New Responsibilities
Well, since I didn’t get any emails from family this week, I don’t have a lot to reply to, freeing me up to talk about what was a very interesting week for me. I thought I wasn’t going to have much time to write today, but the lack of emails actually turned out to be a blessing. Elder Katanuma did, in fact, get transferred early to the mission home, so I spent the week in Matsumoto (I’m still here, in Matsumoto, actually) with the Zone Leaders. It was an amazing week, I’ll tell you more about it in my email next week, we don’t have more than maybe 15min for email today, and we are doing it late. Let’s just say this was one of the most fun weeks of my mission, and I’ll explain more later.
Anyway, they big news is - tonight (in 30mins) I’m catching a train down to the mission home as well, and tomorrow morning I’ll pick up an Elder straight out of the MTC. I’m going to be training a new missionary this transfer, still in Ina. I’m pretty excited, but pretty nervous. It should be a pretty interesting experience. I won’t know his name or anything until tomorrow so you will have to wait a week to hear all about him. The good news is, I feel confident about Japanese - the bad news is, I feel a little sad for him that his first area is Ina. I’m going to have to work extra hard to love him and prevent him from feeling discouraged. I have already promised myself I won’t say a single bad thing about the area this next transfer, so hopefully that will help me be a little happier about the area too.
Anyway, because I wasn’t in Ina this week, I also haven’t had a chance to read letters or anything either. Thus, this week will be slightly boring. I do have one bit of advice for LeeAnne though - beware of zone leaders. One of ours is going home, and because he was so close to finishing, he let himself kind of start to crush on one of the Sisters in the area, and he was talking about her ALL WEEK. It was annoying beyond description. Zone leaders are dangerous around the Sisters, I have decided - especially if they are at all attractive. I must say, I have learned my lesson NOT to ever be like that. It was pretty funny during the week at times though, and we made good fun of him.
Well, I better be going, or else I’ll miss my train and be late to the mission home. That probably wouldn’t be good. Love you all, sorry for the lame email this week, and pray for me - I’ll need some extra help the next six weeks as I, in mission terms, become a father. Oh, and pray he is a good missionary too.
Talk to you next week!
Greg Burnham
gregburnham@myldsmail.net
1-304 Itakadai
Meito-ku Nagoya-shi Aichi-ken
465-0028 Japan
