wasn´t able to buy a bunch of junk food, so it just wasn´t the same haha. but i liked it. elder holland´s talk was awesome, as always right? i just like how straightforward he is, and he just has a power in his voice that´s just awesome. i also really enjoyed the priesthood session. one of the things that stood out to me the most was during president eyering´s talk. it really had nothing to do with what he was saying, but the thought just occured to me that it was interesting how this time last year i was just starting my mission in colón, and how i was super trunky and everything was super hard and i didn´t really like it, and how it seemed that every talk was especially for me in that moment. they talked a lot about family and missionary work and things like that, and it helped me out a ton. but how this year my needs have changed, i´ve got to worry about the missionaries in my district and my comp and i can focus on investigators more, and so as my needs have changed, it seemed the themes of the talks changed too. it made me think that God is aware of me, and aware of my challenges and problems in each moment, and offers me advice or counsel in each moment i need it, and it´s always different. i felt like this conference had a lot to do with what was happening right now in my life. it was really good :)
and so yes, i did have changes as well, and i am now in a place called san vicente. it´s really close to where i started my mission in buena vista, it´s like the area right next to it, but i´m in a different zone. it looks a lot like it though. this place is super hilly though! it´s crazy! it´s also super big. we have to walk a lot and take a lot of buses. it´s kind of a dead area, well not really dead, but the missionaries that were here last change didn´t do anything. one of them is my comp...his name is elder castillo, and he´s officially from costa rica, but his mom i think is from panama, and all of his family lives in this place called bocas del toro, so his family is like right here. it´s kind of a problem. we´ve already had a few tough times and we´ve only been together for 4 days. so seeing as how is family is right here in the country, it´s really easy for them to call eachother. so we come home on like friday, and there´s a few missed calls from someone, and it turns out to be from his house. so he just sits and talks to them, and finds out that his dad had an accident, and with his mom already being sick, he just got super trunky. he just went and layed on his bed, and was like crying and saying he wanted to go home cause it´s too hard and all this stuff. i tried to give him some advice and stuff, but honestly i think he was just trying to make a scene, cause after he goes and tells the ENTIRE world that he wants to go home, and he just always talks about negative things like that with everyone. it´s tough. as it has been with almost all of my comps, he has very little regard for the rules, and it´s hard. i just want someone that follows the rules. i want a comp to get up with me at 6 30 and go running or something, a comp that will study with me when we´re supposed to, a comp that will actually help me teach. so we´ve got a lot to work on this change, we basically have to start over with the area cause they had no investigators, which means we may have a few slow days to begin with, but i´m still hopeful. we have met a few people and they came to the conference yesterday and they liked it a lot, so they have some promise.
this change i was also given all the sisters in the zone in my district, and i don´t know how to work with sisters haha. last change i only had one other companionship of elders, and now i have 2 sets of sisters, but i don´t know how to really help them. i can´t do divisions with them now, cause they just put that rule cause it looks like a "double date," so i can only talk to them through the phone every once in awhile. maybe trev or dad or anyone else has some working with sisters advice? who knows, maybe this will help me to work with my future wife some day? :)
well that about wraps it up. it was an interesting week, but not a lot happened. conference was good, this new change seems a little hard, but i still think it´ll be good. hope you all have a good week, that you have lots of fun, that everything goes well too! we´ll talk to you next week!
much love,
elder paskett
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