Week 80: Big News!

Dear Family,

Scripture of the week: 3 nephi 7:18. Been studying in 3 nephi this week, its so amazing to read the words of the Savior. 

I am so glad you got to go to the Polls report. I miss them so much and wish they would just come back to the mission and finish it out with me. Also so neat you got to meet some of my pals. elder simkins is the best love that kid. Elder Ward is one of my favorites as well. As is sister reid. I miss them all very much. Also so cool the wilkeys were there. They are amazing. 

Alright ill stop dragging on the transfer wait and tell you what is happening..................................... so transfer calls usually come between 9 and 10 saturday night, well saturday at 445 our phone rings, and it was presidents special ring. i thought to myself " what is he doing its not transfer call time yet" so as much as i thought about screening the call i figured i better answer it. BAD IDEA i should have screened the call. but i didnt so now i am being transferred. 

Elder Holley is staying in Bedford and will be training a new Zone leader. And Elder Zilles after being a zone leader for a wicked fast 9 months what will be happening to him????.... Well i have been called to serve along side president as his Assistant. Holy poop can you believe that? I thought i was crazy busy before, but now im going to be just out of my mind busy all of the time. Still not sure how i feel about the whole thing, but i do know that each transfer call is inspired by the Lord, and this is where i am supposed to serve for the next few months. on the bright side, i get to spend lots of time with president, and my companion is Elder Wells. Our evil plan to be companions did work.  Just pretty crazy though. 

so this week we set a goal to find 7 new investigators, and it just wasnt happening. By friday morning we didnt have a single one for the week. Well we were not going to settle for that knowing it could be the last week of our companionship. So we set out to get our 7 newbies. Well we didnt quite reach 7 but in 3 days we did find 5. we worked like crazy and it payed off. In the last 2 transfers we found 40 new investigators. Should leave elder holley and his new companion with plenty of work to do. One of our new investigators from  a few weeks ago came to church yesterday,  and i bet she is baptized here soon. 

So although im not transferring very far, i wont be attending church in the bedford ward, i will be in the manchester ward, so last night had to go and tell my favorite people goodbye. The hardest one was the Spencer Family. they are the ones that have been texting you the pictures here and there. i love them they are so great.  truly some of my best mission friends. 

so this week we were riding our bikes down this hill and i saw a cup of coffee and thought hmm im gonna go kick that  so i kicked it as i rode past and it blew up all over my leg. So what do we learn from this lesson? Dont mess with sin, for then it will get all over you. Thankfully we have a washer so i could wash the coffee off my pants. Just as we have the atonement to wash us clean, my pants no longer smell like coffee, and with the atonement we dont have to be stained with our sins. Never forget that the atonement is always there for us.