This week we had our transfer calls. I cannot believe it has been six
weeks since I've had transfer calls. I feel like I've been with Elder
Y for only a few days. Surprise! It's been three weeks.
This transfer is a little strange. Eder Y and I are staying
together, but we are gaining a new companion, and who is it? No one
other than Elder C. We are still covering the two wards we
were covering before (6 more weeks of Torchy's Tacos and Round Rock
Donuts), and we gained an additional area, the Pflugerville Ward. We
do not know if we have a car yet, which would be good to know, because
there is a whole town between us and Pflugerville, so we would like to
have something a little more powerful than than a bike to get us
there. It is going to be a fun time, since we already have plenty of
work to do. Honestly, I was expecting Old Settlers Ward to have their
own set of missionaries and Stony Point Ward would get their own, but
I guess God has some different plans.
With this, I'll have had two more areas than I did 2 months ago, but
never have moved. This also means that I'll spend about a third of my
mission serving in the Round Rock area. Slowly but surely, I am
diversifying my mission.
This also gives me the chance to do something I've never done before:
go to three sacrament meetings in one day, in two different buildings.
The Pflugerville chapel is 8 miles away from the Stony Point Chapel,
and the services start only an hour and a half before Old Settlers
sacrament. If I thought that serving in two wards was a handful, this
will give me a shot in the arm. I feel like I'm a Utah missionary,
pinging around different chapels, working with 2000000 members, it's a
heck of a time.
This week we starting to work with a lovely less active family of 7
who just moved into the Ward. The only members are the parents and the
oldest, and they have three more who are of baptismal age. The reason
why they haven't been baptized is almost too silly to discuss, so I
won't. But, the whole family came to church this Sunday and had a
great time. The family joined the church only a few years ago, but
fell off of the beaten path very fast. Their testimony is strong, but
it amazes me sometimes to hear some of the reasons why people choose
not to attend sacrament meeting. It was only a few Sundays ago that I
wrote, "Please do not let myself go less active! I don't think I could
live without taking the sacrament, and uplifting the saints." Activity
is the genius of this church. Everyone needs it, not everyone partaken
of it. I am so grateful to be able to work with this family. I can see
the kids in little baptismal jumpsuits already.
Next week is stake conference. It will be the first stake conference
I'll have on my mission. I've found myself without a gathering of Zion
due to timely transfers and other little things like that. So this
will be a fun experience.
I feel like there is all too much to write. On one of those miraculous
days of this dispensation, Joseph Smith wrote very little in his
journal. In fact, it was a small sentence that said (and I paraphrase)
"Today the hand of God has touched the saints of Zion." And even with
that small of an entry we know the details of that day very clearly.
Perhaps you will find out the details of this week without reading
them. Who knows what will be said after what is written.
Elder Richard Hall
weeks since I've had transfer calls. I feel like I've been with Elder
Y for only a few days. Surprise! It's been three weeks.
This transfer is a little strange. Eder Y and I are staying
together, but we are gaining a new companion, and who is it? No one
other than Elder C. We are still covering the two wards we
were covering before (6 more weeks of Torchy's Tacos and Round Rock
Donuts), and we gained an additional area, the Pflugerville Ward. We
do not know if we have a car yet, which would be good to know, because
there is a whole town between us and Pflugerville, so we would like to
have something a little more powerful than than a bike to get us
there. It is going to be a fun time, since we already have plenty of
work to do. Honestly, I was expecting Old Settlers Ward to have their
own set of missionaries and Stony Point Ward would get their own, but
I guess God has some different plans.
With this, I'll have had two more areas than I did 2 months ago, but
never have moved. This also means that I'll spend about a third of my
mission serving in the Round Rock area. Slowly but surely, I am
diversifying my mission.
This also gives me the chance to do something I've never done before:
go to three sacrament meetings in one day, in two different buildings.
The Pflugerville chapel is 8 miles away from the Stony Point Chapel,
and the services start only an hour and a half before Old Settlers
sacrament. If I thought that serving in two wards was a handful, this
will give me a shot in the arm. I feel like I'm a Utah missionary,
pinging around different chapels, working with 2000000 members, it's a
heck of a time.
This week we starting to work with a lovely less active family of 7
who just moved into the Ward. The only members are the parents and the
oldest, and they have three more who are of baptismal age. The reason
why they haven't been baptized is almost too silly to discuss, so I
won't. But, the whole family came to church this Sunday and had a
great time. The family joined the church only a few years ago, but
fell off of the beaten path very fast. Their testimony is strong, but
it amazes me sometimes to hear some of the reasons why people choose
not to attend sacrament meeting. It was only a few Sundays ago that I
wrote, "Please do not let myself go less active! I don't think I could
live without taking the sacrament, and uplifting the saints." Activity
is the genius of this church. Everyone needs it, not everyone partaken
of it. I am so grateful to be able to work with this family. I can see
the kids in little baptismal jumpsuits already.
Next week is stake conference. It will be the first stake conference
I'll have on my mission. I've found myself without a gathering of Zion
due to timely transfers and other little things like that. So this
will be a fun experience.
I feel like there is all too much to write. On one of those miraculous
days of this dispensation, Joseph Smith wrote very little in his
journal. In fact, it was a small sentence that said (and I paraphrase)
"Today the hand of God has touched the saints of Zion." And even with
that small of an entry we know the details of that day very clearly.
Perhaps you will find out the details of this week without reading
them. Who knows what will be said after what is written.
Elder Richard Hall
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