What? I'm done?

Well, there goes two years. My mission is over. I'm almost all packed up and ready to take off tomorrow morning to the mission office. Time flies so quickly. The mission in North Carolina has been one of the best experiences of my life. I've been able to meet so many awesome people and I wouldn't trade it for anything. This week was great. I had my last zone conference and bore my departing testimony and I am proud to say, I was able to get through the whole thing without crying, I am actually pretty surprised. This week I've pretty much been out of it, but I am excited for the future. Love y'all!

My Last Bike Week

16 October

Yup, this last week was my last bike week. Which honestly, I'm not really going to miss. I mean, I like riding bikes and all, but when it is your only form of transportation and the roads are not exactly the safest, you kind of get sick of it. So yeah, I am freaking out a little. I'm having a harder time sleeping at night because my mind just keeps racing about how my time is running out. It's pretty scary. This week was pretty hot, especially for October, I should have known since it was my last bike week. Things are good in Waxhaw, there was a big festival over the weekend and since we are in downtown Waxhaw, our yard was filled with cars and we could hear everything from our house. Pretty fun. So missionary work wise, things ain't so hot, all of our investigators are falling off and we are having a hard time finding new people to teach, but things will work out eventually. Well, love y'all, talk to ya from NC for the last time next week!

What's up?

9 October

So this week was okay. Tuesday was pretty crazy though. We got called in to the mission office to fix our Tiwi machine in our car, so we drove all the way to the mission office. It took a while to fix, but we got to hang out with the mission office couples, and they are great. Afterwards we went to lunch with a couple Elders in the Reedy Creek Ward, I got to see Elder Haycock again! We then had to go to Firestone because our car guy said we needed to so we thought it would be an hour thing then we would get the car back and go home. But they wanted to keep it overnight so we were stranded in Weddington. It took three hours for us to find a ride and we went straight to dinner, then to meetings at the church that night. So we basically got nothing done that day. Oh well. We went on exchanges on Friday, I went up to Sharon with Elder Berryhill. It was good. Um, well, that's about it. The week was good, everything's about the same, livin the dream. Love ya!

General Conference Week!

Man General Conference was great! Other than that this week was sort of okay. I went on exchanges on Wednesday with Elder Rives in Sharon. It was good. 

I loved the talks in General Conference. We watched the Saturday morning session at a member's house and they served us brunch right beforehand. It was really good. The next session we watched at the church and then we went to the priesthood session that night. The next morning we were able to watch conference in our house by streaming it from our tablets. Then we went to a member's house for the afternoon session. It took forever. We had a couple investigators over at their house to watch it with us. He had so many random questions that we had to pause General Conference and address the questions. They had to leave at 7:00 and by the time 7:00 came around, we hadn't even listened to half of the session, so we had to watch the rest of it after they left. We didn't get out of there until 8:30. But it was good. I'll have to review the sessions, especially the last one. But I liked Elder Nelson's talk. He mentioned his granddaughter, Olivia, who went to school with me! Kind of funny. Anyways, sorry I don't have any pictures for this week. I'll try harder to find some time to take photos😕. Love y'all!

Bike Week

Yeah, this week kind of stunk. We biked all over the place and had no dinners. It kind of stunk. Tuesday we did exchanges and I got to be with Elder Johnsen in Waxhaw and it was fun. But that was about it for the week. We had district meeting on Wednesday, and that went well, and then we had interviews with President on Friday, and afterwards we were stranded at the stake center for a couple hours until we were able to get some other missionaries to give us a ride home. Well, that's about it for the week. Today marks one month left of my mission, so crazy. Hopefully my last four weeks will be better than this one 😑 Love y'all

The Last Transfer

So this week I started my last transfer. I'm tripping out a little bit. But it will be a good transfer. 

On Tuesday we dropped off Elder Lewis and picked up Elder Fife. I'll miss Lewis, but Elder Fife is a good guy. He is from Sandy, Utah and went to one of my rival high schools, Jordan, and we are different in a lot of ways. He's a die hard Ute fan, I'm a die hard BYU fan. He's a huge soccer fan, I'm a huge football fan. He likes Coke and Pepsi, I'm more of a Dr. Pepper guy, among some other things, but we get along. He's been out for about 13 months, so he's pretty experienced. We weren't able to have many teaching opportunities this week, but from what I've seen, he knows his stuff and he'll totally be able to take over the area after this transfer. 

This week we had some interesting contact attempts. We went to go contact a Bible referral we got and we drove all the way out into the boonies. We got to the address and couldn't find a driveway leading up to the house. The house was literally surrounded by soybean crops and had a tree growing through the front porch. So we wasted a lot of miles going there, but oh well. We also went to another house to contact a less active. We walked up to the door and there were spider webs EVERYWHERE. Usually spiders don't really freak me out too much, and I wasn't totally creeped out. But when you are standing on a porch, literally surrounded by spider webs and gigantic palm sized spiders, you get a little antsy. I wish I had taken pictures cause some of those spiders were nuts! But Elder Fife wanted to leave as soon as possible😊, which I understand. 

This week I also was asked to give a talk in sacrament meeting on the Book of Mormon, so I was chill with that. It's a pretty easy subject to talk on. I enjoyed preparing for the talk, and I think it went pretty well. 

So yeah, that's the week, Irma's gone, and we just got a little bit of rain and wind but nothing crazy. So yeah, love y'all!

Irma is Coming

Elders Huff & Lewis

So this week everybody was freaking out about the hurricane that was going to directly hit us, supposedly it's a huge one too. Luckily it moved out west so it won't directly hit us, so we'll be fine, but I have to admit, I almost wished it more directly hit us, that would have been exciting. We still will be seeing some effects of the storm though. Right now it is still super dark outside, the clouds are super thick and we'll be getting a lot of rain and wind, but nothing crazy. 

Oh, so transfers. We got calls this morning and it turns out Elder Lewis is going to be going to Gibsonville NC, right outside of Greensboro. 😢 Being with Elder Lewis was a lot of fun, he's a stud and I'll miss him. I'm getting a guy named Elder Fife. We'll see. 

This week was great, we found a couple new investigators and both of them are from Africa! You know they are great if they are from Africa, literally the best people to teach. 

This week a guy in this ward left on his mission to Guatemala. He had been hanging out with us a lot. He helped us out with rides and stuff a lot. Anyways, seeing him go just reminded me of how nervous I was going into the MTC almost two years ago. It is so hard to believe that my time here on my mission is coming to a close. I've got one transfer left and I'm determined to make it a great transfer and go out with a bang. I'm actually about as nervous about going home as I was coming out here. Yikes, time flies when you are having fun. Love y'all! Have a great week!

Elders Huff & Fife