Gradually getting settled - September 2020
This month we are still learning so much, but every little tiny step that we feel we have done before or are staring to understand better or have some familiarity feels like a victory, and that's great - we'll take it! We started this past transfer with a mission tour with Elder Martino and Elder Matt Holland who oversee our area. We had enough cases of Covid in the mission that it was all virtual. All of our meetings were over zoom, but they're so good at getting participation from everyone in the meetings and making everything so interesting. They teach really, really well. Mark and I learned so much just by participating in these meetings with them. They had a couple of meetings just with us and a couple with the missionaries. By the end, I felt very aware of our inexperience and inadequacies and felt kind of stupid and a little overwhelmed, but then in our last meeting with Elder Martino and Elder Holland, they just expressed confidence in us and love for us. It was inc...