Hey everyone!!!
Well it looks like i'll be heading out on Monday! I can't believe it's already here!
I'm e-mailing you today because my p-day is on Monday, and my flight leaves at 7:45 am so i'll probably be leaving the MTC by 5 am or something close to that.
I guess i'll start off by answering some of the questions i've been asked through e-mail/letters this week...
1. What are your duties as a Zone Leader?
Part of my duties include interviews with the District Leaders to find out how their District is doing. I also Lead any Zone Meetings, which we seem to have at least 3 a week here. I also gave the new missionaries that came in on wednesday their orientation, and a tour of the campus. And lately i've been trying to deal with an issue between two of the sisters in my zone... normally i would pass this off to the sister training leader, but she's part of the problem.... so that's been fun... and I'm not sure what else, there are little things that come up throughout the day that i have to take care of. But i recently held my own meeting with everyone in the zone to have a sort of Companionship Inventory, with all of them... it started off badly, but by the end, we are definitely the tightest zone on the whole campus, no doubt.
2. How's the food?
The food is... not that good... It always looks and sounds good, but i firmly believe that they suck the flavor out of everything with a syringe before they serve it. Its rarely good, it's usually disappointing, and occasionally it's bad. But luckily they bring in Papa Johns every Friday, so we have that beacon of light to hold on to at least haha...
3. What is my favorite part of the MTC?
Either Brother Sebesta (my teacher) or doing role plays.
Brother Sebesta is really really good. he's kinda weird, but cool. if you ask him a strait question, he'll likely answer it with another question designed to make you frustrated and feel stupid... but then you find the answer on your own, which is the whole point of the MTC.
The role plays i was told would be really stupid and annoying, but i was also told to take it seriously... luckily i got a companion who takes it just as seriously as me, and because of that, we have learned a whole bunch of stuff!!! My teaching skills have improved rapidly! which is good because they weren't that great to start out with...
4. How was I chosen to be a Zone Leader?
We had a meeting with the Branch President and his counselors on my second day. They gave us a simple paper with a few questions on it, we were told to stand up and answer the questions, following the sheet in order, and then sit down... pretty simple right? But They were looking at how the other missionaries reacted when you spoke, (whether or not they all turned to listen to you), they were looking at how you present yourself, (posture, hands in pockets, button undone on jacket when standing, etc), They were looking at how well you spoke, how long you took, whether or not you were nervous, and other things like that.... They didn't tell us until after that that was what they were looking for, but i kinda guessed as much since they got out a sheet of paper to take notes while we spoke. I had to go first so i didn't have any idea how i should do some of the things on the paper, but i guess i did okay since everyone tried to copy the way i did it. After that we had a simple interview with one of the counselors, and then they announced who was chosen for what.
5. Do I have exercise time?
Yes i do, about 5 times a week I get 45 minutes to do whatever i want in the morning. I always go play basketball :) My district is all pretty athletic, but they all underestimated me from the beginning. Which was perfectly fine for me, they put some of the easier guys on me at first, after i was done with them they tried putting the best on me. he's better than me, but is still surprised when i pull out some of my old moves haha. it's really fun! too bad i didn't realize the last time i went would be the last time... i had to use my gym time today to write this, and i leave on Monday, with no gym on Sunday... I decided to play some volleyball just to mix it up, but if i had known it would be my last, i would've played B-ball...
6. How many are in the Zone?
I have about 30 in my zone...
Well i gotta go!!!
Talk to you from the airport! (mom) haha
-Elder DeFreese
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