Another Week With Changes

Dear Family & Friends:

Another week has come and gone.  Here is what happened:

1/31 Tuesday
Transfer day! We have added Elder Beccari from Brazil with us and so we are excited to go to work with him. He is from São Paulo Brazil and is straight crazy haha. He is nonstop energy so it is always interesting. He is super funny! We had our last member dinner because the new rules go into effect tomorrow. We ate at a restaurant named Island Flavor with some of the Poly's in the ward. It was super good but turned out to be a big sticky hand fight between all of their kids! We got quite the looks!

2/1 Wednesday
We got to go to the temple today, which is always great! The temple was way better than the ride there! There were five missionaries and the driver and I were sitting on the sunny side and the AC wasn't on and I got super hot and started sweating, but I, for some reason, didn't ask for some air haha! Tonight we did some tracting which was is always interesting! We talked with people that weren't super interested but they listened to us and were friendly which is always a plus!

2/2 Thursday
Tonight we had a lesson with a part member couple that we have been teaching for a little while! It is always super hard to teach them because the husband, who is a member, always talks about how God could not love him because of his health problems and how he doesn't understand why things are going so bad! He was ordained an elder a few months ago but he isn't able to go to church very often. He is planning on baptizing his wife, hopefully, at the end of this month! He is a good guy and I know he felt the Spirit during our lesson!

2/3 Friday

We have a different missionary with us now. Elder Beccari and Elder Alison switched places because Elder Alison can't bike and he was in a bike area.  Elder Alison is from the southern part of the Philippines and has been serving for 21 months! He is super cool and we get along well. I am excited to serve with him! We had a lesson with Tom tonight and it was a really good lesson we committed him to come to church again because he hasn't been since the time changed to 8:30. We went and saw some members and got a couple member referrals so we are excited to contact them!

2/4 Saturday
It was such a long night! Elder Alison snores so bad that it is ridiculous. I couldn't sleep so it was a brutal night. We contacted one of the referrals and he was smoking pot and tried to avoid us haha.  He was nice, but not interested! We had our one dinner for the week with members and had some super good steaks! Wow it was so good!

2/5 Sunday
It was a great Sacrament Meeting! I miss having all the crazy people that were in Charleston Ward. All we had today was a man got up and sang for us, haha it was funny haha!

This week was super good! We had a couple of people at church so that was good! We learned today that this family that has come to church the last 5 weeks straight is a part member family!! We went and saw them last night and the dad is not a member but he is the reason his family is active haha.

The meals we have prepared have been spaghetti and burritos and then breakfast items. I am in an internal conflict on what to do about cooking.  Elder Alison has been helping a lot lately so that has been nice.  I made some killer spaghetti and garlic toast! Could I have a recipe for biscuits and homemade gravy!

Lots of love,
Elder Call