31 July – Last week in Harrisburg
So yeah, I'm leaving Harrisburg. It's been a great 4 1/2
months. This is a great area and great ward. I'm going to miss a bunch of
people here and I'm gonna miss all the great missionary work. So to Waxhaw I
go! I am really having a hard time focusing right now, I'm a little creeped out
with how much time I have left and this will probably be my last move in the
mission. I'll make sure to have a better email next week! Love ya!
24 July – So, I’m a little old
So..... I just realized that I don't have much time left.
Today we went to a trampoline park for district activity, the same trampoline
park I went to at the beginning of my mission...about 21 months ago... I also
got something in the mail this week. In this mission when you have about three
months left you get the Sprint letter, it basically is a piece of paper you
sign saying you give it your all your last three months. I haven't opened my
letter yet. Anyways, this week had its good parts and its stinky parts. Let's
just get the bad parts out of the way. So we finally got in contact with
Galliano's dad to get permission for him to get baptized...and his dad said no😭😭😭😭
We are all pretty sad about it. But we found a big family this week so we are
excited to start working with them. We had zone conference this week all the
way up in High Point. We couldn't find a ride so we stayed the night at the
Reedy Creek Elders' apartment and then in the morning got up and drove to High
Point. It was a really good meeting. There are a lot of missionaries going home
this transfer so a lot of missionaries gave departing testimonies. Then we had
to drive back, we got stuck in traffic, we dropped the elders off then went
home. By the time we got home it was about time to call it for the day. It took
way too long. I don't know who made the decision to do the conference all the
way up in High Point. So transfers are coming up again, so crazy. So by next
week I'll know what's going to be happening! So crazy. Well. Hopefully y'all
have a great week and stay classy!
17 July – Yo yo yo
So this week was good. We had district meeting again this
week and it went pretty well. Afterwards we went on exchanges. I stayed in
Harrisburg with Elder Brown. It was good. Man, I am drawing a blank on what
even happened this week. We taught a couple good lessons. We saw Karrington
again, Elder Brown and I did. It was a pretty good discussion. We didn't get to
teach very much but we talked for a while about what she expects out of us and
what we expect out of her, it was good. I think she will progress but it will
be a very slow progress. We saw Niva again this week, and had a good talk with
her. We also met with Joshua again this week. We brought the same member we
brought last week, and we had a ridiculously long discussion with him. It got
pretty heated and our member just got up and left the house after a certain
point. It was pretty bad. We were able to get things calmed down and finished on a good note, and the
member took us to Taco Bell afterwards. Well, we had a pretty good week, sorry
this email is pretty bogus, but I am drawing a blank, so sorry. I'll have a
good email next week. Love ya!
10 July – Elder Tumblerina
So Saturday night I took a little tumble, it didn't feel
very good. I was riding my bike and I was about to pull into our apartment
complex but some dude pulled out right in front of me, so I had to take some
evasive action. I missed the car, but I didn't miss the pavement, I crashed
pretty hard. Luckily I didn't hit my head, but I destroyed my pants and my
elbows. I was bleeding pretty bad, but things are okay now. I am still missing
a chunk out of my right elbow, but hopefully that heals up pretty quick-like.
Other than that, the week was still...eh...okay. It started out pretty good. We
found a few new people to try to teach and then Tuesday night it was the Fourth
of July. Elder Brown had MLC the next day so we stayed the night at their
apartment so we could take Elder Haycock for the day. The next day we were in a
tri companionship so that was pretty fun. We had fun. Thursday we had
interviews with President and district meeting. Everything went well. We were
the last to get interviewed so we were there forever. Well, yesterday was
pretty good. We had a few people at church, but things didn't go well with
James this week. He kind of told us off this week. He still wants to meet with
us, but not progress, kind of a bummer. Oh well, anything can happen. We get
the car back this week, so I'm excited. Well, hopefully y'all have a great
week!
3 July – Hello there
This week was pretty good. We are now in a tri share now,
which means we get the car for two weeks and bikes for only one week. I have
been in a car share the last six months so I'm glad we get the car a little
more as we head into summer. We get one week with a Chevy Cruze then one with a
2017 Chevy Malibu. It's definitely not a car I would want to own, but it is
pretty nice. I feel like I'm driving a robot. I never have to get the key out
of my pocket, I can lock and unlock it just by pushing buttons on the car
handles and it has a really nice display and backup camera. It also has a
feature that you could use that keeps you in between the traffic lines without
you even touching the wheel. Pretty crazy, and anyway, enough about the car. The
first half of the week wasn't super great just kind of a regular week. I went
on exchange with Elder Haycock in Harrisburg, that was pretty fun. He messed up
his ankle playing basketball a little over a week ago so he was walking around
on crutches so I had to help gimpy out all day, it was fun. So a couple weeks
ago we had dinner with a family in the ward, and the husband and boy were
talking about how they have to eat healthy all the time. I mentioned that I had
Lucky Charms for breakfast and the dad looked at me with big eyes and said,
"I haven't had those in forever!" So this week he came out with us on
teams and we prepared an extra large bag of Lucky Charms for him. We had a
pretty good laugh over that one. Saturday we had a super long talk with this
dude. He was a pretty nice guy, but he was bashing us hard core. We were there
for an hour and a half trying to answer some of the weirdest questions he would
ask. We are going to see him this next Saturday so pray for us😅.
We met an awesome new investigator last night. Her name is Karrington, and she
is great. We had kind of run out of people to see and we still had an hour left
before we had to get in. So we called her, she said she was sick, but if we
didn't mind risking getting sick. So we went right over and taught an awesome
lesson. It went really well. She's an MMA fighter and a criminal investigator!
Pretty awesome. We get to meet the coolest people out here on our missions,
it's great. Well, we had a pretty good week, hopefully we'll have a great next
week! Love y'all!
26 June – The week of complications
So yeah, this week, things got a little complicated this
week with all of our investigators. So James moved out of our area, two streets
out of our area...pretty stinky. We talked to bishop about it and he wants us
to move him over to Reedy Creek and hand him over to the other elders. Then we
went to tell James and he got mad and he said he doesn't want to move wards and
if he was coming to church, he was going to come with us, so now we have a
power struggle going on and we don't know what to do. We also have a boy that
moved in with returning member family and wants to get baptized but we first
have to get permission from his dad in Haiti, so that might take a while, just
stuff like that all week long. We are still busy, just things are complicated.
The highlight of the week was we were invited by a less active member to a
family party with her. It was pretty crazy. We were the only white people
there. It was great. Other than that, I can't really remember what happened
this week. Things are going well, we just keep working hard and hope for good
things to come. Love y'all!
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