Yes, I’ve been transferred and, yeah, being transferred was
really a surprise. I did not see that one coming, but I guess
the Lord did, and He put everyone where they needed to be. I'm a little bummed
that I didn't get to see A & S get baptized, (they were so
close!) but there are two good missionaries going in there, so I'm sure they
will do a good job. Elder A and I were actually replaced by
Elder C and his new Greenie Elder T. Elder C actually trained Elder S,
my MTC Companion. :D
My new companion is Elder M, he’s super cool. He came out at
the same time as Elder A, and was trained by my last Zone Leader, Elder A, in
Mission (yes, that's the name of a place here in BC.), which
is actually where Elder A got transferred to! So to recap:
I'm with Elder M, who Elder A is replacing in Mission, and Elder A
(My last Zone Leader AND Elder M's Trainer) is still in my District
because he got transferred here as well to open an Area. Fun!
I don't have a ton of time to answer all of your questions
(the computers here are awful, and don't really work so great.), but I
will certainly answered as many as I can tomorrow!
As for 10 o'clock it doesn't look like that is going
to so much work tomorrow, because we are going to be
having breakfast with a member here at 10am, we don't have
any plans for lunch but President Tilleman has asked us to spend as much time
with members as possible on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day (but no
more than two hours in a row at any one place) so we want to kind of leave
the lunch hour open, but we were thinking that you guys could call at
1:00 pm, and then elder M's family would call at 2:00 pm. How’s that
sound?
I am super excited to talk to you all!!! That's going to be
my favorite Christmas present this year as well. :D
I must confess though, I did already open one of
my Christmas presents. But the devil made me do it! See, there was no way I
was going to get it to my new location in the box. It’s a really nice waterfroof messenger bag though and I
can’t wait till after Christmas to use it!!! :D It’s really going to help me in
my missionary work, even though it’s not as wet here.
I'm working on the 12 days of Christmas that you sent me. It’s
so awesome! Thank you all so much! I didn’t even get to open the box until the
22nd, so I’ve had to do some catching up. I should have been taking
pictures the whole time, but sadly I haven't taken
a single picture since I got here yet. :( Sorry.
I’m doing okay in temporal matters. There is a TON of food
in the apartment. I thought I had more than I would ever eat before I was
transferred, which was true, there was still a bunch there when I left (I did
smuggle the Nutella with me though. ;P) But Elder M and I probably won’t
have to buy anything but eggs and milk for the whole transfer!
The members here are really, really, really nice. The Branch
President is President J and when I told them I was from Oregon they got all
excited because they are apparently huge fans of Pendleton Wool
blankets and had to tell us the story of how they discovered them and why they
love them so much.
Our Branch Mission leader is Brother B, he used to live
where I was just transferred from and when I told the members there that I was
coming here they got all excited because they knew Brother B and how great he
is. We have had the opportunity to spend some time with him and his family (They
have the coolest house! Dad, you would be so jealous if you saw where they
live! I’ll try and get a picture with them at their house.) They are
all really cool, and Brother B is super excited about missionary work here.
The whole Branch is! If we could just get our Wards as excited about
missionary work as the Branches are out here in the frozen wastes of Canada,
the Church would triple in size every year!
I'm pretty much out of time, so I got to run, but I
will certainly talk to you tomorrow at 1:00 and answer as
many other questions as I can.
Love you all,
Elder Thomson
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