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I'm a Trainer!

June 8, 2020

Hello everyone!! I hope you all had a good week!

On Thursday, President Teuscher called me and asked me if I would train a new missionary! He said it is the most sacred assignment that he gives to missionaries because a trainer makes a big impact on how the rest of your mission goes. He said that he has seen me grow a lot and feels like I am ready! I am going to be a dad! Just in time for Fathers Day haha! Because of the virus, transfers are working a little differently. My trainee is actually going to be dropped off directly at my house TONIGHT, and I will be in a trio until tomorrow afternoon when Elder Goodman gets picked up by an Uber to go to his new area.

ELDER GOODMAN IS GETTING TRANSFERED TO RICHMOND HILL WITH ELDER LARSON AND A NEW RE-ASSIGNED MISSIONARY!! How crazy is that?! He is going to my last area and my last companion! This seems to be a common trend in my mission because my 1st and 2nd companion got assigned together, and then my 3rd and 4th companion got assigned together! Literally all of my companions have served with eachother... so crazy how that worked out!

So this next transfer, I am training a missionary who did not go to the MTC, and I am serving as a District Leader over a district with 12 missionaries in it. I am juggling all of this in an area I have barely seen, a ward I have barely met, facing the Covid-19 Pandemic in the epicenter of the world, and also while there are violent riots just outside my apartment. What a crazy time this is.

This is A LOT on my plate haha and I am honestly really excited to see how everything goes but I am pretty stressed out. I am expecting to hopefully have a couple baptisms soon too (maybe even this week if we get permission to meet together)! We have been working super hard, teaching about 8 lessons ever single day. We are just about ready to start doing combined lessons, where we just add several people to one call and teach them all at once... we literally don't have enough time to teach everyone that wants to be taught haha. This is probably not what my trainee is expecting haha so I am sure he will be surprised and excited to hear that our days are packed full of things to do.

Thats pretty much all of my news! Please pray for me and my new companion! He didn't get any MTC experience so I am nervous he will not know any spanish or know anything he needs to know. It will be an interesting week for sure! Have a great week!

Elder Webster

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