Crazy week and crazy transfers... The transfer meeting is actually going on right now, but I found out I didn't have to go because I'm staying here in Yuma!! We got a call from the AP's late Sunday night and got the news that our area was going to be white-washed and that both Elder Johnson and I are leaving. It turns out that I've been inter-zone transferred and that I'm going to be companions with an elder that was in the area right next to mine. Everything is still kind of crazy because we have no idea what the area or boundaries are. It does look like we'll probably be covering all of Yuma though, which is a super massive area.
So out of the 6 missionaries that were in our little Spanish branch, there are now 2 of us still here and we'll see what happens when they bring down the other missionaries. So yep, I'm already moved in and ready to go.
Oh, and another thing that's pretty exciting is that we're finally getting the branch more involved in missionary work. We went over the branch list with the branch president and got it all organized into those who are active, less-active and so forth, and which families are part members. They're finally going to get started with the branch council process and help us teach these people! We all got together last week and went on massive splits. There were 5 of us missionaries, so we each went with a member and visited investigators, less-actives, and inactive members and got a whole lot done. I love it, because the members know these people so much better than we do, and people are way more likely to go to church when they have a friend there.
That was another thing that was quite interesting this week...An elder waiting for a visa got his last week, so his companion joined us and we were one big companionship for a couple days. Teaching was sweet, but people on the street were way intimidated when we stopped to talk to them. It was definitely fun though.
One highlight is that we have a new family to teach that might get baptized in the next couple weeks! One of our members gave us a referral to one of his neighbors and we stopped by to teach them. The kid is particularly awesome, he's this big 16-year old, and he's already reading solid in the Book of Mormon. They all said yes to baptism and were wondering what all you have to do or know in order to be baptized! It was pretty sweet. I definitely have a testimony of working through members. We have done a ridiculous amount of work here OYM-ing on the streets and tracting, and out of all the hundreds of people we've talked to, the only ones that are solid and are progressing toward baptism are linked to members. There's no way around it - members are the way to go, and when they refer friends, their friends already have a support and help when they go to church.
It's been a tough week for eating though... EVERYONE fed us tons, and we had multiple meals a day. Good thing is, we ran and didn't eat much else, so we're all good. Well, I'm really interested to see how everything is going to work out here and I'm super excited for this transfer. There's a lot of people that might potentially be baptized and I would love to be a part of it. My comp Elder Lindquist is another wrestler, a way hard worker, and a super good missionary. He's from Vancouver, Washington, a way funny guy, and I am just nothing but excited right now.
Love y'all!
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