Letter #12

So today marks my 3 month mark on the mission! It feels so much longer and so much shorter at the same time. Also, transfer calls come this Saturday! That means I might be moving this coming week, so don't send me any more letters to my address until I find out if I'm staying or leaving. It seems like chances are pretty good that I'll end up in a new area this time, and Elder Burt will stay in Stadium, but you never really know. If I am leaving, I will be moving a week from tomorrow, so it will be exciting to see where I will go. Stadium has been an awesome ward, and it would be fun to stay longer, but there are probably some other wards out there that are pretty good too, so I'm not too worried. But this transfer is going to be really intense, because 2 of our zones are leaving the mission. Anyone who is in Puyallup or Graham zones after this transfer happens will be in the new Federal Way mission in a couple of weeks now.

This week has been so long. We've been doing service projects most days with the nice weather, and I've been a little sick with something, and so we really didn't spend that much time in lessons this week. We spent a bunch of time digging up sod for a single sister in our ward who wants a flower bed next to her driveway, and then we helped someone in the final phases of moving out of their home, and then we helped that same person plant tomatoes in their new home. It's been a lot of work, but it's really fulfilling. More so than knocking doors for a couple of hours, and not finding anyone interested. But it's all good work.

This week was pretty standard. When we weren't doing service for ward members or investigators, we were talking to your everyday crazy people that are all over Tacoma. Apparently the missionaries from an adjacent ward to mine called Tacoma ghetto in testimony meeting a couple months ago, and that wasn't too popular. We were working with Eddie and Tiffany a little bit this week. They will be a slow process in teaching if they do get baptized. Eddie doesn't want to make commitments, but Tiffany is reading the Book of Mormon, and likes the church so far, but she gets busy. If she does decide to join the church though, she will definitely bring Eddie with her, so we're working harder on bringing her right now. They get pretty busy though, so we haven't had a set lesson with them in a little while, so we're working on that. They still let us come in and talk to them when we're passing through though, and Tiffany does read the Book of Mormon occasionally, so that's a good sign. Right now, they really just need to come to church.

Also, we were working with Chris and Darius this last week. They are the children of a less active who wants them to get baptized. Missionaries have been going over there for probably about a year now, and we finally have them set to get baptized on June 1, which might be right after I leave here, but that's super exciting that they will be getting baptized. The mother of the kids asked us if we could find out if there was a ward in the place she was moving to at the end of the summer, so I think teaching the kids has had a positive impact on her too.

Well, I miss you all! I hope you all have an awesome week!