February 2, 2011

hey how are you guys doing today. I am doing great. This last week was a pretty good week. as you know, i went to pouso alegre. that was nice. i went with elder hansen, the assistent. that was pretty fun. i was able to work with a couple of new missionaries and help them out a bit. that was nice to be able to do some different parts of the work. it was really weird leaving my area for so long though. i didnt work in my area for 4 of the 7 days last week. but that is alright. at least we still had an alright week. i guess to answer dads question about my duties: as a zone leader, we just go to meetings monthly with the other zone leaders. then we exchanges with the missionaries in the zone. we also help with district meetings. we are in charge of keeping track of the numbers in all the areas. whatever questiong the zone has, we answer or fid answer out. it isnt that complicated. we just take care of the missionaries in the zone and get them to work. i dont know why i was asked to go to pouo alegre. that never happens as a zone leader.

yesterday was the start of a new transfer. I stayed in Jd Amanda. elder rowley was transfered and is the new traveling assistent. my new companion is Elder Castiglioni. He is brazillian for Bahia. He is a really spiritual guy. he is a really good guy. i am excited to work with him this transfer. it was nice to talk to everyone yesterday. they divided our zone. it was the biggest zone in the mission with 23 missionaries but now we have 12! that will be so much easier. i have got a great companion too. we are training two district leaders though. i was told to prepare elder castiglioni to be an assistent too. so i guess i will try my best even though i have no idea what it means to be an assistent or what he needs to know to be qualified to be an assistent. he has less than a year on the mission. he has got a lot of potential. he already has been a zone leader for 6 months so he really knows what he is doing. it will be a great transfer!

well that is about all that happened this week. i need to accept the spring track. i was hoping to do that now. thanks! you are the best!

love,

elder long