Your calculations are so correct! If one of us is getting a call to be transferred we should be getting it this evening. Side Note: we had dinner with the N family yesterday and Sister N's sister has a son serving in Toronto so while we were there she was writing him an email and I had her put in to have her son say "Hi" to an Elder Romrell serving in Mandarin work in or near Toronto. ;) So we'll see if the message gets through. ;) I have been in this area for three transfers now (4 1/2 months for those of you who are keeping track at home) and so I wouldn't be surprised if I left, but at the same time I wouldn't be surprised if I stayed.
This is a tough area, I'm not complaining or making excuses (I have before, but I'm not now), it just is. But good things are happening in the Ward. We had a meeting with Bishop last Sunday afternoon and set up with him to have a Missionary Correlation meeting with him and his Councilors and a representative from each Priesthood and Auxiliary Presidency. Ward Council and PEC are good, but Missionary work gets five minutes, tops, and that just to ask if there are any investigators that they should know about or that we need help with. That first correlation meeting happened Tuesday night, at that meeting Brother O, a member of the Bishopric stepped forward and volunteered to serve as the interim Ward Mission Leader, until our recently called new Ward Mission Leader returns from his seven week vacation. The next afternoon we met at Brother O’s house with Brother A (our Ward Missionary who plays for the BC Lions), and Sister H (our upstairs neighbor), we hashed over the Ward Mission Plan, and set some serious goals for the Ward Mission, and some super manageable baby steps to get the members helping to accomplish those goals. It was really good. Then yesterday Brother O (politely) hijacked PEC and we spent the whole meeting talking about Missionary work. THEN after church we met with President K of the Elder’s Quorum and went over the Ward list and talked about who he thought would be good for us to visit or what we could do to help the members fellowship these people. ALSO we got our first batch of 20 names for the Lost Sheep rescue effort so pretty soon we will be dividing those 20 between us and the Sisters so we can start tracking 'em down. ;) Good stuff.
As far as transfers go though, I don’t know what stresses me
out the most. I don’t necessarily like saying goodbye to everybody, that’s
stressful. There are so many cool people in each of the areas that I’ve
served, both members and nonmembers. I’m not a fan of packing up all my
junk or trying to juggle everything while I travel. I’m always plagued by the
fear that I’m forgetting something. And honestly if I move this transfer I’m
getting rid of a bunch of it and just keeping the things that I really need...
or like. I hope you don’t mind but I already gave my EFY CD's to Elder A because
now that I have the USB I don’t really use them anyway, but thank you so much
for the CDs and the USB, they have both been wonderful. But I think
the thing that stresses me out the most is the fear of the unknown.
In other news.. we are taking our second hour of email in
the Clerk’s office at the church today so you get pictures!!!
Love ya. Gotta run! Bye! :D
Elder Thomson
Lego!!!
I think this actually might be a better goofy glasses
picture:
Me doing cool things with a flashlight ;)
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