Well, my new companion is Elder
Morgan from Gilbert, AZ. Sorry, doesn't know the Bevans. Specifically, he is
from Chandler. He is a super young 18 year old that graduated in 2013. It is
super weird that I am training someone Megan's age. He has SUPER good Spanish!
Way better than I did when I came out. He came from the Mexico MTC and so that
probably helped out a bit. Plus his parents both speak Spanish. Why didn't
mine???? But he is awesome, likes to work. He is super into football.
He played as a slot receiver in High School. He lost 20 pounds of
muscle in the MTC haha. He's about to gain it all back in
tortillas. Already understands most everything people say to him. That's
because he is in Bridgeton/Mexico and not in Allentown/Puerto Rico/Dominican
Republic.
Because I was training, I spent the
night Tuesday in Philly. Super ghetto. Love it. Wednesday, we went to the
mission office in Broomall and picked up our new companions! We came back here
to Bridgeton and got to work, visited a couple less-actives that day. It was
great. Then, the next day, Halloween, like every other Thursday, we had
District meeting, then our weekly planning session, but then had to be in the
apartment at 6 PM! So basically we were out for less than 2 hours. It kind of
sucked, but Elder Morgan had just received a package literally chalked full of
candy, so we went inside and watched Mountain of the Lord and Joseph Smith:
Prophet of the Restoration to pass the time. We also made some pretty good
tacos. Super good.
Our investigator, Pedro, came to
church yesterday! It is the first time that he has come on his own. The last 2
times he has been picked up by members. He wanted to get up and bear his
testimony but the meeting ended too early. He just needs to tie the fetching
knot and get married. We are focusing on that. He was supposed to come to a
member's house yesterday to talk about matrimonio but didn't show. That bugged
me, but that's ok because he was keeping the Sabbath day holy. We are focusing
on not just coming to church, but also keeping the WHOLE day holy.
A member of the Stake Presidency
went out with us on Friday and introduced us to some of the people he knows in
Bridgeton. He teaches an English class and so he know quite a few people here.
I love that he was willing to go out and introduce us to his friends. He wasn't
afraid to do it. He was willing to open his mouth and invite. It doesn't matter
so much HOW MANY people accept the invitation, what matters most is that we are
EXTENDING the invitation. If we never extend it, no one will ever accept it. We
never really know WHO is ready or willing to accept, so we need to invite
all!!!
Sorry, I was left with a crappy
computer today so I can't send pictures. I really want to because I have taken
some AWESOME ones with the leaves changing and all that john. Mom got a photo
of Elder Morgan and me on Facebook so refer to that.
It is pretty cold here. Like 30
something. SUPER cold-especially on a bike!
PS OUR MISSION IS GETTING IPADS!!!!!
EVERY missionary will be receiving their own iPad. We are going to be cleared
to teach on Skype and Facetime. I am so stoked. There are so many times where I
want to show a video during a lesson or a conference talk or something. I am
stoked. We will be getting them in December. Plus every companionship will be
getting an iPhone instead of this LG piece of junk that we have. Yeah. Be
jealous all of you super old RMs. They recently had a Mission President's
conference in Philly with all the Presidents in the Northeast. They said that
we are getting iPads and iPhones because of our mission's obedience on
Facebook. The Lord blesses His obedient children. Sometimes with iPads. I like
it a lot when that happends. So I will be Facetiming home this Christmas with
my own iPad. Get stoked.
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