Week 19

This week was transfer week, and it's goodbye to Elder Holbrook. I've officially gone 4 for 4 with transfers and getting a new companion each time.


MONDAY, everyone knew that transfers were coming, and the missionaries waiting on Visas would be going to their original assignments Thursday, so everyone spent a lot of time bringing their transfer journals around and having people sign them. It's sad to see them all leaving, but I know that they will all be diligent missionaries, and that the Lord will bless them for their efforts in their called areas.


TUESDAY was a bit of an interesting day because stuff we weren't expecting just kept popping up. While we were out tracting, we knocked on the door of some very enthusiastic Jehovah's Witnesses. It was interesting to see how their beliefs really do have some truth but are missing some of the fundamental principles of the gospel. As we were talking with them, we were starting to run out of time, so we testified of the truthfulness of the restored gospel and then headed out, but you could tell that they felt the spirit as we spoke with them. After that, we were about to start tracting another area when we got a call from a less active member asking us to come help set up lights. It was a bit odd to just do randomly in the day, but I'm glad we were able to help them out.


WEDNESDAY was mostly a normal day with a decent amount of tracting and talking with people. At the end of the day came the exciting part of getting transfer news. To both mine and Elder Holbrook's surprise, he was getting transferred to the Alamo reservation, and I am getting a new companion, Elder Ty Stanger. It's sad to see him go, but he'll have fun on the reservation.


THURSDAY we spent a lot of time while we were tracting talking about the area he was going to. A lot of the afternoon and evening were spent just visiting with members so Elder Holbrook could say goodbye and share his testimony with them for the last time.


FRIDAY was a lot of the same as Monday and Thursday, just saying goodbye to a lot of people.


SATURDAY was a long day with little work. We started off the day early with heading to the transfer site to meet our new companions and head to our new area. After I met up with Elder Stanger, and we went back to the apartment, we did studies, and then we were right back out to the stake's nativity activity so we could supervise. Then after that, we headed to dinner and then the ward Christmas party. It was a fun day, but it felt very weird not doing any finding in person.


SUNDAY was a lot of just introducing Elder Stanger to people at church and having lessons with our friends. The lessons went really well with us talking about the sacrament with one and the plan of salvation.


My spiritual thought this week comes from Ether chapter 12, verse 4, which says, "4 Wherefore, whoso believeth in God might with surety hope for a better world, yea, even a place at the right hand of God, which hope cometh of faith, maketh an anchor to the souls of men, which would make them sure and steadfast, always abounding in good works, being led to glorify God." Having faith in Christ is the strongest foundation you can have in life, and when you allow it to take hold in your life, you can overcome all trials.


1-3: families we said goodbye to
4: final game of apartment pickleball
5: new comp, Elder Stanger




Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Week 43

Image
This email won't be too long because the only thing that really happened this week was that both Elder Shawcroft and I got a stomach bug which knocked us out for the week. It was a rough couple of days, but we're back in shape and are excited to return to the work. MONDAY we had our last p-day of the transfer down in Santa Fe. We played a bunch of dodgeball with the whole zone for a bit and then a handful of us started playing the one board game called 7 Wonders with one of the senior missionaries. The rest of the day was pretty normal, except at the very end when Elder Shawcroft started having symptoms from the stomach bug. TUESDAY we just stayed inside and let Elder Shawcroft work on recovering. WEDNESDAY we managed to have a phone lesson with one of our friends we had been teaching for a bit, Anna. It went really well and they are loving the gospel so much. Then that night I ended up getting hit with the stomach bug which was really rough. We also found out that both of us a...
Read more

Week 24

Image
This was a really good week, but a lot of it is kind of blurred together. There's a day where I'm thinking that we talked to a certain person just yesterday, but it was really three days ago. At least that means the days are going quickly. MONDAY was a fun and sad day. At zone p-day, we had a lot of fun playing basketball, board games, and just hanging out, but we also said goodbye to a sister who was going home early. It's sad to see missionaries go home early in every case, but I know that the Lord has a plan for each and every one of us. At dinner that night, we got to hold some snakes that this member family had. It was pretty cool to be able to hold them and feel them, but Elder Stanger was not as excited as I was. For the last bit of the day, we were able to have a lesson with the bishop of one of our wards and a less active family that we had been meeting with, and you could just feel the bishop's love for them. It's always amazing just how much the gospel un...
Read more

Week 73

Image
Don't worry, I didn't miss a week; we just had our p-day moved to Christmas Eve! This email will be slightly longer, but next week's will be a bit shorter. MONDAY we made cookies with our district before everyone got together for p-day. We didn't have a mixer, so they just made me use my hand to mix the dough. TUESDAY we had a couple of really good lessons with some of the people we met. I also had a meeting with all the other social media trainers in the mission to help get them prepared for the new transfer. WEDNESDAY nothing went as we planned. We had everything set up a certain way that morning during daily planning, and by the end of the day, our schedule was completely different! THURSDAY I took a bit of time getting some presents and letters ready for my last and current mission presidents. FRIDAY we woke up with no hot water in the apartment, which really sucked when we had to get showered! This last transfer had mixed up the zone a bunch, so I had a good time g...
Read more