I'll start off with the super exciting news that we got this week: two of the Quorum of the Twelve are coming to the mission the first week in February. We don't know who yet, but I'm so excited!!!!
Well this was a very interesting week. Elder Heninger is my new companion. He is from Virginia, wants to be a band teacher and is a super nice guy. We get along, but he is a bit of a kiss-up and seems like he tries to be fake-spiritual at times when he bear his testimony. But overall, things are good with him! It's an improvement from my last companion. So this area is super dead and so a big change from my last area. Pretty much I feel like we are shotgunning this area because my companion doesn't really know anything about the area and the people. We decided to start off fresh and meet with the ward mission leaders and bishops and we were able to get a lot of referrals. We almost doubled the amount of lessons that they got last week. We went to church all day yesterday and it turned out to be great because we were able to set up a couple of different appointments for this week, so things are going much better now that we have been reviving this area thru CPR haha. We were able to make a lot of good impressions thru dinner and also church, so the member trust is skyrocketing. The past three sets of elders have been let's just say, awful!
There was a blizzard Friday and that was awesome since we get to walk everywhere and it is windy and cold! Luckily, President said that he is working on getting us a car because of my knee and also because we need it for the work. So hopefully, we will be able to get one, but we'll see. We were walking to church Sunday and this lady in her sixties pulled over and asked if we needed a ride. Since we would have been late for church and it was freezing, we hopped in. Once we got out and were walking in the building, the lady said, "People are going to see me coming in with two handsome young men and will think I'm a cougar"...All I could think was goooooooooo! It was so funny though and I couldn't stop laughing the rest of the day when we would pass by her.
So the only big downside to this area and transfer is that I'm surrounded by people that I came out with and that are going home in five weeks! One of which was my MTC companion who is now my ZL. Its hard not to think about, but I'm trying my best not to focus on it and avert my thoughts elsewhere. I am really pumped to see what all I can do for this area and see the improvements that will be made. Dad, I finished my goals this week for the year and one of them was I wanted to leave all the rest of my areas better than they were when I got there. Because I've been able to do that last year, I want to finish strong!
Well that is about it for me. Things are going well and hopefully we will have some more teaching opportunities this week! Hope everyone is doing well!
Elder Larsen
Well this was a very interesting week. Elder Heninger is my new companion. He is from Virginia, wants to be a band teacher and is a super nice guy. We get along, but he is a bit of a kiss-up and seems like he tries to be fake-spiritual at times when he bear his testimony. But overall, things are good with him! It's an improvement from my last companion. So this area is super dead and so a big change from my last area. Pretty much I feel like we are shotgunning this area because my companion doesn't really know anything about the area and the people. We decided to start off fresh and meet with the ward mission leaders and bishops and we were able to get a lot of referrals. We almost doubled the amount of lessons that they got last week. We went to church all day yesterday and it turned out to be great because we were able to set up a couple of different appointments for this week, so things are going much better now that we have been reviving this area thru CPR haha. We were able to make a lot of good impressions thru dinner and also church, so the member trust is skyrocketing. The past three sets of elders have been let's just say, awful!
There was a blizzard Friday and that was awesome since we get to walk everywhere and it is windy and cold! Luckily, President said that he is working on getting us a car because of my knee and also because we need it for the work. So hopefully, we will be able to get one, but we'll see. We were walking to church Sunday and this lady in her sixties pulled over and asked if we needed a ride. Since we would have been late for church and it was freezing, we hopped in. Once we got out and were walking in the building, the lady said, "People are going to see me coming in with two handsome young men and will think I'm a cougar"...All I could think was goooooooooo! It was so funny though and I couldn't stop laughing the rest of the day when we would pass by her.
So the only big downside to this area and transfer is that I'm surrounded by people that I came out with and that are going home in five weeks! One of which was my MTC companion who is now my ZL. Its hard not to think about, but I'm trying my best not to focus on it and avert my thoughts elsewhere. I am really pumped to see what all I can do for this area and see the improvements that will be made. Dad, I finished my goals this week for the year and one of them was I wanted to leave all the rest of my areas better than they were when I got there. Because I've been able to do that last year, I want to finish strong!
Well that is about it for me. Things are going well and hopefully we will have some more teaching opportunities this week! Hope everyone is doing well!
Elder Larsen
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