Everything is coming to a close here as February winds down. It's
already 4 days until the end and my birthday comes in 8 days, that's pretty
exciting but I'm sure that it will be just like any other day out here so I'm
sort of looking forward to it, sort of not. It doesn't really feel like I should
be turning 20 and stop being a teenager. Nor does it feel like it has been a
year since my last birthday. Heck it still feels like I just barely got into the
MTC and that surreal feeling of being a missionary hasn't really faded at all.
It's still crazy to me that I'm in a foreign country and I speak the language
fairly well, enough that I can get around decently and all that kind of stuff.
At the end of this month I'll have been out for 9 months total, that is just so
fast haha, i still feels like I should be a greenie forever and that I'm going
to be a young missionary the rest of my mission. I mean Elder Barber only has 3
months. It's crazy because he was at his year when I entered. It just seems
so quick. This next year will probably be quicker than the last and probably the
second that I figure things out, I'll be going home already.
Anyways this week has been rather difficult for me personally and I don't
really know why. I mean not seeing people meet with us is not the worst thing
that has happened. That's just something that has followed me my whole
mission but just this specific week has been tough but now that I'm on to this week
it's fine and I'm doing better. We got haircuts today and that was a relief
because we're getting 20 minute interviews with President Mcconkie on Wednesday.
I've gotten used to Bratislava for the most part and I'm not as lost as I
was before so that's a bonus. The district has been great though and I love them
all. This week we did have an another training in Brno so for the 2nd week
in a row we were out of our area for a training and it was great. It was a
little similar to the training that we received the first month that I was in
the country. It was about finding new investigators, which our area needs right
now because we have found quite a few people but that never transitions to them
wanting to meet with us but it looks like we'll meet with
another girl on Friday and we're
excited for that. On the other hand we have been meeting with a few less-actives
and just trying to gain their trust and see if we can get them back at church,
we have 2 less-actives who attend church right now but it's hard for them to
make it into that next step of activity every time that they are almost there. T
hey fall and we build them back up and then they fall again and then we pick
them up again. It's great though because it's just similar to how we as people
in general fall and then we got to pick ourselves up and keep going even when we
don't see the light at the tunnel it's still there and we just don't recognize
it until we finally emerge from the darkness into the brightness. Okay enough
with that poetic stuff and stuff like it. But it is true.
This coming week we have a full week in our area so that's rather great and
I'm looking forwad to it, and I'm going to exhaust Elder Roosendaal, and
myself. II've been pretty exhausted this past week. We've been trying our hardest
to really set Bratislava on fire like Elder Lamb the district leader wants and
so that's our goals and it is definitely possible with our area even though we
just started. It will happen, I have faith. Me and Elder Roosendaal are
getting along pretty well, it's kind of the same situation where all new
missionaries are where they don't really want to open up and just lose
themselves on their missions. By the end I'm sure he'll be opened up. I'm glad
I'm over it because I'm having a lot more fun now than before. But I was
stubborn just like everyone trying to resist the change but I embrace it now and
I just accept it as a fact of life and the mission.
On the other hand it was great to hear from everyone, I heard that Dad must
be really lonely because he says he has enjoyed the dog's company. Are you
planning on shipping her to Korea or is she going to stay with you? Samantha
told me all about her wonderful trainer which has made her unpaid work sound
like working in the sewer of a football stadium right after a game, or
half-time. Then Richard has also informed me that he has missed the stage of Asha
calling her dada or Daddy and is now miffed that she ahs already passed it.
Other than that thank you all for the letters
I received the package for my birthday and I'm sorry but I opened it up
right away, I haven't eaten anything but oh my goodness that is a crazy packed
box haha. Everyone is jealous of the food that has been stuffed into it so thank
you so much for it, it has been amazing! Anyways I love you all and hope you're
all doing great and being safe, until next week!
Elder Ferrell
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