Hello all!
Man this week was pretty great! I got my new companion,
Elder Williford, he is so much fun and he wants to work hard as well so it's
the best of both worlds. He's from Arizona, that's two companions from Arizona
now so I guess it's the new Utah? He's super into cars which brings me to the
car situation. We share a Ward with another companionship, but this time it's
Elders so we can actually have some fun. Their names are Elder Johnson and
Elder Royce. Elder Royce is new but he's breaking in pretty well. Elder Johnson
is just a fun loving goofball. We get the car during the week and they get it
on the weekends but this week we're putting the car in the shop so we won't
have it at all. We play some weird game whenever we're in the car together.
It's just a bunch of the car name games like slug bug and coop scoop all put
together and we tally points and whoever loses has to do something. It's pretty
fun and the car share is already awesome.
On Tuesday, the day of transfers, we had a very
interesting day. First of all, after we left we had a lunch appointment with a
member Elder Williford and Elder Johnson had served around and we went to the
right address, just not the right city. So we ended up in Chicago which so
happens to be outside of the mission...so that was exciting. Leaving the
mission boundaries is a big deal but luckily President understood.
Then we went to the lunch, at the right place this time.
Lunch was at Chipotle, my favorite, but apparently Elder Johnson's body doesn't
agree with that because afterwards Elder Johnson got a super fat lip, turns out
he was allergic to something there but we aren't sure what.
Then on Wednesday nothing super exciting happened I just
got to meet a few members and we tried to contact some referrals and had pretty
good success with that.
On Thursday we had Zone Training and it was awesome!
Normally we would have zone focuses which is a focus each group of missionaries
make but now President decided that we should have mission focuses instead and
I sustain that idea wholly. The focus for this month is perfect mornings which
was definitely given through divine inspiration due to the fact that I
personally struggle with that and I know that most missionaries struggle with
it as well. The main focus is that as we perfect our mornings everything else
will follow and it's the mornings that make or break our obedience and
diligence.
On Friday we did weekly planning which went okay. We
definitely need to find a different way to plan effectively and I have a few
ideas.
On Saturday and Sunday we had Stake Conference. My second
in three months...but I don't mind because it was soooo good. The entire
conference was pretty much focused on the members trying to work with us to
become one, I definitely feel pumped from it so I hope everyone else does as
well.
On Saturday before the conference we went to a baptism
for someone Elder Williford taught and it was awesome. He'd been taught for so
long that basically a quarter of the mission was there to support him,
President and Sister Griffin even showed up. We had some YSA members take us to
the baptism and they are so much fun, I definitely hope I get to serve in the
YSA at some point. For dinner before conference we went to Wendy's and out of
the blue some lady put 20 dollars towards our meal! We had so much food that we
couldn't even finish it all. It was super awesome and I'm kind of upset because
she left before we could really say anything to her but I know she will be
blessed for it.
That's pretty much all that happened. And to answer some
questions.
Rockford is very ghetto, a large majority of the area we
aren't supposed to go to past 6 pm. Luckily God protects his Missionaries so
I'm not worried at all, in fact I'm excited!
Love,
Elder Eddenfield
