Whew...the transfer is over (almost)

This week went by pretty quick! I am surprised. I think the reason why it went pretty quick is because we had stuff to do. Time goes by SUPER SLOW when you are just tracting and street contacting all day. I like to get in members houses when I can. That is usually where we can get more people to teach and more trust from the members. As you can probably tell, I am not a fan of tracting...at all. Street contacting is more natural to me so that I can stand, but tracting I do not like and I have had absolutely NO success in it. The members here feel the same way and they are trying in every way they can to help us find people to teach or to get in members houses to help with our teaching. We are currently working with the Ward Mission Leader on trying to get into members houses and so far it is responding positively. Working with members is usually the best place to go.

Now that is just one of my few opinions I have on missionary work and what works best both from experience and companions who have told me. Maybe I can tell you more as I go later on.

I hit my 10 month mark on Saturday. I am now in double digits! Sheesh! It has been that long?! Holy Freak! I am almost halfway..sheesh. It is kinda scary that in about 2 months I was getting dropped off at the MTC. O, the greenie days haha! Those were, interesting days. 

The Hike that we went to last Monday was super sweet! We ate with the family and went on the hike. It went swell! We got along really close and also got to know a non-member. We are pretty close to the Nelson, who we went on the hike with. They come regularly, but we are trying to work with the father because he wants to get his family to the temple and be sealed but is struggling. So we are working on that with him.

4 missionaries are leaving this week in our zone for home and it is making our entire zone super trunkie! Especially me on Wednesday! I kept thinking to myself, "I am just doing this entire rotation of missionary work for another year and some...and I am getting sick of it." In some ways it is pretty true. That is why we try to spice up missionary work sometimes by playing games, working as a zone, and all that so that we can still be engaged in missionary work. But it hard when your current companion doesn't want to do that sort of stuff and wants to do missionary work the old ways by just tracting all day...I am trying my best to tell them their are better ways to do missionary work than just go around tracting all day. I lose my patience quite a bit with him and it won't be long until I go crazy so...hopefully he will get transferred.

We have a member missionary class during Sunday school which helps members as well.

We also went to the temple on Thursday as you can probably see from the pictures. It was a swell experience. I didn't see the new temple film, but oh well. 

Well, I will report back and see whether I got a new companion or not. Love you all and take care!

(Departing Missionaries)