Dear Everyone,
I don't even know where to
start this week. There has been so much that has happened. I guess I
could just start with the big news that you have all probably heard by
now. On Friday evening there was an accident in which Sister Smith was
killed. She had recently gone and opened Woodward Oklahoma. She had
been there for three days and her companion had only been in the field
for three days when this happened. As you just read in that letter
Sister Wendell was unharmed. I can't even imagine what that would be
like to have your mission start out that way. It has been a pretty
crazy week. I didn't really know Sister Smith, but it is like losing a
family member. I am thankful that I have been kept safe up to this
point.
So yeah, besides that crazy news, not much has happened
with me. I spent most of Last Monday and Tuesday getting ready to
leave Ada. I got to go around and say bye to some of the members in
Ada. It was really weird leaving my home of the past three months. I
got up here to Edmond last Wednesday. My new companion is Elder Lance
Apedaile from Morgan, Utah. He has been out for 8 months now and he is a
great missionary. There are the obvious differences of being in the
city and the fact that I am now in a bike area, but other then that all
of the work is still the same. Transfer weeks are pretty crazy. A lot
of the work that has been going on pauses for a couple of days so things
are just starting to pick up again. I am really enjoying Edmond. At
first when I found out I was going to a bike area I thought it was going
to suck, but I am really enjoying it. Except for when it is 35 degrees
outside and we have to ride our bikes 5 miles to help clean the
church. Other then that I have had a really good time in Edmond.
Yesterday it was ward conference here. The main focus
this year was missionary work. President Taylor was supposed to come up
to talk about missionary work and all that jazz, but with the recent
accident he was unable to come. So that left the responsibility of
doing the training to Elder Apedaile and I. It was an interesting
experience training the members on how to do missionary work. The
biggest challenge with it was that we go and start talking with random
people we don't know, while the thing we were trying to teach was
getting them to talk to their friends about the gospel. I thought that
it went really well, but that is just me. I don't know how the members
took it, but when we were talking with the Stake Presidency afterwards,
they said that we had earned their trust. So we had a positive effect
with them.
I don't really have much more to say this week. Thank you for everything that you all do for me. Love you guys.
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