Transfer News!

Hey everybody!

Sorry for not writing a mass email last week. We had mountain biking to do, and not a whole lot of time to do it in :)

Welp, Elder Ryder is going home on Wednesday because he's done with his mission, so obviously he's not staying in the area, but as it turns out, neither am I! I'm getting moved for my last two transfers. I pretty much knew it was coming though. So the area is being "white washed" but not shut down which is cool. I thought it would be one of the 20 or so areas getting shut down in the next 3 months (Just from not as many missionaries coming in as there are going home) but I guess not! 

I'm sad to leave the Clarkston Ward, because it's just a sweet Ward, but I know that getting moved again and stuff is for the best. 3 out of the 4 missionaries in the Clarkston Ward are actually leaving, so there's quite a lot of change happening. The Ward Mission Leader isn't very happy about it :) But for our last P-day in the area, we went bowling with the district (which includes us and the sisters) and asked the ZL's plus another to area come, so we had a good old time today. I did pretty terrible, but it was still fun :)

For all who may care, we found out for sure that Elder Ryder and I were the oldest missionaries in the mission. At this point, we're at 45 months of missionary service. Good stuff! It'll be interesting to see who I get next, and how we'll stack up in the experience bracket. 

We helped a old member in the Ward put a tarp over his big old pontoon boat to prepare it for winter. It sounds like a simple, straightforward procedure, and it probably should have been, but it took like 2 hours to do. The tarp was also like 40 feet long. I don't know if you have ever tried to open and work with a 40 foot tarp in windy conditions, but it's very exciting.

For Halloween, we pretty much did nothing out of the ordinary. We just tracted in some light sleet/snow, and then went in at 7:00 per the mission's orders. It was pretty fun :) 

So yeah, I'll let you know where my new area is at next Monday!

Thanks for reading!

 

The District.

 

 

After some mountain bikin.