New Area

December 3, 2013

Hello everybody!

So I got transferred to a new area after being in Detroit River for only 1 transfer. It's kind of lame that I spent such a short time there, but it's okay because I'm still in Detroit, just in a different part really close to my first area. I'm still in a bike area, so that's cool I guess. I was hoping for a car now that winter is coming, but I guess that's not what the Lord wanted :) Elder Leonard had to train, and President feels that being trained in a trio isn't the best route to go, so I got shipped out.

But anyways, my new area is Belle Isle Central in the Belle Isle branch that apparently has more active members than pretty much any other Ward that I've been in on my mission, so that's pretty sweet. My new companion is

Elder Fox, and he is pretty awesome! This will be his 4th transfer, so he has been out about half as long as me, and I am super excited to be able to work with him in this area!

So since I've been in my new area for like two hours, there is not a lot to tell you about it, so I'll tell you some things that happened in my last area :)

Now that it has become winter, the heaters (which are old school radiators) in our flat decided it would be a good time to stop working; so they did just that. So we didn't have heat for a couple of days, until one of the other areas in the branch with working heat, gave us some space heaters, and that kept the apartment around 60 degrees at night, which was a good improvement.

One of our investigators recommended that we try this taco bus that was just down the street. We had seen it lots before, but we never decided to try it until then. It turned out that they sell super yummy tacos for $1.00 each, so I got two of them and decided that I would make many more visits to this wonderful bus... Except that it vanished the rest of the time I was in that area. It made me pretty sad.

We got a little bit of snow last week that stuck around for a couple of days, so we had a lot of fun fishtailing our bikes on the slippery road. At one point we decided to try to spin 180 degrees while riding. I did it just fine, and then Elder Romero tried it. He almost made it, but when he put his foot down after doing the 180, it slipped out from underneath him, and he fell over and just sat there groaning for a bit. I almost passed out and fell down too from laughing so hard. He was fine though, so it was okay :)

Yesterday for the last couple hours of out P-day, we went to a super cool member's house who's birthday was that day (he turned 16) and played a few games of Yu-Gi-Oh. I was kind of completely lost, so really it was him playing against his older brother, with two of us missionaries holding the cards, but it was still fun :)

So anyways, that's my update! :) Thx for reading!

Elder Roderer

BTW, my new address is:

3500 Bluehill St. #207

Detroit, MI 48224