Interviewed by an Apostle?

Hey family,

This has been the busiest most stressful week of my life! I didn't even have time to stop and think. Since one of the Missionaries who had problems was in our zone, we had to deal with all the garbage and other consequences. One of them was in our ward, so they closed that area and now we are over the whole ward. We also had to tell the members in our ward and in our zone what happened. So we've been trying our hardest to get to know their area in a matter of days and take over for them. We also had to go to their apartment and clean it out. Lots of stress.

We also had zone leader council this week because it's the end of the month. On top of that we have had to come up with and set new goals for our zone this month and train the district leaders on what we learned in ZL council. We also had to prepare for zone meeting which is held once a month. Oh yeah, and I had to prepare a talk for sacrament meeting. They also are allowing us to get DVD players and TVs in our apartments to watch the District DVDs, so we had to make sure our zone members got enough TVs and DVD players from the members. The other set of Missionaries had a baptism planned for this weekend, so we had to plan that last second and explain why one of them wouldn't be there. We had to do all of these things plus other zone leader duties, all while trying to do missionary work. It's been crazy! There are still a lot of extra things we have to finish up doing, but this week should be a lot better. Last night I took a deep breath, sat on the couch, and just relaxed. It felt so good.

Life is good other than having 0 time to do anything for myself. It stinks having extra responsibility, but it is pretty cool to be in the loop on everything. My apartment is so nice. It's huge (for a missionary apartment) has 2 bathrooms, a dishwasher, and a fridge with a water dispenser (that's the only thing I could think to call it). My companion is Elder Brickey, and we live with Elder Monk and Elder Elder (no joke that's his name) and they are all awesome. At first I was disappointed with the ward because I loved the last one so much, but I'm starting to love the members here. It's kind of nice not having to worry about which members are in your area now that we cover the whole ward. I'm loving being a missionary, like always, and am glad to be here.

This month is going to be awesome, because we have Elder Paul Johnson of the Seventy coming to speak to us this weekend, and at the end of the month we have 2 surprise General Authorities visiting us. I'm almost positive that at least one of them is going to be an Apostle, because we were told that we may not be able to shake their hands, and that we have to leave the church grounds within 10 minutes after the meeting. It's going to be AWESOME!!! Whoever will be coming will also be interviewing The Assistants, Zone Leaders and select District Leaders. I could be interviewed by an Apostle! I'll probably pee my pants... anyway, hopefully I'll find out through the grapevine who's coming soon. I love you all so very much!

Love, Elder Tilley