A Pretty Quick-like Week

So this week is already gone, it seems like it went by really fast. We started off the week with a 2 day exchange. Elder Lopez and I dropped off Elder Richins at the Huntersville Elders' apartment and went home. We did Salvation Army service that day. The next day we went all the way down to South Charlotte for a meeting. We didn't want to waste miles, so we took the bus down there. It was a long bus drive. It took Elder Lopez and me 2 1/2 hours just to get there, then the same amount of time on the way back. On the way back the bus got super full, jam packed, and I was the only Caucasian person on the bus, and there had to be at least 60 people on that bus, that's Charlotte for ya. 

That night we tried to help a recent convert learn how to read, but we ain't no school teachers, so it was kind of a mess and it tried my patience. The next morning we finally picked up Elder Richins and we did service at the Salvation Army place again. We sort clothes there and we find some super funky clothes some people donate. We goofed around a little and put on some funny clothes. I'll send some pictures. 

The next day we had zone conference! Yay! We had a combined conference with the Hickory Zone, which was kind of strange, because I just left that zone, and I know that zone better than the one I am in now, the Gastonia zone. It was fun to meet up with some old Hickory zone buddies and chat with missionaries in my new zone that I didn't know before. 

Old Greensboro Buddies

We had a really good zone conference. We talked about thrusting in our sickle, and President actually brought out a sickle! Kind of funny. Sister Alexander gave a training about music and how important it can be in missionary work, she really loves music! And they also revealed the new Christmas initiative the church is doing for this year! I think it's called #LightTheWorld if I'm not mistaken. It's all focused around service this year, so I'm super pumped for it!

Saturday was a pretty busy day. We taught this guy named Michael about faith and the Holy Ghost, then had to run over to a part member family and try to commit the children to work to get baptized, then we had to run and take the bus back home. There was this lady on the bus, so crazy. There are ramps on the bus for people in wheelchairs to get on the bus, and a paraplegic person was trying to get on the bus so the bus lady was trying to lower the ramp for her, but this super rude lady was yelling at the bus driver to let her on so the bus driver had to put the ramp back for her to get on, then lower it again for the paraplegic. Then that lady just complained about this and that loudly the whole flipping bus ride. I wanted to slap her, and I can't imagine what bus drivers have to go through, there are so many crazy people in Charlotte. We were talking to a bus driver yesterday morning, and she was telling us all the horror stories that she'd had since she's been driving a bus. She said, "You name it, it's probably happened on a bus." Yikes. 

Tired on the bus

Saturday night we got some CookOut to start our fast. I like CookOut. I'm gonna miss it when I go back to Utah. Sunday was pretty good. We went to the group meeting down in Uptown, then went to the Ward. As always, there were good testimonies. Elder Lopez bore his testimony because it is the last testimony meeting on his mission. He goes home in less than two weeks. Kind of crazy. This transfer has gone by pretty quick! So much has happened. Well, that about wraps it up for this week! Bye-bye✋, have a great week! Love y'all!