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| Elder Skinner took this on my IPad and I found it in Newton-Conover. He's a good guy. |
So this week was the week of transfers. So I am now in
Newton-Conover! It's a lot different than my last area. Summerfield was super
rich and everyone was well off. This area is a lot more like Concord. We are really close to downtown Newton. Newton is a pretty
smallish city, and surrounding the whole downtown area is old, lower class
houses. But instead of African Americans the surrounding city is mostly
rednecks. But I keep having flashbacks of Concord, it's kind of funny. Well,
last Monday we didn't do too much, but we did go to Hops burger bar. I guess
it's one of the best burgers in the nation and I was ten minutes away from the
house, so we just had to go before I left. It was super good. Filled me up right
good too. Then I finished packing that night, said some goodbyes, then the next
morning, Brother Bellamy drove us down to Charlotte. It was pretty hard to
leave Summerfield. We got to The Mission Office in Charlotte and said some
goodbyes to some missionaries that were going home. There were a ton of Elders
that went home. Just to name a few I've served around, Elder Pottle went home,
Elder Wilde went home and a bunch of other great elders. Even my
mission dad, Elder Nelson went home😢. I got to talk to him
a little before we had to leave. It's so weird to think my trainer is home!
Yikes. I then put all my belongings in Brother Turner's car from the
Newton-Conover Ward and left with him. He's a good guy. He's always willing to
help the missionaries. We got to Denver, NC and we picked up Elder Garrett,
who was working with the the Elders there. We then went to Jack-in-the-Box for
lunch, then he dropped us off at our apartment, and I'm now in Newton-Conover!
This week has been kind of rough. Elder Garrett had only been in Newton for
less than two weeks. He had been emergency transferred to Newton near the end
of the transfer, so basically neither of us know barely anything about the
area. So we are whitewashing. Without wifi as well. So everyday we have to go
to the library downtown to plan, to send in numbers, to sync our Area Book and
LDS Tools, to map out the area and members/formers, and/or message someone on
Facebook. What makes it worse is that we were on bikes this whole week! It was
very hot and very humid this week. Right now I am exhausted and so ready to get
the car. In this area we have a car share with the Hickory Sisters. So one week
on, one week off. So I will do more biking here than in any other area, and it
is also the biggest area I've been in. Doesn't make much sense if you ask me.
But oh well, at least the members are good here. The Ward is pretty good sized
and a lot of good members. But the Ward has a lot of interesting people in it
too. Newton-Conover Ward is a little crazy to tell the truth, so I think I'll
fit right in😜.
We had district meeting this week on
Friday. It went pretty well. It's good to be in the same district as Elder
Washburn again. He's my district leader now. In our district we have us, the
Newton-Conover Sisters (We have to share the Ward with the STLs again🙄😏), both sets of the
Lincolnton Ward Elders (Lincolnton and Denver) and the Hickory Zone Leaders. A
pretty big district again, but it's mostly Elders and the Sisters are awesome so that's a plus. We aren't really
teaching any solid people right now now, so we are mostly going around, trying
to see members and introduce ourselves since we are so new to the area. We do
have a part member/less active couple we are working with. The wife says she
wants to get baptized, but she has some things holding her back. They said they
were going to be at church this Sunday, but of course, they weren't☹️. Oh well. We are just concentrating on part member families
and getting referrals from the members.
Elder Garrett is a good guy. He's a
little different, but not bad I guess. We get along pretty well, no big
problems. He's a really deep guy, he's always going in depth about spiritual
topics. In companionship study, when we share what we studied in personal
study, I probably talk for about 5 minutes and he goes on for about 20
sometimes.
We had a pretty wet week this week. Almost everyday
will start off sunny and hot and then in the later afternoon/evening, dark
clouds roll in and we get thunderstorms. Well on Saturday, we had just the same
thing, but much larger. We just got out of the apartment after lunch and were
biking around when these nasty black clouds started rolling in. We thought it
would just pass by, it looked like it was going to blow right past us. We had a
good number of people tell us we should find somewhere to take cover. It just
started getting darker and darker and the thunder was getting louder and the
lightning was clearly visible. Then the winds started to pick up. We had some lady yell at us from her porch, "Y'all
better get in some shelter boys or else y'alls will jus blew away! Quick quick!
The guy said 60 mile per hour winds!" So we decided at that point we should probably follow the people's advice. So we booked it to
the library and I'm so glad we did. Just minutes after we had got inside, it
started pouring and lightning started going crazy real close. The wind and the
rain was so intense at one point, we couldn't even see out of the window at
all. It was pretty crazy, and it lasted a long time too. We had to take cover
in the library for over and hour. It was pretty big storm.
Well, everything is
going well, and I hope things only get better! Love y'all!
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| From front to back: Elder Garrett, Sister Johnson, Sister Marshall, Elder Washburn, Elder Holman, Elder Turner, Elder Piutau, and me! |
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