Sorry I didn't e mail last week. We had to go out to Perrysburg to pick up a missionary that went home... That was an awkward 2 hour drive. It wasn't for health or homesickness either. I hate doing that. I have had 8 missionaries go home before they were supposed to since I have been an assistant for various reasons. Its hard to see. This one kinda acted like he couldn't care less though so that is why it was awkward.
He is getting big! (Ryan) I can see me walking off the plane and him looking straight to the top of my head standing up tall just making sure that he really is taller than me haha. I can't believe he is graduating. He definitely looks older than when I left though. I hope everything goes well with graduation! Don't forget to send me pictures. I can't believe all those kids are going on missions too, only weeks after they graduate... Hopefully Stephen can get a visa. We have 6 here waiting to go to Argentina.
After I skyped with you last week we went to my MTC teachers house for dinner. It was fun! We had dinner with their entire summer sales team. It was fun talking about the MTC and things I have done on my mission with her. We had a pretty interesting week. A lot to do but it was good. We helped Tom a couple times this week. Were making good progress on his roof and on him! We had a couple really good lessons. I have some pictures but I forgot my camera so I will send them later this week. The rest of zone conferences went really well! I am sad that they are over. I have grown to love training and helping missionaries. Sometimes I don't feel qualified, but I love to do it and practice with them. We went on exchanges with 4 missionaries that have been struggling this week. Elder Ingersoll spent the day with one companionship and I was with the other. It was much needed. It makes me just want to go on exchanges with every missionary in the mission. We had a weird day. They don't get along the greatest so it was weird. I kinda just sat back and watched and didn't say much through their companion study and first few hours of the day. They were just kinda dragging and I could tell they were just trying to fill time. When we went back to lunch I just talked to them about having a goal and a purpose in mind as you work and not just wandering around doing missionary things. They were just not having any fun so after a few hours of just stopping by random people I kinda took over and said we were gonna go find some people. We went to a park where there was a ton of people and it was great! At first they just kinda followed me as I talked with people and stuff but then I started seeing them get a lot more excited about it as I talked with them and showed them how to just talk with people. But we found like 5 potentials there so I had a great time. Its been forever since I went contacting. Then we taught one of the weirdest lessons of my mission. They have been teaching this Pentecostal guy and honestly I think he thinks he is teaching them because they didn't even say anything the first 20 minutes and I thought I was the one getting the lesson. We finally started talking about something relevant to what they planned to teach so I established purpose with him and tried to figure out why he was meeting with missionaries and just bore testimony to him. Then it got kinda weird. So we meet a lot of people who want to "teach" us or just argue or whatever and they're really smooth about it and its hard to kinda teach or get out of the situation. They try to tongue tie you and fluster you. I don't remember what I was saying or if I was bearing testimony or something but he got me in a stare. Something all these guys do. I don't like people telling me what I believe or trying to tear it down and this guy wasn't, but it was the stare that they all do. I never break eye contact with them anymore so we were kinda just staring at each other and then he says "You have a strong faith in what you believe young man. Your testimony has come from experience" and I just said ya I do. Then he like stuck his hand in the air and started like trying to prophesy or discern or something and was like telling me about my past. I mean he was right about a lot of stuff but he was still very general. It went on for a couple minutes and I felt the spirit just being sucked out of me and the room. It was on of the weirdest experiences of my mission. haha We walked out and I asked them if he has ever done anything like that and they like freaked out and said no and how weird that was and they didn't know what to do haha. It is hard to explain the whole situation but it was really weird and I encouraged them not to go back haha. Definitely a weird day as a whole though. That is one of those days I just wish I had a camera on my head so you could see all this.
Friday night was Kristen's birthday and President really wanted us to give her this horse in person haha he was excited about it. He wanted us to come to the bowling alley with all her friends and give it to her but I told him no haha. So he made up a story about how we needed to give him something before they all went out and got ice cream so he took all her friends back to the house and then he made me put on his cowboy hat and ring the door bell on the horse haha. Kristen about died. She was bright red. Her friends had no idea what was going on but it was funny. They loved it. She did turn 17.
I am getting transferred but I don't know where yet. We cant bring the new AP in yet because he is too far away like Elder Ingersoll was so he will have to do what I did for him to train him. Pretty much the only reason I started working with them before transfers was because I lived next door. He has had me all over the board though so I don't know what he will have me do. Probably be a zone leader. We have no leadership and way too many new missionaries.
So yesterday President had a meeting with the 5 stake Presidents, area authority and the temple president all day. Man how I would have like to have been in that meeting. It was at the stake center while we were at church so President Kirk from Youngstown came out to see me. He is one of the coolest people I know but he gave me a big hug and told me he would put in a word for President to put me back in the stake haha. President gave me a hard time for it this morning haha but I don't think I will go back there. I have a feeling where I am going and its probably the best for the mission.
Well I hope you have a great week with all the graduation stuff! Love and miss you!
Elder Skalla
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