So transfers happened this week. I am now in Siler City with Elder
Schmidt. He seems like a good guy, and this is a really crazy area. It's
a small city with a population of only 8,000 people, but the work is
going so much better than in Raleigh. We had one of our bikes stop
working when the tire went flat and then we were on foot for the next
two days. The most crazy thing is that that was when we started finding
like crazy. 9 new investigators in two days! That's a week or two of
work in Raleigh! Also, we somehow managed to make it to all of our
lessons with some crazy timing. Twice in one day, if we had showed up on
time rather than the 10-15 minutes late we did, we would have missed
them. We also got to talk to two less actives, both of whom went to
church yesterday. One of them works at the Search and Rescue station
here, and when we showed up, we ended up teaching his junior trainee the
Restoration as well. We're working with someone who has a baptismal
date on the 23rd, and apparently she hadn't been taught the Word of
Wisdom. You need to follow that for at least two weeks leading up to
your baptism, and we didn't get to talk to her until the day that marked
two weeks. So we talked to her about it and committed her to living it,
and she said that she didn't even do any of those things anyways so it
wouldn't be a problem for her at all! It's been a fantastic start to
this transfer. Aside from an exchange that happened the very first day
of the transfer so I didn't really even get to know my companion until
day two, it's been pretty standard. We have some really great members
out here, and it seems like a solid ward. The only problem is that I was
asked to translate on my first Sunday out here. Which reminds me of the
weird thing about our companionship: We're both right out of training,
as green as can be. Which never happens. The even weirder part about it
is that I'm the senior companion. We don't know why, because there can
be co senior companionships, but somehow I am senior. Even though
technically he's had about 7 more hours of being in the actual field due
to all that mess from me trying to get out here on that plane. (He came
from the Provo MTC and skipped all the plane drama.) So yeah, I don't
know what I'm doing some of the time, but we're doing well! Also, the
weather here has been crazy. It was in the mid 60's one day, and then we
had the first snow that lasted for two days. Nothing really stuck
though, which was sad.
The first snow here in Siler City
And this was the first time I saw Elder Schmidt cooking.
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