End of Another Transfer written March 3, 2014
Transfer calls came on Saturday night and I will be getting a new companion on Tuesday! It's been a good run with Elder Mason here, but it's time for someone new. We're only losing two people from our district, Elder Mason and Elder Richardson. They will be missed dearly here.
Last Monday we got invited to a family home evening with a member family. Every week they invite a bunch of people over and have a lesson and a treat. I haven't been to a normal family home evening like that in a long time. It was a good time. We weren't in charge of anything, we just showed up, added some comments to the lesson, and enjoyed cheesecake and orange juice afterward. Can't go wrong there.
Tuesday we were supposed to meet with the Briceno family again, but they ended up canceling at the last minute. So we headed over to help out with English classes instead. Always a good backup. There are some new people coming, we've hit an all time record of twenty people at the classes. And yet every person we've tried to meet with and teach has stopped coming. Funny how that works. All we can do is move on to new people.
Wednesday I had an exchange with Elder Richardson. It was only for part of the day though, so by five, I was back with Elder Mason. There wasn't much to do in the afternoon, but we cooked up some baller lunch and we unsuccessfully looked up people. We did an activity where we walk down Main Street and have to hand out three book of Mormons to people along the way. It worked, we gave out the books, but nobody was particularly interested in it. At least they have the book now and might read it out of curiosity. Back with Mason, we had dinner with the branch president and then headed back for the church to teach another round of English classes.
Thursday is our usual day for a knocking blitz. It was horrifically cold that night. We went out and tried, but after about twenty minutes of freezing rejection, we headed in for a break from the cold. The rest of the night was spent looking up former investigators. Some of them are from a couple of years back, and don't live there anymore, others are never home, but they have all had contact with missionaries before, so it's always a good thing to look them up.
Friday we had a branch game night at the church. We invited all of the English class students and two of them actually came! It was fun to have them there. The sisters organized some minute to win it-type games for us all to play. Everyone seemed to have a lot of fun. Ice cream and cookies for dessert, it was a complete party. We didn't have the best branch turnout, but those who did come had a good time, so I'd say it was a success.
Saturday was pretty much more of the same. We helped clean the church in the afternoon and then looked up some people we've worked with before. We met a couple of new people, but nobody very interested. We ended the night with milkshakes from McDonald's. Best way to end a day, in my opinion.
Sunday was largely uneventful. Someone thought it would be a good idea to have branch council after church on fast Sunday. I recommend not doing that ever. Nobody is happy to be in that meeting at 4:30 in the afternoon when they haven't eaten all day. But the show must go on, so we sat through the meeting for another hour. There was some nice
coordination about the next game night and we discussed doing an Easter Concert, so it was a good meeting in the end. We were just very hungry the whole time. We finished up the night by visiting some people so Elder Mason could say goodbye.
And that brings us to today. New companion tomorrow, we just need to get some solid appointments set up so we're not endlessly looking for people. So hopefully this week or the next we can get cruising again.
Love,
Elder Erickson
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