September 14, 2020 | Week 1 in the field |

 I BECOME A MISSIONARY

whats up everybody! welcome to ELDER HASSELLS WEEKLY EMAIL!!!! this week we will be covering my online mtc, my plane ride aaannnd my first few days in my mission areaaaa!! 

okay so i started out the mtc with a not so good hot attitude about it and i was just gonna make it through so i could start my real mission. but when i started it was actually not bad and actually really enjoyed the mtc and learned a lot. we were online for about 7 hours eveyday except p day and sunday so it was long but my district was cool and the teachers were good. the district was even able to meet up a couple times in person so that was fun. 

then it was time to fly out and it was kinda sad. there were 10 other elders and a sister all going to boston too. i should mention that there was a freak wind storm this morning and a lot of the flights were getting delayed. long story short we waited in the plane for like 7 hours then the wind blew a luggage cart into us and the plane became disabled. so i got to see my family again! i had to say goodbye again and headed out on wednesday with no difficulties. 

now im in boston and they assigned me my companion and that im serving in rhode island. elder stokes is my new comp and hes cool and works hard. the next day we wake up at 5 (an hour and half before we need to.. AND we do this every day AND work out at 4:30) and work out till 7. i think we taught 3 lessons that day and i asked someone to be baptised, crazy i know, but he said yes haha. so you know who needs training. 

im dedicating this paragraph solely to the food. im in a four elder appartment and they eat literally only eggs, potatos, fish, oats and protien powder. the variety is blowing my mind, but i made some killer hash browns and scrambled eggs, and my sunflower seeds are keeping me alive. also the water tastes like mold for some reason but thats fine. 

soooo thats about it ive been teaching a ton and have asked two people to be baptised (second one was an accident but he was down) and im getting legendary at mini basketball but you know whatever.

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