Hello hello!
So my first transfer in field has come to an end. . . But
nothing has changed except that we got an addition to our companionship! Elder
Slaugh from Vernal, Utah is now the third member of the Georgetown 3 area. Or
am I the third member? . . I don't know. All I know is that I was guaranteed at
least six weeks state side. But now that six weeks is up. I know that the other
Elders in my district who had their calls changed that were serving in Spokane
are now in Ukraine. So I have even less of a clue of when (or if) I am leaving
for Ukraine.
So we are having some pretty interesting changes in our
mission. The Methuen and Lawrence areas in our Zone (Exeter South) as of Nov. 6
will no longer be apart of the New Hampshire Manchester Mission. They will be
under the Boston Mission. And those wards, the Lawrence and Methuen wards, will
be taken from our stake (Exeter Stake) and combined with other wards from he
Concord Stake to creat the new Shoreline Stake. So yeah. It's all fun.
Elder Redford with his limited Spanish has been able to
contact quite a few people. He has gotten return appointments, shared videos,
and past out copies of the Book of Mormon to many people. Usually this wouldn't
be that impressive. But when you remember that he has been serving for twenty
one months in English and has in the past six weeks been switched to Spanish
and try to learn on his own, it's pretty cool.
Elder Slaugh is one transfer ahead of me. He was
previously serving in the Lawrence Ward and was called as an Spanish speaking
Missionary. So he has the MTC and two transfers of Spanish experience under his
belt.
He is going to be a huge help to us in this area.
I finished the pink sweater for Eve, Lana's older sister,
and she was super excited about it. And when we went over to give it to them,
we got to meet Jenny's parents. That family is so primed to be taught the
Restored Gospel. It is just do hard with absolutely no miles to use to go up to
Ipswich and visit them more.
Elder Redford wanted me to make him a pair of mittens. So
I did! And now Elder Slaugh wants a pair too. So I guess I will have to knit
for him ;) Yesterday we were trying to contact a referral when Elder Slaugh
expressed that he wanted to go see the ocean. So we walked over by the beach
and stood on some rocks and took pictures (don't worry. We were well within
missionary rules). It was nice. But the cool part was that walking back to the
road we met a man named Dave. He was pretty nice to us and talked with us for a
while. He didn't accept our invitation to learn, but it wasn't a failure.
I am saddened to report that Leviticus is probably dead.
A few weeks back when we came down and looked at the
apartment, we were sitting in the car and I saw next the car walking down the
street, was a seagull. He didn't once flap his wings or anything during the
seeming long time we watched him. He just walked. And even when cars were about
to hit him, he just walked. So I named him Leviticus. Don't ask we why, I don't
knew why either. So whenever we see a seagull sitting on a chimney or a power
line, we figure it's probably Leviticus the walking seagull who walked up to
the chimney or power line. While come ping home from getting groceries today,
we saw a dead seagull in the middle of the road. Elder Redford says that
Leviticus is probably the only seagull that could die like that because he just
walked out on the busy road and got hit. I however thing that he isn't dead but
lives.
Anyway.
This week was a great week. Things have been picking up a
lot more.
It's hard work, but it is worth it.
Love you all.
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