Good and bad news this week family... GOOD NEWS You will still be seeing me on the 17th of August as planned. BAD NEWS they denied my second extension..... Back story???
Yes you read that right. I tried... well more I joked about extending again and then it almost became a thing... So we were in the office for my comps regular interview (my last interview is scheduled for the 16 of August at 1:30 in case you were wondering and wanted your mind blown) and him and president walk out of the office and then the aps start telling him about how a mini missionary won't be able to serve and they didn't know what they were going to do so me being my ridiculous self said President you got me until the 7th of September and he said without hesitation what about the 28th... I said sorry pres but I have school. Then he explained how an extension works and how he has to call the missionary department and then they decide whether someone can extend or not and I told him to do it. Then he had another interview so he went in his office and I put a sticky note on the door that said Elder Szabo Sep 7th and told the aps to bug him about it and didn't think anything was going to happen because of it. Then a couple days later we got a text from president saying he'd talked to the missionary department and it was too late to change the ticket without charge so it got denied... I was THIS CLOSE to getting a second extension but guess the Lord wants me to go home so home I will go. 2 more weeks...
Other than that... we should be having a baptism this week. Unfortunately It's breaking my streak of having a baptism the last week of the transfer but beggars can't be choosers. He's doing really good. He's a 12 year old kid and can't pay attention to anything and only really comes for his sister but why did all of us come to church when we were kids... I know I wasn't coming for the 2 hours of lessons and meager servings.... Now I fast every week and try to get everyone to stay for 3 hours so how the tables have turned... He'll become a really strong member he just needs to get his own testimony like we all need too. Speaking of church I had to teach combined 3rd hour this week and may or may have not forgotten I had it until an hour before church during my studies but AT LEAST I remembered! I don't like giving lessons as a missionary because my style is to shift attention and have videos and activities and things like that and it's hard when I don't have any access to any of that stuff. I would give it a 6 out of 10. Not terrible but not life changing. It was on the manual the church released about teaching in the way of the Savior... The bishop got up and said the lesson will be by Brother so and so and the missionaries aka me. and the guy stands up so I think oh he actually prepares something but he just stood up for about 2 minutes and went off about something then turned the time over to me... Good thing I remembered.
The other big news is that we got p day trips taken away. Not entirely but we can't go on long trips anymore... Long story but we were mostly to blame because of all our travels. Lots went into it one of the things being our district disunity but that's a story for another time. We may or may not have freaked out last night when we found of why it all went down. My comp called president to see the rules and why it happened and we got shut down on going on our trip today and basically any other ones we had planned so my last couple p days are going to be boring. We went bowling today... Lame. What do you do.
That's about it. I have two weeks. Be grateful if I have anything to write about next week I won't say anything in 2 weeks because i'll see you all 3 days after. So you only have to read one more email after this...
I love you all and will see you in t minus 16 days... #trunkyisadisease
