Questions, Answers.

I feel like nothing happened this week kinda, so I'm gonna answer all of momma's questions. She (or you) asked, "I am wondering what this week was like.  Did you have Zone Conference?  Did you have any appointments?  Did you have any baptisms?  Did you meet some new investigators?  How is your new area?  What are some interesting things about your companion?  What are you studying in the gospel right now?  I really would like to hear about your day to day life."

Did you have Zone Conference?  This week we had MLC, it's a meeting with all of the zone leaders and sister training leaders from all over the mission. It's fun because I get to see old friends and whatnot, but really because Pres. trains us up right about what he/ the big man upstairs want us to do that month. 

Did you have any appointments? Yes. Haha, jk, I'll be more detailed. We had a buttload of punched appointments this week, but we had a few good ones. We got one of our investigators to go to a fireside by Pres. Ames, and he (pres.) did a way good job and taught about the godhead and it was awesome. Elder Leavitt and I translated.

Did you have any baptisms? Nope.

Did you meet some new investigators? We met a couple new ones. Almost every time we meet someone, within 10 seconds we're talking about where they're from. We told this lady we were from mexico just jokin around and she laughed and said to Elder Leavitt- "no, tu te ves muy white boy" Hahaha. 

How is your new area? Good. Still going strong here in Hurst. Haha, it's a good ward. My area is pretty much pure apartment complexes. there's tons of houses, but it's like trying to find a needle in a haystack looking for spanish people in there. So, apartments all day yay.

What are some interesting things about your companion? Haha, not a whole lot. Not that he's not interesting or anything. 

What are you studying in the gospel right now? Right now the whole mission is reading the book of mormon from cover to cover, in 65 days. So I'm focusing on that, and then just whatever the people we're going to teach that day are going to need. Some interesting study topics in the past have been-

Perfection and the Gospel

Faith, repentance, baptism, gift of holy ghost, endure to the end

The Fall of Adam and Eve

Grace

Justice, Mercy, and The Atonement

The Godhead

and some other fun stuff. 

I really would like to hear about your day to day life.  Technically that's not a question, but here it is. At 6:20 I wake up and brush my teeth, then we go run a mile or so. I eat breakfast and get dressed and whatnot, then we study for 3 hours, (personally, companionship, then spanish). Then i eat lunch. We hop on the bikes and go contact people or tract, and come home for dinner. Then we usually have a member come out with us at night. 

I pretty much don't speak english unless someone is there that isn't a spanish speaker. I like to eat chicken and brown rice. I like to take 20 minute power naps during lunch. I decided that I only want to listen to really churchy music, but I'm just not a big fan of motab, so I don't really listen to anything anymore. But I really like silence and thinking about stuff. 

Whelp, that's about all. I am good at question answer I think.

Love,

Cole

P.S. i don't really have a ton of pictures, sorry. I'll be better next week probably maybe.

**Photo's from the Facebook page of the MLC Conference**

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