Portland!!!!!!

The start of this week was really slow. We didn't do very much until the second half of the week and then it just got really crazy and busy. Transfers are this week and because of that today is P-day rather than yesterday. So that's why I didn't send out an email.

On Wednesday I went on exchanges with Elder Wilcox. He's a really nice elder and because neither of us had a SIM card Elder Dewey put his in my phone so that we would have one. We had an amazing lesson with some members and they were really nice and gave us an absolutely ludicrous amount of food.

On Thursday we reunited with our normal companions and Elder Dewey and I performed some service in the rain for Grow Nashua. We moved a bunch of lumber and stuff around which was fun. Later we played basketball which was also a ton of fun!

Friday was District council and we had a funeral theme since three of us are "dying" or in other words going Home. It was pretty funny because it was that council that President and Sister Hayden decided to come visit. They thought the funeral was funny. I then had an interview with President Hayden.

Saturday we had exchanges with the "Spec Ops" aka the Traveling AP's (Assistants to the president). They literally don't have an apartment and remain on exchanges constantly and just sleep in other Elders apartments. I was on exchange with Elder Richardson and he likes to street contact A LOT. Every time I tried to talk to him or tried to right down someone's information or anything I'd look up and he's already trying to get another person's info. I was definitely struggling to keep up haha. On this exchange I met my first basher. He tried to convince us that Joseph Smith had no miracles to his name. As he was talking I was thinking…"Well what about the time when he positioned Zion's Army in the safe spot when the extreme storm came in and protected them from 400 hostile men?" There are just simply too many miracles to deny that God will protect those who serve him.

On Sunday we went to the Lopez-Craussco family's house for their family home evening. We played soccer and had a spiritual message (most of which was in Spanish so I just listened with the spirit), and then they performed songs to say bye to Elder Dewey. Also, because Elder Dewey is "dying" I cracked an egg on his head and the other four Elders that were there threw/slapped flour on him because that's the tradition in the Lopez-Craussco family.

I've definitely enjoyed this past transfer so much. I'm so thankful for Elder Dewey and all the kindness he's shown me as we've been serving together. Now I'm on to the next portion of my mission. The transfer docs came in at 8:00 a.m. (EST) today and starting Thursday I'm going to be serving in Portland Maine which is a French area and I'll be serving with Elder Wood. He's only in his Third transfer and I'll be in my second. It's going to be very weird and hopefully we'll have enough French between the two of us to do our work properly. I'm very excited and want to thank you all for your continued support. And I'll catch you all in the next one!

Elder Dewey after Egg and Flower.

Elder Richardson and I. 

Start of transfer picture of our District.

Texas Roadhouse.

Pictures of District at the end of transfer including President and Sister Hayden.