Transfer Week

Well, another transfer is already over! Craziness!! This Friday is my year mark! I cannot believe I have already been out that long! I'm having a hard time accepting it! 

So we got transfer news. On Saturday we got a call from President. He asked Elder Garrett to be a district leader in Providence, a ward in south Charlotte. He's pretty excited. I am staying, but half of our district is leaving. Sister Johnson is leaving, Elder Washburn is going home, and Elder Turner is going. Those are my favorite people in the district. It's kind of sad. But I think I'm getting a pretty cool companion. His name is Elder Everett, he's from Alaska! Pretty cool. Anyway, he's my first companion who is younger in the mission than I am. He came out one transfer after I came. I've been a junior companion my whole mission, I guess it's time for me to step up a little😊. 

We've had an okay week. On Tuesday we did exchanges with the Denver Elders, I went to Denver with Elder Washburn, so I could go on exchange with him one more time before he goes home 😢. I'll miss that guy. We had a fun exchange. We were at the post office and a lady confronted us and talked at us for an hour. She had been a member of the church for 39 years but she is totally lost now. She found something she didn't really like about the church and it just festered and festered until she became totally anti. She yelled at us for an hour about how the church isn't true. It's kind of scary to think of how much she knew. We couldn't really defend ourselves because she knew so much about the church she would just throw some random unimportant fact at us as an excuse. Needless to say, we got really tired of it. It was sad to see. We got in the car though and we just started laughing, not that the situation was funny, it's just we couldn't believe how crazy that situation was. We talked about a bunch of her points and disproved them to each other. It's good to know that she was just one lost person and I've got a lot of great friends like Elder Washburn who will always stand by our beliefs. I'm glad Elder Garrett wasn't there, he gets really shaken up by anti. 

Anyway, the next day, Elder Washburn and I got up and drove to Lincolnton to pick up the Lincolnton Elders, right before we picked them up we stopped by Ross and got some matching ties and signed them.

We went to district meeting, which was good as always. Afterwards we took pictures and signed books and stuff and went to Cookout for lunch. 

We served at the Corner Table twice again this week. Everyone is getting to know us really well, and then Elder Garrett is leaving, oh well. Saturday finally came and you know what that meant . . . GENERAL CONFERENCE!!! I have never looked forward to conference as much ever before in my life, and it didn't let me down either. It was so good. A lot of basic principles were taught, and I just loved it! Some talks I really enjoyed were, well, there are too many to list, in all reality I loved them all! I really liked Cornish's talk, as well as Uceda's. I was so sad when it was over. Last night Elder Garrett started packing and I reviewed some talks that I had kind of spaced out during. Elder Garrett and I traded ties and today we went shopping for the last time together.
Oh well, I'm excited to work with Elder Everett. That's pretty much my week. The highlight being General Conference! Review the talks! They are great! Love y'all!