Another transfer?!! Zone Leader

Hey, I'm an LZ now. And I had no idea how stressful it was. But now I'm the most stressed guy I've ever been. And I love it. 
It's strange to hear accounts of Dad, evaluating himself at my age. Dad seems like...such a wise man to me, it's strange to hear him repeating things I'm thinking about many new missionaries that arrive here every transfer. I see them teaching way better than I did, speaking the language better than I did, understanding the gospel itself much, much better than I did. I took...at least a year to begin understanding just what it meant to be responsible, and to organize myself. When I did that, I removed much of the pavilion that was blocking my view, and I began to do an intensive study about the most basic principles of the gospel itself. I started to open my spiritual eyes.
Dad seems to think that this same effect took a good long while for him. Mom, I always looked to you as a beacon for wanting to do what's right. I think I inherited much of the righteous desire that I feel from you. I let my head and the childish habits I had get in the way a lot of times...and most of my mission has been the removal of those things, and realize, as the people of Corinth realized, that there was no way I could continue with those things and keep moving forward. 
I taught a couple that fought about some really, really dumb things this last week. They're thinking of splitting because of it. And I realize that if my own parents had let such silly things get in the way of what was important, I wouldn't be the same guy. I probably wouldn't have had the same education. I wouldn't have had the foundation I had. I think it's incredible, on the mission I've come to have a growing certainty that the faithfulness is almost more important than who's actually involved. Same thing as our covenants. Same thing as any other branch of the Church. If you stick to your duties, everything else will be added on. It's...probably a useful lesson for later on.
But yeah. I look forward to providing the company you'll need after the mission. You will love the brothers and sisters that so willingly give us missionaries their own, and are taking care of us so well. I expect to cry as you meet them. I'm feeling like crying right now, considering the possibility. I love these people. They have a really, really hard time sometimes. And I know that the only way I can do everything possible for them is to do God's work and let His plan take care of these wonderful people.
I hope Shawn realizes soon the heavenly help he gets from you two. It might take until the mission...but he'll realize it eventually. Just keep doing your part...and you'll have the same satisfaction I see expressed in your emails with him. Don't every give up! That's what my "dad" here on the mission taught me.
Anyway!
Love,
-Erich