It has begun. Transfer 10 in the mission field. Beginning of the transfers are so hectic even if you are not being transferred. Tuesday morning we had to trio with Elder Willden aka Chef J Willy for three days before he got to pick up a new missionary he is training. We were slammed with lessons, meetings, and getting things ready for this transfer. I mentioned in a past email that we have two new Sister Training Leaders we are working with and they are nice with it. We have strong leadership in the GR. Big transfer incoming.
Elder Willden is from a small town in Texas and he loves playing poker. Elder Willden trioed with us for three nights, two out of the three nights from 9-10:30pm we ran Texas Holdem. We used crackers and macaroni noodles as chips. I got destroyed the first night, but the second night I out bluffed Elder Willden and took home the title. If any of the boys are reading this, I am still nice with it at poker.
Thursday was exhausting. It is so hard to get to bed on time when you have more than just your companion staying with you. So many late night shenanigans. We got to bed at like midnight on Wednesday night which didn't help since Thursday was slammed packed. We drove to Lansing in the morning which was around an hour drive. There are 14 new missionaries that just entered the field. It is the same time of year, but last year where I came in. Being around all those trainers/trainees made me want to train again. In the Grand Rapids Zone we only have one new missionary coming, but it's still exciting. We had chick fil a for lunch. I got to see 4 of my companions there since Elders Nelson, Fonnesbeck, Elliott, and Woolsey were there. We drove back and were back in the Grand Valley area around 2:30pm.
The remainder of our day was spent with Luc Majeski. He is an 18 year old kid who recently got endowed and just submitted his mission papers. He doesn't have many friends and he loves doing the work with us. We had a couple lessons, met with some members, got cursed at in the rain, and Luc decided to buy us chick fil a. We didn't want to ruin it for him and say no because we had it for lunch. Elder Woolsey and I said to each other afterward that we want to go a while without eating Chick fil a since we felt so sick. I have to touch on this to. This whole transfer Elder Woolsey and I love the movie speed racer. We love talking about it. We asked Luc the question,"what is your favorite movie?" His response was the perfect. "My favorite movie is Speed Racer." Elder Woolsey and I screamed at the top of our lunges because we were so amped that, that was his favorite movie. It was a funny moment.
To conclude Thursday night we ran ball with 15 non members. Every Thursday night one of the members in our ward hosts a pickup game at the stake center and we thought we would try it out. Who knew that huge 40 year old men would school you in ball (sorry dad). I was on the winning team of course, but i didn't contribute much since everyone was way bigger than me. We were there from 8:30-10pm. We left dripping in sweat about ready to hit the floor with how tired we were from that whole day.
Saturday was special. We had the chance to see two people enter the waters of baptism. At 4 o'clock on Saturday was an 8 year old baptism and it was for the Vaszquez family. They invited SO many people to their kids' baptism, that it had to be moved to the chapel and the chapel was pretty full. All full of nonmembers. Following their baptism they had a ton of refreshments which got us fuels for our baptism at 530 for Alan Beatty. It was a miracle how he got to church. A recent convert named Brian was picking him up. Alan wasn't answering his phone, he just moved out of his house, and we didn't know where he was living. All we knew was that he was living somewhere in the big trailer park he was staying in. Brian went around knocking on doors and talking with people on the street until he FOUND Alan. Our jaws dropped when Brian called us saying he found Alan. Alan was eventually baptized and after he got baptized he mumbled under his breath, "I feel so different." God needed him to be baptized.
We had a miracle on Sunday night which made the weekly email. We received a referral and contacted the guy named Aaron Britton. We scheduled a restoration lesson and man it was awesome. This man is prepared. He has already read the whole Book of Mormon, understood our doctrine, and he wants to be apart of it. While we were talking, he mentioned that he is going to start calling himself a "mormon" now since he believes everything in our church. We gave him another copy of The Book of Mormon and a lot of extra pamphlets. God continues to prepare the elect. He accoeted the baptismal date for September 17th. The spirit was THICK in the car when we were teaching him about the prophet Joseph Smith. Can't deny the absolute truth.
Start of the transfer was stressful. Elder Woolsey and I are staying in our groove and popping off. Love you all, please reach out. I'm available all day Monday.
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