Hello family and friends! First week down.
We started off the week by waking up at 3:30 am on Monday
to get to the SLC airport, from there we flew to Atlanta Georgia. We made 3
attempts to land in the hurricane and then we sat in a holding pattern for an
hour with much turbulence, until the winds died just enough for us to land very
very very roughly on attempt 4.
We then were delayed 5 hours because of 70mph wind and
torrential rain, we finally got on the plane and then waited another hour on
the runway to takeoff. We finally got to the mission home at about 9:30-10:00
ish.
Monday-Tuesday was spent at the mission home meeting
President Smith and Sister Smith and doing interviews. President is the coolest
guy ever he's awesome.
Wednesday we finally go to meet our trainers and be
assigned an area. My trainer is Elder Willis from Logan Utah. He is awesome,
he's super quiet but he teaches with power and authority. Our area is the Charolettsville 1st ward B. B
meaning there are two sets of elders in the ward and we are set B.
Charlottesville (or Harlottsville as it is known by the
elders, welcome to a college town outside of Utah lol) is awesome! UVA campus
is in our area to and its beautiful, it seems like an awesome school. For those
wondering Bronco Mendenhall is in the second ward :(
We are on bikes, so we take the bus a lot. Also if anyone
has an extra padded seat cover that would be much appreciated, seeing as i'll
be riding a bike for at least the next three months, if not longer.
Thursday was my first experience tracting, we have blank
area book because we are both new and we split the area with the A elders and
they have all their investigators in their side of town. The second house we
knocked on the guy told us to "F off" in less polite terms than that.
Riding the bus is awesome, we met a guy who was high as a kite, and talked to
him about religion and the church, he was hilarious to talk to, but he kept falling
asleep because, according to him he had a Bowl for breakfast, a bowl for lunch,
and a bowl for dinner. And he didn’t mean cereal.....
Friday we taught a man named Earl who the other elders
referred to us, we talked about the book of Mormon and Christ and to pray to
know if its true. That night we met the coolest Muslim guy ever, he identifies
as Muslim but lives an "all roads get to heaven" kind of philosophy
taking the best parts of all religions and mashing them together, he was really
interested in the plan of salvation so I gave him a pamphlet and handed out my
first Book of Mormon and gave him our phone number, he probably wont call but
oh well.
Saturday we went back to Richmond with a member to go to
the baptism of a guy Elder Willis was teaching before transfers. Saturday night
we were knocking doors and met Chris, he was been trying to regain a
relationship with God, so we talked about Christ and gave him a Book of Mormon
and set a return appointment for Sunday. Sunday we taught him the restoration
and he had tons of questions and did everything we asked him to read. The
perfect investigator. Unfortunately neither Elder Willis or I realized he's out
of our area, so after our lesson we passed him off to the sisters who cover
that area.
That’s about it for this week,
Mission office address
Virginia Richmond Mission
9327 Midlothian Turnpike, Suite 1B
North Chesterfield, VA 23235-4965
Apartment address
59 Barclay Place court #D
Charolettsville, VA 22901
Elder McArthurThe new whip
The new crib apartment D
Seeing Lindsey at the temple at the MTC
Our Bus Passes
The first is me and Elder Talanoa from Tonga he as our best friend hahah
My MTC district
The Tongans again
President and Sister Smith
Me and Elder Fidget Spinner Spector- he just wandered into our room one night but he's the coolest dude, the hand sign is a heart, I guess Korean people do it, he's obsessed with ,Korea for some reason
The last time I saw The other Elder McArthur
My Trainer Elder Willis
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