March 14, 2005

Transfers - Excerpts from March 14 E-mail

I have been doing very well this last week. Mickey was confirmed yesterday in church, and we have a baptismal date for another investigator, Robert O'Brien. We also have a few interested investigators and so things are really picking up.

Unfortunately, the most interested investigator we found last week moved out of the mission. She asked a lot of questions about mission things like how long we had been out, if we had a car, how far was our apartment, how long do you have to do it for, do you want to be ministers, etc. After answering all these questions she asked "I bet people confuse you for Mormons all the time, huh?" So we explained to her that we ARE Mormons, and she said "But I thought Mormons weren't Christians." So we basically taught her a first lesson and explained the Church, and she asked a lot about its views and agreed with all of them. So we gave her a pass along card and said that if she was interested and had questions to call that number after she moved and they would send missionaries to answer her questions, wherever she is.

As the title of the e-mail suggests, transfers came in on Saturday. I'm being transferred to 29 Palms, which is in the desert. It's been getting over 100 degrees already, BUT I will be in a car, so I think I will be able to survive. I'm a little nervous, but I know I can do well as long as I follow the rules. I will be over two wards, one of which is a Tongan ward, so I will probably be gaining a lot of weight.

Posted by jim at March 14, 2005 07:08 PM