Let the 5 week transfer begin

I know all of you are dying to know who my new companion is. I was too when it was transfer time. I did express that I was really nervous about who my new companion was going to be because on what the next step was going to be in our area. Lo and behold, I got a sweet companion that I actually called that I was going to get. His name is Elder Hulse. He was from my MTC district and we came out at the same time. I served around him once on my mission and that was my last area in Copperwood where he was my district leader. He isn't district leader anymore so that means my DLB days are over. I am just a regular missionary now.

Elder Hulse has been out...well...the same time I have been. 21 months. He is from around Logan, Utah. I don't remember exactly what town he is from, but it is somewhere close to that one. He and I get along awesome. He wasn't too happy about getting transferred like I was in Copperwood, but he and I are almost done with our mission so we should be just fine.

A lot of the Zone has changed. Our two zone leaders both left, one going home and one going to the North. The one going home is from AF. Downing is his last name. Maybe you guys can look him up and see how he is doing. Anywho, we got two new zone leaders who a re pretty young in the mission and seem to take this zone to a new direction. We had a "goal meeting" and discussed what we like to focus on this transfer. We all agreed that we focus on asking referrals from everyone we meet with. While I do agree with this goal, I don't agree with the goal number we set. We set 500 each week for the entire zone. I don't disagree with not reaching it because we could...but our area sucks with this and we would be in the minority and it would just make us look bad. Not that is anything new, but I rather avoid that situation.

Our ward hasn't change much. We have been doing a lot of service and trying to figure out the whole situation with Brother Tinney and Josh. But I feel whatever we tell the ward council what we did during the week, they are always expecting more. There isn't much to tell them. This area....this area is dead! Unless members actually HELP us get to know people and not just DUMP them on us, then we could work on Part member families. But all ward council tells us to do is to just...do it. Plus, we tell them we do service and they don't seem too happy about it either. I don't know what they want or expect of us, but it is getting pretty annoying. Elder Hulse notices it too and he already knows that this is going to be a tough area and a tough time to get through it.

President interviews are this week and I am going to express what all is happening in my area to President so he can suggest a few ways to  get it progressing. Plus, it is President's last interview with us and it may be an emotional time. We'll see what happens.

I guess it is now question time!

Question #1: Did we do any service lately and what was it?

This week we did quite a bit. We went to a farm and put some gopher poison in some holes where the gophers live. That took a while, but it was pretty fun. We also help taking some concrete out of a person's backyard, but there was some re-barb that we couldn't cut through or breakthrough so we will have to wait till we continue on that.

Question #2: Do you have any funny experiences to tell?

Talking to Elder Hulse about our MTC times has been fun. We see sometimes that elders we knew in the MTC have changed. Not changed good, but changed bad. What I mean is they get in our face and think they know everything about the mission and what we should do. But that is another subject I rather not talk about.

Hmmm, well, Brother Tinney invited us over to a fire pit dinner and we went. There was quite a bit of non-members there. The parents didn't seem to want to talk with us, but the kids and teenagers were all over us. They gave us some updates on video games and movie trailers and all that jazz. But during that, the fire got a bit big after throwing a bit of wood in it and a kid backed off without looking where he was going and trip over the concrete that we were working on getting out. He has a little scrape, but the kid was in complete shock and was making a scence. The funniest part was this.

Kid that fell over: I wanna lay down

Brother Tinney's daughter: Then lay down

KTFO: I can't!...I wanna stand up.

BTD: Then stand up.

KTFO: I CAN'T! Is my arm broken?

BTD: No.

KTFO: Oh thank you God!

It was quite a a funny experience, but that is just my sense of humor.

Before I go, about the BYU-I course thing...I have no idea how colledge work and I am not exactly at a place where I can print this off or any place nearby where I can. I will see what I can do though, but I don't expect I will be doing it anytime soon...:/

Love you all and the picture I posting up is a picture of my and my current companion, but it is an old picture. He is the elder that is in the middle with me. Take care!