The LAST transfer

Transfers are super crazy. It'll make for an interesting transfer. My new companion is Elder Haws. He is new to being a Zone Leader as well... And that's about all I know about him. To our surprise we are keeping sisters in the district. We are losing Sister Stoddard and gaining Sister Johnson. Other than that there are a ton of boring changes. Cramer is gone. Alty-baby (Elder Alt) is gone. Whatcott is gone. Basically everyone fun in the zone is gone. haha! So hopefully some of these new guys are fun.

Whatcotts birthday was Monday. It was a full day event. We ended up going golfing so that was pretty fun! That evening was FHE so we all signed a birthday card for him and shared our favorite Whatcott story/#WhatcottProb. We then played life sized clue that was "Who killed Whatcott?". It ended up being the Relief Society President in the mothers room with a cookie.

Exchanges with Alt were super cool this week. He is such a sick kid. He drove super expensive cars in Las Vegas before his mission. Like where people do the ride alongs in corvettes? He drove. He just did super cool crazy stuff.  Exchanges with Noble was a little more of a struggle. He has kind of been a pain to everyone. Elder Alt is a great companion and elder Noble just wasn't treating him well. It was just hard to get through to him.

Street Contacting on Elmwood in downtown. Drunk guys had us sit down and just chat with them. It was funny. Right outside of a coffee shop. That is a sick place to street contact as there are just tons of people around. We tried to contact like 60 people in just an hour. It was sweet!

Stevenson's baptism was this week. It was a family the sisters had been working with in the Amherst Ward. Less Active parents and oldest son. But 6 nonmember kids (1 is 8yrs old). The father ended up baptizing and confirming them. It was an amazing experience! It was really cool to actually see the gospel bring a family together like that. Obviously I didn't work with them but I was familiar with them along the journey as the sisters were teaching them. It was just a super spiritual baptism, sooooo many people showed up in support. It was amazing. His confirmation blessings were just super simple and heartfelt. The family needs a lot of assistance but it's definitely a family that will grow in the gospel and be a huge building block in the church.

I don't think I've explained how throwing things away here works. So basically, if you want to throw something away, you just put it on the side of the road. Then the garbage man takes it or random people come take it. So we see a fire pit.... So naturally we take it. (Not stealing, it was garbage). So we had a missionary activity for ysa and roasted marshmallows in it in the grass behind the church. Then we also used it Saturday night after we all got home behind our apartment. Super fun!

Ward Correlation with the branch mission leader. He realizes that Sister Stoddard is NOT fond of being referred to by her first name, Ashlie. So... Naturally, he only used her first name the whole meeting. She was fuming! Super funny!!