Dear family,

My new companion is pretty cool.  He's pretty good with conversing with people.  He's also a really good cook.  We had district lunch last Friday, and we had chicken covered in cream cheese and bread crumbs with mashed potatoes.  I've learned a thing or two like how to make alfredo sauce.  So now I can make multiple kinds of pasta.  That's cool.  Anyways, another change to this transfer is I'm now a district leader.  I think it's a bit different than other missions though, because in my district we have the zone leaders and us.  Thus it is easy to keep track of everyone.  Also, I have to be in charge of district meeting, so I do trainings and practices and try to inspire them.  If anybody has any cool inspirational quotes, let me know.

Anyways, we started up the English course again this week.  We got 1 person to show up.  Second day, 2 people.  We sent out a text message to our students, and hopefully we can get at least 4 people next Wednesday.  That would be nice. 

This Wednesday, I also have this leadership training meeting, which is kind of funny because since the zone leaders go to this as well, the only person in my district that doesn't hear everything I hear is my companion.  Hopefully we will make it back in time to do our English course.

So, this week, we broke a horrible trend that was happening in this area since I got here.  The first weeks of each transfer was our worst week where we'd get 2 or 3 lessons, but this week, we got 7.  Great way to start a transfer.  Hopefully we can boost that this transfer.

Anyways, There's not all that much else I can say for this week, so enjoy the new year!

Love,
Elder Wallentine