2-12-24
Hey Everyone!
Hard to believe I'm already in the final week of my first transfer. Not too much exciting happened this week. We were invited to a family home evening with the Gochnours last p-day. That was a good time. Pretty much the whole point was reminding us that missions are hard and we have the capability to do hard things. It was good to see Elder Timothy after the little while of not seeing him. He seems to be gaining confidence and a better stature about him. We got to stay the night with a couple other sets of missionaries because we finished at 8 and our drive back to our area is 4 hours. Getting back, it was almost an average week. We had transfers with the Virginia Elders on Thursday, and I stuck around Ashland for that one. Elder Morris is a pretty cool guy, but was having some issues with staying on task doing Facebook. When he's actually doing a physical act, he's in it.
Update on our people, Charmaine's date got pushed back a week, but only because we need to be able to teach her kids. She really wants to do the baptism as a family, so our lessons will be primarily focused on the kids. They are such an awesome family, and they seem to enjoy church. Of course, sitting through sacrament meeting can be hard for the younger ones, but they all like the classes in 2nd hour. And then there's John. He's so on the mark that we taught him the big three(being chastity, tithing and word of wisdom) and he already finding substutions for his Word of Wisdom problems and was on board for tithing and chastity. He's reason is, "It's about time I said thanks." So cool.
I've started doing the little personal study boxes they have for each section of Preach My Gospel as part of my studies, and it's really opened my eyes to the privilege I have to be on a mission. I get to be surrounded by the spirit so often and I know it's gonna be the thing I miss most at the end. It's also amazing the privilege we have a members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints to have the have Holy Ghost. Moroni 10:5 says "And by the power of the Holy Ghost ye may know the truth of all things." I beg you all to not forget about that amazing privilege we have.
I've been so blessed in this area. Next transfer is shaping up for 4 baptisms, so I won't be surprised if I don't too many more the rest of the time.
Love you all!
Sincerely,
Elder Buchanan
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