Week 7: Well Fed

Hi mom and everyone back home! It's p-day! So, i am emailing home to ya.

To start off, I got your package, thank you for the pillow and all the

snacks, but i'm not going to lie to ya, there is a member of my ward

who makes sure we are well stocked, so I appreciated all the Ramen,

but we already had a box of 48 of them.

I also got a thanksgiving package from Grandma Hagen, tell her thank

you for that, the minions where cool and the Christmas ornament is

awesome, I just don't have a tree to put it on.

On to my week!

So, Monday, was the last day elder Scott was in the Brandermill ward

and area, as such, He wanted to visit members and non-members to get 

pictures with em', say goodbye, get their emails and facebooks, etc, etc. 

so essentially, we went about the day doing such.

Tuesday was transfers. We woke up, went to go see a less active

member, Elder Scott's last goodbye, then we got a ride to transfers.

We walked in 5 minutes before it started, sang "called to serve" with

the other 60 something missionaries in the room, and got our new

companions. Funny thing is though, when Elder Scott and I sat down, we

sat down next to this other companionship, and lo and behold, i had

somehow sat down next to my new companion, Elder Eliason. Elder

Eliason, is not from Utah, which is a huge shocker. He is from

Arizona, so we where essentially in the same boat coming out here,

from hot and dry, to cold and trees. He graduated with the class of

2016, he came out 2 months before me. But honestly, that's where

similarities end. We walked to our regular Tuesday appointments once

we got back, and the day ended there.

Wednesday we went to go pick up a bike from a members home, so that we

could bike once again to all of our appointments, FUN. We biked over

to the church so elder Eliason could sink his IPad so he too, could

share in being able to decide where to go in Brandermill. We went to

go visit some less actives around the church afterwards, one of them

was insane, I helped her get plates from a box with broken dishes, and

we went home. We visited with an investigator we had been working with

afterwards, and had homemade sushi at a members home.

Thursday, Thanksgiving, turkey day, the day of thanks, that day, we

did nothing on terms of missionary work, it being too difficult to deal

with on said day.

So essentially, Thursday, we spent the morning in studies, and around

3 in the afternoon, we went to our Thanksgiving appointment. The

family we went to, the Thomas's where a new couple in the ward, the

only family they had over where their two younger kids, 4 and 7, and

Brother Thomas's father. They had purchased a 20 lbs turkey, expecting

us elders to eat, and eat, and eat, and boy where we stuffed after our

second plate. We spent around 3 hours at their home, before we where

picked up by a member to play card/board games at the church building

with a couple other families. Our day ended there, a whole lot of left

overs and a whole lot of homesickness.

Friday we went out with a member in the morning to go visit a less

active, and to go see potentials. The afternoon however, was spent in

a "service project" per say. Essentially, there is a quadriplegic man

in our ward, whom doesn't have much entertainment in his life, so, we

with a member, went over to his home, and played machi koro, a card

game which requires little to no movement. So we arrived, played a

round, I won, and actually taught a lesson to a non-member, Don's (the

quadriplegic) nurse, Oleg. We played 2 more rounds of the game, and

got home around 8.

Saturday was spent doing nothing of importance, little work got done,

no one answered the door.

Sunday, we woke up, got ready for church, went to our 2 hour meeting

(essentially classes wont start until the beginning of January.), and

went out with a member of our ward to go check up on some less

actives, and try and see some potentials. We actually got 2 return

appointments.

And that was my week. I hope you all had a good Thanksgiving and black

Friday, I love and miss you all.

I don't have any pictures this week, I should have taken some, but Ii

didn't, sorry, although, I would like to point out the phones we are

using... Remember these things? The one I had as a kid was red.

Midlothian/Chesterfield Zone Conference, find Elder Hagen

Midlothian/Chesterfield Zone Conference lunch