This Is Nice

       Ayo. This week has been pretty great. Training has been a lot more normal than I thought it would be.

       I got a really great person to train. He's actually a lot like my friend Josh Ek. For any of you who don't know Josh just trust me that's a good thing, a really good thing. Everybody loves Josh and I already really love my companion Elder Whetten and it's so surprising to me how much he really is just like Josh. Elder Whetten is from Oregon and was unfortunately not called to Layton, Utah. He was originally called to Tahiti and what's even more sad is that his Visa has already been sent and could come any day now. He's already been told that he'll be staying for the entire transfer, but almost certainly he'll be gone after the transfer. 

       Elder Whetten is already a pretty good missionary though, he has a testimony of the Book of Mormon, he wants to work hard, and he wants to improve and grow. Those 3 things right there are really all that you need to be a good missionary in my opinion. Basically all I'm doing to train, is helping him improve his teaching skills, learn the missionary lifestyle, and answer any questions he has. Nothing very hard.

       This week was just nice. Time went by really quickly again, we found new people who seem to be genuinely interested, and feeling the spirit was just a lot easier this week which is always a nice thing. One thing I've noticed is that missionaries always act more like they're supposed to when they get a new companion. Then as they get more comfortable around each other, they loosen up. I've definitely done that again as I'm doing a lot of things better than I had been. I'm excited to see which things stick this time around because there's always a couple things that have stuck with me the whole transfer and beyond that. 

              I love the missionary lifestyle, it's just so nice. Elder Blacker