Stasis (9/9/2019)

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Dear friends and family,

We've settled in for the transfer. Things are going decently well. Some things keep getting delayed, like the next lesson with our golden girl, Kelly, or our main guy on date, Bruce, to beat his smoking habit and find work. Just being patient.

Kind of just thinking about how I can continue improving. I've feared that what I've really been doing rather than improving is stand still. Kinda feel like I've just been in a state of stasis. I wish I better knew how to be in a state of constant improvement. Is that even possible? Perhaps not.

But life is fine. I try to let things just slide off of me.

I feel too enclosed in myself. People don't really ask me to share, and I don't really know how to share very well, and when I do it doesn't seem to accomplish very much anyway.

People on the outside of mission life are pretty busy. I feel like we're all turned to our own endeavors. Cool things like school and business and relationships and travel--worthy things, yet they seem to separate us all. I think people used to do more things together. Even when we DO do things together now, sometimes we still feel separate in a strange way.

I suppose I just feel like there ought to be ways to bring people together more than we usually are. Seriously, this world even just in my short lifetime has become way less inclined towards positive human interaction in many ways for a multitude of reasons.

(Those are the P-day ramblings of a missionary who doesn't get to interact on a non-professional level with many people. Take them or leave them.)

I hope to hit the ground running when I return home, find something worthwhile I can do, forget the bad stuff from the past, make good things happen. I wish that on all of you as well. Maybe you're already doing that and if so, congratulations. I want your advice!

Love,
Elder Gallagher

PIC: A newborn kitten we met. I could start a whole album of kittens I've seen on my mission at this point.

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