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| Elder Barrett, Elder Bolinder and Misael in New Brighton |
It's great to be back!
Hola amigos! Saying goodbye to
Faribault was bittersweet. President Barney actually delayed transfers by a day
due to a huge snow storm that passed through, so I got an extra day in
Faribault! This new transfer is going to be sweet, though!
Man, being back in the cities
feels SO good! It's really nostalgic to be back in New Brighton seeing all the
old faces in the ward that I recognized. A good portion of our ward are
graduate students from the University of Minnesota, so there are a lot of
people that left and plenty of new faces. It’s great because I am already
familiar with the area and it's nice because since they changed the area to a
Zone Leader area, we now have a full time car! So, no more biking in the snow
like last year. Haha! My new companion is Elder Barrett from, you guessed it,
Utah! He's been out just one transfer less than me. Having had an English
companion for almost 8 months has really taken a beating on my Spanish skills
so I'm super rusty. We’re going to up our language study game and get back into
the swing of things.
There are a lot of new people in
the area I haven't met yet, but we've visited some part-member families that we
used to visit when I was here last year. We are teaching a super solid gator
named Hope and she accepted a baptismal date for Feb 3rd. We had a really
powerful lesson on repentance and baptism. She absolutely loves the scriptures
and also came to church! We've been super busy with putting together zone
focuses and transfer calendars. We have 3 greenie Elders being trained in the
zone too so we're going to have a ton of exchanges! Should be awesome!
We had a cool experience when we
went to this Hispanic restaurante with the Spanish ward missionaries to
coordinate and a random member from Wisconsin paid for our meal! We decided to
pay it forward, and on our way home we were trying to think of ideas. We saw
this car that slid off on the side of the freeway so we immediately pulled over
to help. Turns out she was a college student from Wisconsin going to her
friend's party. She said she was thinking it was a bad idea. So we told her, “maybe
we are your sign from God that you shouldn't go!” She decided not to go. We
don't know what happened, or why we needed to be there to help but I know God
gave us that opportunity to help her because she needed it. God is always mindful
of us!! 😊
I'm so grateful to be in the
service of God, and I know this is His work. He loves us and has a plan for
each of us individually. Hope you all have a fantastic week! Adios!
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| Saying goodbye to the Hunt Family in Faribault |
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| Elder Barrett and Elder Bolinder |
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