This week has been absolutely wild, probably one of the busiest of my mission. We had visa waiting missionaries fly out Monday as well as new missionaries fly in! They are all awesome and we got to take them all out on the streets for a bit. I went with Elder Walker and Elder Taylor (who is now being trained in Exeter where I was!)
Tuesday we had transfers and Elder Bester left to go reopen an area and train for his last 2 transfers! We'll miss him here!
My new companion is Elder Petersen! If that name sounds familiar, that is because it is, Elder Petersen and I were MTC companions over a year ago! It is crazy to be back together again! We have both changed and learned so much on our missions, and so it is awesome to see how we've improved. :)
We ended up having a lot of planning and moving missionaries those next few days and got very little sleep, but we survived!
Thursday we had Mission Leadership Conference with all the mission leaders which went really well! We were able to set a bunch of other missionaries up with facebook and smartphones!
We got to work a little more on Friday and ended up getting 6 people we're teaching to come to church and watch General Conference! B. and T. (A.'s, a recent convert, siblings) came and watched it. A lady named A. whose brother is a member, E., a lady who we found on the street who was really interested in Prophets on the earth today, as well as R. (who has come to church twice) all watched it as well! The coolest though was M.!
M. had her baptismal interview this week and she passed! She will be getting baptized this Saturday! We're so excited for her! At the end of the Sunday morning session of conference, she leaned over to me and said, "You know the second man who talked about miracles, well he said if we have faith miracles still happen. I believe it was a miracle when you and Elder Bester found me." Can I just say, that was the coolest thing!? Missionary work changes lives and is such a joy. :)
Hope you all have a great week!!!
Love,
Elder Branch :)
