Transfer calls came in on Saturday night. I am getting transferred to Redlands 3rd and 4th wards to be with Elder Hanson. Elder Hanson has been out just as long as Elder Midzinski. I was very surprised to be transferred.
What happened is that the whole area of Twentynine Palms has not been doing well, so they are combining it all into one area, meaning two Elders (Elder Midzinski and Elder Westover, my District Leader) will be cover two wards and two branches, and their area will take up more than a fourth of the mission!
It's also strange because this will be my 5th companion, 3rd area, and I've only been out for 5 transfers! I don't really know anything about my area except it's a bike area (ugh.), and I will be able to go to the temple once a transfer, and there is a CTR Books there. I am excited, but I am sad to leave Twentynine Palms.
This last week we did a lot of less-active work, and whenever we went to visit a less-active we would tract around the house using the 10x10 method you told me about. So far it has helped us out a lot, since we are required to do so much tracting every week, and it's normally hard to get a lot done when you are doing less-active work. We went and visited a new investigator named James earlier this week, and he had been anti-ed by his dad, so he said he didn't want to be involved anymore. So we asked him what he had problems with, and he asked us questions about the Church, and then I bore my testimony and he softened up and agreed again to come to Church and to read the Book of Mormon. It is amazing how even the smallest teaching moments can be just as rewarding and powerful as the long planned lessons.
Posted by jim at June 5, 2005 11:43 AM