June 30, 2014

This week was okay. We did a lot of knocking but not a lot of success.
Today for p-day today we had a zone activity we went down to Bayshore
and played some kickball and some other sports. It's very hot and
humid outside. We went to CVS and I bought some chocolate bars because
they're on sale and I ate two of them before we went there so it will
hurt to run around. I kind of can't really control myself when it
comes to chocolate on sale. But I need to stop eating junk food so I
can lose weight and not be so fat. Last transfer I was pushing about
290 but for the last week or two I've been around 275. Which is nice
but I'm not eating right, still. But I'm just not eating a lot. I do
make sure to drink a lot of water though. I have a large container of
water that I drink almost every other day, and in the car I have at
least two water bottles full and I go through them everyday. So I
think those are saving me more than anything else.
 What's nice is that I've been sleeping good through the night instead
of taking a long time to fall asleep or even waking up at like four or
five in the morning. I've been waking up around six and then sleep in
till 630 and then we go work out. Every other day we go play handball
or go running at the school track by our house. I haven't really been
running in the last week because sleeping would hurt my back little
bit but I love to play handball.
  Every day at my feet hurt as always and it's mostly the left one I
don't use them for a few minutes to take a rest and once I start using
them my heels will hurt and my soles will hurt but I'm just used to it
and keep pushing along. For some reason the other day my shin was
hurting. The one that got hit by the bus. I don't know if it's
weather-related but it's kind of random.  And the skin above the
broken spot on my feet are so little sensitive when I rub it. So I
guess I just shouldn't rub it. I always have some sort of physical
pain going on through the days. But as always I just ignore it and
keep going.
 I think I maybe would be getting sick for some reason like the cold
or flu perhaps. My throat was hurting yesterday I took some cough
drops. And think I had some mucus in my nasal cavities this morning.
  This is the last week of the transfer and it's usually the toughest
week because people are always worried about will happen next week.
But as always I don't really care what happens but then again I do
have three transfers left and I think I might be called to be a
district leader or maybe a trainer. I'd rather be a trainer so I only
have to worry about one other person whereas a district leader has to
worry about five other people and their investigators. And there's
also the possibility that I am out of this area because I've already
been here for four months. I don't know where I would go may be
staying the zone, I have been here the majority of my mission. I could
go further out east, Elder Hart thinks zone leader because elder
McDonald, who's the zone leader now is going home.
  I won't worry about it now, leadership calls are...Thursday,
training calls are wed? Leadership call meeting is Friday. I've not
been with someone who went to be a leader or trainer before, so I
don't know what days are what, and elder Izatt was called a week
before. But I do know that transfer calls are Saturday night.
  I hear that the trainers do not get assigned to the trainee until
maybe five minutes before they meet them. The new missionaries come in
on Monday and the president and the APs talk to them and see who would
be a good trainer for that specific missionary and then make lots of
changes throughout the night and into Tuesday. So they called the
trainers on Wednesday before the new missionaries even get here and
then they assign them together at transfer meeting. Pretty cool I
guess.

  Mike is in Haiti right now, visiting his mom, and he will be there
for a week. I'm glad we got him dunked before he left. It seemed like
that wasn't going to happen as planned, because she said he was going
to get his passport on the 22. But he ended up leaving a week later.
I'm glad we got him baptized. That's super chill.

There's not much else to say I think. We gotta go out knocking for the
next three hours! Oh joy! I gotta stay positive or I'll hate it and
it'll go slow and miserable. 4 months left. I forgot to ask president
about that today, I'll talk to him later about it. Maybe next week in
his email, or even later during our interview.  We do one every other
transfer.

Alrighty then, see ya later!
- ELDER PECK