Thanks for the pictures and stuff! Talmage is getting big! So is Jenni! ;) Her house is nice too!!!! Not bad for their first home. I am glad they are doing so well and the shower went well. Hillary said she loved seeing you guys again. I bet thats weird for all of you without me there haha.
So another crazy week in the life of Elder Skalla. I feel like I havent written a good letter in forever so we have some extra time today so I can tell you more of whats going on. First of all transfers are next week the 26th and I found out I will be getting transferred. President called yesterday and released me from being a zone leader and asked me to train again and be a district leader. It honestly scared me a little. Everyone, Elder Berryessa being the worst, kept telling me I was gonna be AP and stuff and when President called last night he was like "Elder Skalla I am releasing you from being a zone leader and I have a new assignment for you next transfer." Elder Berryessa was like freaking out at this point, but then he asked me to train haha I was so relieved. I thought I was gonna faint before though haha. Being a ZL went by soooo fast. 4 transfers is the norm but I felt like it just flew. I am soooooooo excited to train again though now knowing a little bit more of what I am doing haha. The only thing I am terrified of is that I am shotgun training. So I have to go to a brand new area with a brand new missionary and won't know anything about the area. That is gonna be hard but oh well you gotta have some kinda fun. I am kinda sad I am leaving Youngstown behind... I have been in the stake and with some of the same members for 11 months now and I dont wanna leave Tina and Dylan and everyone behind. I kept saying I was ready to leave but now that I actually am I don't want to haha.
The work this week went really well. I don't think I have told you about E. We were tracting last week and just knocked on her door and talked for like 30 mins and set a return appt. We called to confirm and she was telling me on the phone that she was already almost done with 2 Nephi and couldn't seem to put the book down. I just like didn't know what to say! No one has ever said that to me before! haha We taught her the next day and it went really well. Her husband is on tour in Iraq and comes home in 3 weeks and has a 1 year old daughter. She already told her husband about us and he is glad she is meeting with us so its like perfect! We were supposed to see her yesterday but her baby was in the hospital all night so we didn't get to, but we are gonna baptize the whole family! Well I won't but whoever comes here will! We also taught this crazy Hungarian lady and her husband. Its a long long story how we found him but the lesson was just funny. She has a thick thick accent and like during the lesson they would start getting really excited about things and stand up and start yelling and walking towards us. haha I was trying so hard not to laugh. Then she was flipping through her Bible for like 10 mins while her husband was talking and then stands up and reads the last few verses in revelations (never heard that one before) and like said we were wrong and all this funny stuff. haha But lets just say we are probably not going back there to teach anytime soon haha. We also took Anthony on a "Mini Mission" he came and spent the whole weekend with us and stuff. He is getting ready to put his papers in so we took him out to motivate him a little. It was so fun, he has had a rough life but he is a good kid and it was fun being with him for the weekend. The H Family is still doing amazing. Brother H has just left me speechless. He just got called as the young men's president and is doing amazing. We gave him a copy of Jesus the Christ like last week and he finished the whole thing and like told us all this stuff he learned. Its incredible. Tina is still doing well. She fed us dinner on Friday and we talked about temples. She HATES that she has to wait till May to go. She is still struggling. She got laid off and is having a hard time finding another job. We gave her a blessing yesterday after church. She is great though she will pull out of it.
I am so excited for this week. Tomorrow I get to go to the mission home for trainers meeting and Friday is mission conference with Elder Perkins so its gonna be a good week. I am running out of money though... I have been eating MUCH healthier lately and healthy food is way more expensive so it is kinda draining me. Plus with getting shotgunned I may need to use the credit card to get some food here in a couple weeks. Well I hope you have fun on your cruise... I am jealous. Tell everyone I say hi and that I miss them. Have a good week! I love you!
Elder Skalla
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