Together for Another Six Weeks

April 17, 2011
Well, this last week was a very interesting week. It was transfer week, which wasn't as exciting as I had been expecting it to be, but it was really surprising. I guess I should start with that. So, they went through the announcements on Tuesday, Elder Reidhead and I were one of the last to be announced. Pretty much all the others had been what we expected, so Elder Newman (zone leader) asked what we wanted to happen to us, and as a joke we said that both of us were going to stay in Ayungon again for a third transfer as companions, and Elder Newman just said, "Yup, you're right!" It took me a couple of minutes to realize that he was telling the truth. So here we are, Elder Reidhead and I are still together for another six weeks. But we like each other and work well together so it's all good. All the members are happy that neither of us transfered, which is also a good sign.

That was the big news of the week. everything else was pretty normal, well, as normal as it gets. We had a bunch of good lessons and our investigators are progressing well. Though we did have a smaller number than we wanted attend church, it was still good and we followed up on them as to why not. Most had good reasons that we had already been warned about. So now we are going to help them start today to prepare in such a way that they will be able to attend next Sunday.

We did have another good experience visiting an investigator that I wasn't feeling like it would really go anywhere. We had talked to this guy last week and he was busy but said we could come back another day. He is gone all during the week so we just talked to his wife and rescheduled. On Thursday we went back (took Michael with us so we could enter the house and asked a nearby member to join too), we shared the message of the Restoration with her and you could tell that she was feeling the Spirit. It was a way good lesson. At the end we invited her to be baptized, she said that it sounded great and she had no problem with it, just needs to talk with her husband. We said that of course she should do that and that we want him to hear this too, and be baptized with her. Good experience. We tried to go back last night, Sunday is the husband's day off, but her husband was already asleep, so we said we'll come back another day. Encouraged her to talk about the Restoration with her husband.

That's pretty much our week for ya'll! it was a good one. Looking forward to the rest of the transfer!

Elder Phelps

Special note on transfers. Once you have been in an area for four transfers, like I was in Cadiz, it is highly unlikely that you will do that again. It almost never happens that you stay with a companion for more that two transfers together. And with this transfer both of those have happened to us. So now Istand this far in the mission with still only three areas, while others of my batch have many more. But I like it like that.