Short Q&A

Short email today...he mostly answered a few of these questions:

• What are your social media rules?
• What's the ceremony to mark one year in your mission?
• What differences have you noticed between your new mission president and your old one?
• How are your investigators doing? 
• Have you picked up any Spanish? :)
• What percentage of missionaries in your mission are really hard working and what are the craziest stories you've heard about missionaries? (Tonight at dinner we were talking about some of the wilder stories from our missions, like the elders on Shetland in dad's mission who grew beards and got busted because their faces were sunburned on the top but white where they had shaved, haha.)
• What are you most grateful for after one year on your mission?
• What are the biggest lessons you've learned this past year?
• Did you get your birthday package yet? (And I guess related, when is zone conference?)

Hey all!

Thanks so much everyone for the birthday wishes! I got the package, and I loved the notes from everyone.

So for social media rules, there's quite a couple different rules. I can message people on Facebook and messager if they're in my area for finding and teaching people, communicating with people we're teaching, making posts and stories. We can use it to talk to family and people from back home on p days, like any emails. 

There's a tradition to burn an item of clothing for each landmark date you hit. For 6 months, a tie, year, a shirt, 18 months are pants and 2 years a suit. 

Luckily, our mission is very obedient. There aren't a lot of crazy things that happen in our mission, and they haven't happened her for a long time. 

This week we had zone conference, and we found a new investigator. Her name is Wendy, and she's pretty cool! We're going to be teaching her on Thursday. 

Love you all so much! Have a good time in England! 

Elder Marsh