HELLO FAMILY AND FRIENDS! all is going well! so man... ugh where to start? at the beginning would make sense haha. so yeah, got off the plane all fin and dandy, met Quinn and Michelle at the airport and uncle kyle picked us up in the Jaguar. from there we went to some restaurant for lunch (we had like 3 hours of spare time) and then chilled at their Bed and Breakfast until i had to go (its down the street). they dropped me off, kyle made a HUGE scene, yelling and crying "hysterically" as its raining and everyone was like "what the heck that kids dad" NOT EVEN MY DAD HES MY UNCLE. any ways, thanks for that uncle, thats some true love right there. so i get in, get all my papers, info and name tags then headed to my room and dropped everything off. after that i walked to my classroom to meet my Companion, who id be spending the duration of my time here with at the MTC (12 days). his name is Elder Christenson, and its from MESA!!!!! he is also going to eugene, so theres a good chance we'll see each other on the field! he's a pretty... interesting guy. remember me saying id die if i got an exact, very churchy comp? well the lord works in mysterious ways and i got one. but he's actually way cool. he is VERY exact on timing, rules and scheduling. he knows literally everything about the scriptures, talks, like... everything. and here i am like "ughhh yeah nephi was that guy that did that one thing". but i thin k we balance really well, i lack a lot of scriptural knowledge that everyone seems to have here, but i made that up in being highly relatable to people. i'm very much social, and he is very much the opposite. i think there is things we both lack, that we teach each other. but whats really cool despite that, when we prepares and discuss for our lessons, dude we are IN SYNC. like everything we have done so far is RIGHT ON POINT BOO YEAH.
today we actually had our first "investigator" who was really just our teacher acting an investigator. but we planned a lesson based on a "voicemail" left by her. we did our personal study for it then came together for companion study to share thoughts and we both had like perfect stuff to share with her. so we walked in this morning to have a discussion with "audrey". it was sooooooooo smooth, and even if the body of "audrey" was our teacher, we both grew a love for this "audrey" Audrey is actually an investigator our teacher had, so her reactions and everything were true to character. its crazy how instantly we loved her and wanted her to come unto christ. it was like.. weird almost but WAY cool.
other things... our District consists of 3 sets of elders and two sister sets. my comp and i and one other elder are going to eugene, while the rest of the elders and sisters are going to Phoenix! they cover more northern AZ tho. there's one sister actually from Gilbert who's going to vegas temple square, and she actually knows some of my friends! so if Jade is reading this, tell Chase that Sister Hurst from gilbert says hi! she also knows dodes and aaraon adams (sry fam these are people you don't know but are friends i know lol) so thats super exciting! I also ran into GUS!!!! he got a pic on his camera, so look for his email (i didn't have mine at the time) and he's looks like he's doing well. he walks with such a stature and seems to really have a handle on things. you can just tell when he walks he's doing great.
i my self and doing fine! really tired, the days are nonstop busy with very little downtime which kind of sucks a lot. the beds here are decent but the blankets suck so its uncomfortable but whatever, sleep is for the weak right? ummmm what else... nothing much has happened other than what i told you, just a lot of studying and planning mostly! OH! and the elders we met at the airport going to eugene, they aren't in my district or zone, but i do seem them occasionally! so thats cool! ummm well thats pretty much it so far. i got the mail in today! mom stop sending so many dear elders!!!! i had so many and my district got jealous hahaha! also the package came in, 2 much candy 2 handle, good thing i got 3 other roomies!
but yeah its going great! weather is good, people is good, food is good!
Love and miss you guys!
Elder Schick
(mom send this to people k thx)
(also the photos on this comp seem to be broke so ill see about sending some in another email)
today we actually had our first "investigator" who was really just our teacher acting an investigator. but we planned a lesson based on a "voicemail" left by her. we did our personal study for it then came together for companion study to share thoughts and we both had like perfect stuff to share with her. so we walked in this morning to have a discussion with "audrey". it was sooooooooo smooth, and even if the body of "audrey" was our teacher, we both grew a love for this "audrey" Audrey is actually an investigator our teacher had, so her reactions and everything were true to character. its crazy how instantly we loved her and wanted her to come unto christ. it was like.. weird almost but WAY cool.
other things... our District consists of 3 sets of elders and two sister sets. my comp and i and one other elder are going to eugene, while the rest of the elders and sisters are going to Phoenix! they cover more northern AZ tho. there's one sister actually from Gilbert who's going to vegas temple square, and she actually knows some of my friends! so if Jade is reading this, tell Chase that Sister Hurst from gilbert says hi! she also knows dodes and aaraon adams (sry fam these are people you don't know but are friends i know lol) so thats super exciting! I also ran into GUS!!!! he got a pic on his camera, so look for his email (i didn't have mine at the time) and he's looks like he's doing well. he walks with such a stature and seems to really have a handle on things. you can just tell when he walks he's doing great.
i my self and doing fine! really tired, the days are nonstop busy with very little downtime which kind of sucks a lot. the beds here are decent but the blankets suck so its uncomfortable but whatever, sleep is for the weak right? ummmm what else... nothing much has happened other than what i told you, just a lot of studying and planning mostly! OH! and the elders we met at the airport going to eugene, they aren't in my district or zone, but i do seem them occasionally! so thats cool! ummm well thats pretty much it so far. i got the mail in today! mom stop sending so many dear elders!!!! i had so many and my district got jealous hahaha! also the package came in, 2 much candy 2 handle, good thing i got 3 other roomies!
but yeah its going great! weather is good, people is good, food is good!
Love and miss you guys!
Elder Schick
(mom send this to people k thx)
(also the photos on this comp seem to be broke so ill see about sending some in another email)