Feb 7, 2012

My new companion is great. his name is elder Sonntag, he is from Arizona. he is very musically talented.. we are singing in sacrament in two weeks.. notice the we (we will see how that goes.... first time for me). when i was with elder weyland, whenever we had 10 or fifteen min waiting for a meeting at the church i would play a simple hymn or two. i still don't really like the piano that much, but it has made me realize how much i miss playing the violin. then elder sonntag came in and he has added to that desire even more to play the violin. i am going to ask the pres. to see if i can have it sent here. i don't know how much it would cost to send something that big over here. so i guess now i am GIVING A HEADS UP for you guys to jump on it to send it over here if i can have it. tell me if there is going to be a problem with sending it and what not. and so we will have to see with that.

elder sonntag is great we are going to work together really good. of course there are small little things to work out for teaching and stuff but that's just expected with a new companion. other than that we get along just fine and dandy. he introduced me to object lessons. i always knew that they were good. but i have no idea why i didn't use them more in our lessons. i can already see the difference in our lessons. when tyler told me that our investigators are babies and just don't really know anything. how we need to teach simply and clearly. i always understood that but didn't really know how to go about it and teach. After a lot of things i learned from zone conference, district meetings, companionship study etc. there are two things that have helped. teach short, sweet, clear, don't blabber and just throw out doctrine. also, teach like you are teaching a little kid.. as easy as it sounds it's so hard.... of course with these two things there are many other.. hmmm...attachments on how to teach, what to teach , why etc.. all of the stuff to take into consideration. i am excited for this transfer and i feel like we are soooo close to unlocking our investigators doubts or concerns or whatever is delaying them.