Letters from Elder Spaulding: Week 40 - Life in Cottbus Week 21: Life in not Cottbus

Hello friends and family, this week will be short because I have many things to do. You will understand why shortly.

But first, the week. It started out normal. We knew that later in the week (Thursday) we would have a meeting in Berlin, so we planned accordingly.

Wednesday night I got a phone call from the Assistants to the President.

Them: "Elder Spaulding, tomorrow night you will be overnighting in Dresden-"

Me: "I have trainer trainee meeting with my son tomorrow!"

Them: "... Oh yeah... Well, you will need to do it anyway. President wants you to take part in MLC (Missionary Leadership Correlation or something) Friday morning. You will get to go to the temple, so you will need to be in Freiberg at 7."

So, that is how I got to make the fun trip from Cottbus to Berlin to Dresden to Freiberg to Cottbus in two days.

For the lazy:

You can see that it's a pretty big trip.

Trainer Trainee was great, though. I got to see a few friends, I didn't take many pictures, though. Enjoy some selfies with Sister Willis.

That night in Dresden there were 14 missionaries sleeping in a 4 man apartment. That was fun. Thankfully they were well equipped, so only two had to sleep on the floor.

I then got to wake up at 3:30 to be one of the first to shower as we tried to get 11 people showered and to the train station by 5:30.

The Temple was fantastic, I have now taken a name I found through Baptism, Confirmation, Initiatory, and Endowment. I can't wait to do the sealing after the Mission!

MLC was a nightmare, I was just trying to stay awake the whole time. I did get a great quote from President though.

"Alaska has no internet!?!"

No, I will not give you the context. It's funnier that way.

Anyway... For those of you who follow, MLC is for Zone Leaders. I found out that I am going to Hannover as a Zone Leader! My new comp is Elder Hughes! More on that next week. I am feeling pretty inadequate, but I know that the Lord will qualify me!