"Last week I told you that I was not expecting Elder McMurrin and I to be transferred. However, after much mission gossip and one AP and one ZL asking me if I was ready to train... the last thing on my mind was that Elder McMurrin and I would stay together and that the other to elders in our 4-man would stay together as well. But that is exactly what happened. Which is good because we are really wanting to start a more member-centered approach to the missionary work here and it just makes it that much easier that we have 2 up-to-date elders working on this instead of some other combination.
"With the flush continuing (but winding down) we had to open up a couple new areas and so the west side of the island for french got split into two. So that adds another team to our district which is cool. Because of that though, our car was taken away (well... it shouldn't have been there in the first place, it was just an extra car and so they let us have it for a little bit). This will complicate things a little bit, but it will be fine. We will do the work we need to solely on metro bus and walking... ha there are times (several I might add) in the past few days that we have had to walk an extremely long ways and have actually beaten the bus! Got to love power walking! (It's what you do when it's really cold outside to just stay warm!!!)
"We had a couple cool stories this week! So as we were walking to find a less-active's house, we heard a sound that was really weird. Turns out it was a car that had just gotten a flat tire. They were going the opposite way as us and weren't stopping. So we didn't help them. But as we crossed the road, another car had the same thing happen to them and they pulled over close to us and so we went back and helped them. We spent about an hour trying to get the tire to fit properly on the wheel again but to no avail. It made matters worse when we saw a huge hole in the tire. So essentially we couldn't help them... but it was a neat family from the Dominican Republic and so we got their number and we are hopefully going to see them this week!! It was really cute because as we were working on the tire, the back of their van was open and then all their little kids were there just saying Hello to all who passed by! Ha super funny.
"The second story comes from church yesterday. There weren't too many people in church to start off, but after the sacrament passed and the doors opened up a whole bunch of people came in! And one of them happened to be our investigator with his finacee! We didn't really think that he was going to come and yet he did! That technically means that he has gone to church three times and meets the requirements for baptism! But we'll see about that in the coming weeks!
"Third story - again at church. There were a whole bunch of people that came in that we didn't know. It turns out that one of these families is from the bahamas - moved here a month ago and they speak english. Ha but they were at the French ward. So they are all members but for some reason they have 2 daughters (16 and 20) who aren't members. So if they start coming to the english ward they will become our investigators and will be super awesome! They have a 12 year old boy in the family and he only speaks english - so E. McMurrin and I took him to the English branch with us and he is just super cool! I loved being somewhat of an older brother to him! It was really funny to see him use his sweatshirt as a pillow and sleep during sacrament meeting. He slept right through the closing song and prayer and even a little bit of us trying to wake him up by talking next to him. Such a great family.
"Fourth- we recently got in touch with a less-active from our french ward. It's really neat because I just took my communications class at BYU and so I still remember the things we talked about then. Turns out he is a technical director for one of the TV stations here in town and so we had a good time talking about all sorts of TV things and cameras and video cameras and editing programs. It was really neat to talk with him about all those different things and also made me miss the wonderful Canon 7D. Hopefully he will start coming back to church soon. He was really strong for so long! He really wants to go to the temple again.
"So we have had some hiccups in the changing of knocking to trying to work with members and help them in their missionary efforts (like how they can share the gospel - or ideas of how, how we can help them in their ward mission plan, all sorts of things like that). Hopefully those will be taken care of as we just keep going and keep doing what we can to be better missionaries."
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