3/25/2024

 New area already!!!

#onetransferinSunnyside

Yep I got transferred. Welcome to Memorial Park 2. I was told this is Elder Stober's Favorite area. Well here we go.

Monday

The day before transfer news! Elder Lund and I knew that there had to be a change going on so we decided to make P-Day Super FUN!!! First things first, we went to Lorenzo's to help him move some furniture so that he could get his carpet cleaned. When we went to the store we didn’t get much because of transfers. For our P-Day activity we went to Minute Maid Park for a Houston Astros Tour! It was super fun. We got to go to so many places in the stadium. One of the places we went to was down to the field. Then of course we ended up at the church building. While we were talking to family, our friend Belinda texted us saying she doesn’t want to meet with us anymore which was super sad because she was one of our best progressing friends. We tried to find out why and to talk about it but she really didn’t want to. Super sad. After all that we went back to Lorenzo's to move the furniture back and have some dinner. Then we had our apartment inspection. The inspector can talk for hours so he was there until late into our night. That was crazy. 

Tuesday

We just started with the last zone call of the transfer. We just did contacts most of the day and tried to visit a few people. Lorenzo got us haircuts which was super nice of him. So now I can start this next transfer with a haircut. For dinner we went to our friend Kevin's. I love going over there. On our way back to the apartment the AP’s dropped a message in the chat saying they were going to have a zoom meeting. My 4 transfers of being here I have never seen transfer news dropped over a zoom meeting. But that is the way they did it. Then of course they dropped our standard Email after it. The news of course as you read it in the title of this Email! I GOT TRANSFERRED!!! I only had one transfer in Sunnyside which is super sad but I needed to go to a car area. Elder Lund also got transferred so that makes it the second time in 2 transfers that I have been whitewashed! It is now the zone leader's area. It was some crazy news to receive.

Now I get to be with Elder West in MP2

Wednesday

The last day I had in Sunnyside! We started packing our stuff and then saying goodbye to our friends and letting them know that 2 new missionaries would be coming in and contacting them. Nothing eventful happened. It was just visiting some friends and packing.

Thursday

TRANSFERS!!!!!!! Wow we had to fit all of mine and Elder Lund's stuff into the car while also keeping 2 of the seats up in the back of the car so we could fit Elder Lund, Belnap, Child, and I all into the car. Elder Belnap and Child had to go because Elder Belnap is the new District Leader for the MacG District. It was very tightly packed in the car but we made it work. It was raining pretty hard most of the day so everyone just chilled inside for transfers I chilled with my friend Elder Fritzsching. He graduated with me so it was super cool to see him here in Houston too. Eventually the rain stopped when we didn’t need to be moving anything between cars so there is some amazing timing. We got to the area and quickly moved all my stuff into the apartment then went back out to work. It started raining really hard again but we survived and made it home.

Friday

Well the days are absolutely filled here. There are so many apartment complexes it is almost overwhelming after being trained in Jones Creek. We also got a bunch of the Sisters Friends so we have even more people to contact. It was a really good day though. There shouldn’t be any problems with being bored here.

Saturday

OK it wasn’t as good as Friday but still an amazing day. It started off with a Stake Missionary Breakfast. This is something that the Richmond Stake never did so it was really cool to have it. It kinda feels like ZC because of course its the whole zone there but it is just breakfast with a few words from the Stake President. It was also a celebration for the Roberts' 50th Wedding anniversary. They are some of the senior missionaries assigned to this zone. Then we had a mission zoom to kick off the transfer which was also something they haven’t done before so that was also strange. Now for the reason it wasn’t as good as Friday, most of our plans got canceled in the early evening so we decided to do our weekly planning that we weren’t able to get to until then. That made it a bit better but we still went out and did our best. 

Sunday

Dude this was actually an absolutely AMAZING Sunday! We had 13 people, ya count it 13 people come to church today along with 5 recent converts!!! That is CRAZY! They were all slowly coming in as church was going on but they made it. Church is also VERY different here in the MP2 ward. To my knowledge they share Sunday School with the MP1 ward which means MP1 has sacrament meeting then shared Sunday school for both wards then MP2 has sacrament meeting after Sunday school. It was very strange. So after sacrament meeting everyone went home. Anyway it was a great day. There wasn’t many successful contacts or finding in the evening but church was a success and that is what matters. 

Yep MP2 is a completely different area from Jones Creek and SunnySide. It should be really good in this area. The days are starting to warm up even more so lets pray that we can continue to have cooler weather. For those wondering, yes my arm is feeling better. I still have to wear the sling but it isn’t that bad. I hope you are all having a great time wherever you are and don’t forget to remember your Savior this week as we lead up to Easter! Study Come Follow Me. It is all Easter focused this week!

See you next week as we start to prepare for General Conference!