Hello everyone. Yes I am now here in Springfield, IL. The capital of Illinois, I am a couple hours away from Navou. This is where the Simpsons is based off of. Our church building is right next to the lake with the powerplant. It is so flat here............. I Miss the Hills in Missouri:( It stinks... oh well. This is a great place full of a lot of work to be done here. I came to another area that has hardly any work going on here. We have a couple investigators that were from the last compaionship. But we have been able to gain a few since we got here Wednesday!
Monday we had our appointment with Tiffene, It was awesome. The appointment went for way to long. over 2 hours. She talks a lot and so did the member we took. haha That day we spent going by members so That I could say goodbye and also saying goodbye to Investigators. It was good. It was sad to say goodbye to everyone. I will really miss the Fenton Ward. They were the best. Especially from leaving that place where I put a ton of work into. The area was flipped from where it was when I got there. I take that place as my Pride and Joy now. Well I take ESTL as that also. There both my babies. haha I had to also spend a lot of the day packing....
Tuesday I got to teach Charlie and Pete for the last time. It was good:) I went to say goodbye to a couple of other investigators and less actives to say goodbye. Nicki the one we baptized had us over for dinner that night. That was nice to do. After we had dinner we went to Del Mar Gardens where we do service at to go to this Firework show. They had a big party thing before like they do at all firework shows. It was sweet because a ton of members were there and we were with investigators. It was cool being at a firework show for my last night there.
Wednesday we went to Transfer meeting where I met my two new companions Elders Banks and Hacking. Banks has been out for 6 months more then I have. And Hacking came out a few transfers after me. They are awesome. I love being in a tripanionship! It is a ton of fun. I did not think I would like it at all but I really love it. There are 10 tripanionships in the mission right now because we have a big overload of missionaries. We had 16 come out this transfer and only 4 go home. But next transfer we have a ton going home. Our appartment is huge so it is easy having three of us all in there. We have the coolest Ward Missionary B-Robb. He is a convert of a few years and he does so much for us. If you talk to him you would think he had been a member for a very long time.
Thursday we had a miracle happen. We recieved a Media Referal. It did not turn out as well as we wanted it but it gave us something to do besides trying to find formers, part members, and tracting. We had to walk everywhere because the car was out of miles already for the month. I was not happy about that at all. But oh well we still got to teach people about the gospel.
Friday was awesome. We gained two new investigators. One of them is a part member. We had a dinner appoinment at a part members and we taught ther first lesson and now are going back in a couple weeks to do the second lesson. And for dinner too! That day we went to also see some less actives and such. B-Robb took us around. That night we decided to introduce ourselves to all our nieghbors. So we knocked on all the doors in part of our complex. We gained a new investigator off it actually! Lizzie and soon we will pick up her sister also. They are later 20's. We gained a few potentials. It is awesome.
Saturday we walked 6 miles. It was terrible. We had B-Robb take us to some part members and such. We got a hold of some less actives. Some of them went ok. haha Just trying to get a feel for this place still. We got in for some lessons to teach.
Sunday was awesome. We went tracting before church. We ended up talking to this man for a long time. He said the only reason he heard was out because he is voting for Romney. Kinda funny. Our Ward is ok size I guess. We have some cool people in the ward. It is weird because I have to start a bunch of new friendships. I am excited for it though getting to know a bunch of more people. All of our ward missionaries in the ward are all people who are here just for the summer selling security. It is a bunch of young couples who go to BYU, or BYU-I or BYU-H. We had dinner at one of the young couples appartment which is actually right next to ours. It is in the complex right across from ours. Basically a almost a stones throw. It is sweet. Another couple came over too who are also ward missionaries. The two young couples were cool. One couple the Morris's are from Camarillo, CA. They know Chelsea Hunter who is a friend from BYU-I I found out from them that she got married since I have been gone. It was really funny to hear about that haha. I was cracking up. The appartment that we had dinner is at is also the headquaters for the security thing. So a bunch of the security salesman were hanging around. They are all mostly members. We actually got to teach a lesson to one of their friends that went really well actually. It was surpirsing. We have not gotten the return appointment yet. It was funny cause one of the other salesman knows a family that i know from my home stake the curtis's. well he told me they moved to San Jose just recently. I hung out with Caitlan Curtis a little up at school. So it was funny that we had the connection.
Today we are going out with some other missionaries and a member to the downtown where the Captial is and checking out some of that stuff. Happy 4th of July everyone!!! Be careful with Fireworks. Please!
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