March 1, 2010

Hey, sorry this is coming in so late. We've been doing what we're calling the weeks of war. We're focusing on the war chapters and all the assistants are traveling around the mission and doing exchanges for all last week and all this week. Its about 6:15 now and we'll be leaving at 7 for the McMinnville zone, I'll be going to Manchester till Wednesday morning and then I'll be going to Franklin and from there we'll head back to the mission home for ZLC on Friday and then Saturday we're off to the Nashville zone. We've set some crazy high goals like 2000 potential investigators and 840 new investigators 80 dates set etc. Most of these goals are double our normal averages so we're really pushing for them but its been really fun.

I'm glad to hear that Grandma is doing better and that she can get out. Its a bummer that Ali is going to have to do more physical therapy. What you said about her curfews reminded me of something that happened last night. It was about 8:00 and some missionaries gave me a call to ask if they could go over to a neighboring area and spend the night so that they were all there on the morning of P-day. However in the handbook it says that P-day doesnt start till 10 so I talked with them about it and told them no. They kept pushing and I asked, "well why do you want to have a sleep over so bad?" and they responded, "Just for fun." and I said that it was not an adequate reason and they'd just have to leave their apartment after 10 a.m. the next day. Then I thought to myself, wow, Mom and Dad said that exact same thing to me all the time. But when I did it it wasn't breaking mission rules :).

Anyhow nothing too crazy has gone on this week and I've still got to write an article and make some spreadsheets before we leave in 30 min. But I love you and hope your week is fantastic.