I stole this weeks title from Don... who stole it from Adam I believe... but no. This is not the weekly Semana. Even though it seems a bit appropriate now that I'm in an area with a TON of Spanish speaking people!!!!!!!!! But I'll tell you about that in a second.
This week was Transfer week! I had to leave Concordia on Wednesday,
say goodbye to Elder Kempter and all the branch members that I happened
to see on the way out, and then head on out here to Garden City Kansas!
This area was in the Colorado, Colorado Springs mission, and I am here
with mostly those missionaries who were a part of that mission! So it's
really interesting to see the differences in rules and policies and
such.
Anyways, this area, Garden City, and the Ward that I'm serving
in... has 4 companionships just to the one ward. Also, the population
here is about 50 percent Spanish. So... I'm really glad that we have a
companionship here that is Spanish speaking. So they get to handle all
of that stuff :)
I am still the District Leader, and the Zone Leaders here are a
part of my District, so I get to hold them accountable, humble them a
little bit ;) Nah just kidding, but it's nice having them in the
District.
Oh! My bad. Some of you are probably yelling at me (Maybe it's just
my mom) wondering who my new companion is. His name is Elder Heppler,
and he is from American Fork Utah! So that's cool, he's a real good guy,
funny, and easy to get along with. We're having a good time already.
But, when I first got here, we immediately got home, and I had to
change into my service close because we had a dinner appointment/service
opportunity in about 10 minutes! So, I changed and got the heck out of
there! We went to the families home, (I'm forgetting their names right
now... my bad!) and we pulled a bunch of weeds, and laid some mulch in
the garden. It was fun, and a good way to get to know the other elders
(and sisters) right off the bat. All of the companionships were there at
dinner, so that was good for me to get to know them.
Then after that we finally came back to the apartment, where I was
able to really take stock of things. The whole place was a gigantic
MESS!!!! Super gross, so we spent all the next day cleaning up the whole
apartment, taking out garbage, vacuuming, stuff like that. And to be
honest, that's how it's been pretty much this whole week. We have had to
spend a TON of time cleaning up the apartment, the area book, and just
making sure that WE are organized and ready to get out and work. I very
strongly feel that we can't be very effective missionaries if we can't
even keep our apartment clean.
So that about does it for this week!
OH! One funny thing
did happen actually 2 nights ago. Elder Heppler told me in the morning
that he was trying to get to sleep when I started to kind of mumble
nonsense in my sleep, he tried to talk to me to see if I was awake or
not, and then all of a sudden I sat straight up, and yelled at him,
"It's UNLOADED!!!!!!!!!!" then I laid back down and went to sleep like
normal! I don't remember a dang thing!!!!!!!!! Hahahahahahahahaha!!!!!
:) Fun stuff.
We're having fun out here, doing the work of the Lord. Please keep
me in your prayers, as I keep you in mine. I love you all, and I want
you to know that I know, that our Savior lives. That Jesus Christ is the
Lord of the Harvest. This is His work, and we are all a part of it.
Elder DeFreese
P.S. Write me this week and tell me how
you're doing with "the challenges" that I've given you! I want to know
how it's going! And if you haven't done it, then maybe you should.
Wanna know why? Because a prophet of God has said that every member is a
missionary. So, that means that you need to get out there and do some
missionary work. If you aren't, can you really look the Savior in the
eye at judgment and say that you've done your best? Think about that...
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