Elder Morley Haley Santa Fe Argentina Mission: Week Two

So this week was one of the fastest slow days on earth. Sunday we had a bunch of meetings and so I was moving from 5:30 in the morning until I fell asleep around 10:30. Not to mention it was fast Sunday. I had a branch council meeting, then priesthood meeting, then district meeting, then sacrament meeting and fast and testimony meeting. After all of that, the new missionaries went to a training that I can’t remember a lot about at the moment. The schedule says it was a “One by One” meeting. Then we had a mission conference which is basically just a devotional that the entire MTC attends. We didn’t sing Called to Serve first thing in one of our meetings. One of the first songs we sang though was the Army of Helaman song from Primary. Instead of “we will be the Lords missionaries” we sang “we are now the Lords missionaries” It was awesome. The MTC presidency spoke and the first half was really good but then the heat of the meeting and the freaking terribly uncomfortable chairs made me basically die. Then our entire Zone went on a temple walk with the Branch Presidency. We just walk to the temple in the cold and sing songs for a good half hour. Most people hate it but I liked it. Then we had this thing called Match the Message that is basically the MTC presidency calling us out for wearing “inappropriate socks” or having goofy haircuts. After that, we had about an hour or so to sit around and ponder. Our socks are supposed to match the color of our pants. Most people use that time to moan and groan about how hungry they are. Then we had a Sunday devotional that was good. Then we watched this video called Character of Christ. It’s a recording of one of Elder Bednar’s devotionals. It was crazy spiritual and gave a good smack to everyone’s face about not thinking about yourself so much and just going to work.

Monday was just a day full of studying and teaching. We had one investigator at the beginning of the week who ended up being our teacher. So we taught her a lesson every day except Tuesday. In Spanish. So it’s a good thing it wasn’t a real investigator. People say it should only take about 30 minutes to plan a lesson. But when you have to plan the lesson, translate it all, and then practice speaking it, it takes a lot longer. So our personal studying is to a minimum. My Spanish is progressing, but slowly.

Tuesday night’s devotional was done by a member of the Seventy. He and his wife talked about their conversion story and what we as missionaries should do to help convert people and bring them closer to Christ.

Basically the most exciting part of my days here is exercise time. We have a bunch of really good volleyball players so it fun. Except they can take it a little too seriously so if you mess up your shamed for the rest of the time your here. So I play quite a bit of basketball.

Everyone in the Zone is pretty nice and fun. There are a bunch of crazy people that stay up late at night. It’s crazy but also fun. Except for when I’m tired. Then they need to go to bed too. We have had snow but barely any and it melted before lunch. It’s just been pretty cold here most of the time. Its below freezing in the mornings and nights but warm during the afternoon. We went to the temple again this morning.

Part of my responsibility as a District Leader is to get everyone’s mail. I check it twice a day…

Love you all!

Elder Haley