Dear family and friends,
My Mother's Day call
rocked! I loved talking to Ryan, Garit, Dad, Becca and Lorena. It was a
breath of fresh air. A lot of this e-mail may be stuff I told them in my
call already so please bear with me if this is old news to you.
As many of you have heard I am being transferred after 6
1/2 months of being in this area. My companion, Elder Buttars, is
training a new missionary so I gotta go. Yesterday we went to the
trainer's meeting so I got to see all the missionaries who are going to
be training for these next two transfers. Most of the missionaries in
there were in their last two transfers, which is why President Taylor
assigned them as trainers since the new training program is for two
transfers. I'm not surprised that I'm getting transferred and neither
was Elder Buttars. I've been in my area for a while now and I feel like I
did the work that I came here to do. 7 baptisms in 6 1/2 months. No
complaints here. After the meeting we were waiting for our ride, who was
dropping off Elder Catlett off at the mission home. In order to save
some time President Taylor gave us a ride to the mission home. It was
cool riding with President Taylor! He asked me where I wanted to go and
he teased me by saying he'd give me transfer news early. I knew he was
joking but I wanted to see if he'd really do it. Well I guess I'll find
out tomorrow. I'll be able to e-mail my new address to you all so you'll
find out soon.
Right before I wrote this e-mail I helped my zone leader,
Elder Pierson, move most of our zone into their new apartments. What
happened is that whenever missionaries live in members homes the members
sign a 2 year contract and when that 2 year contract is up the
missionaries have to pack up and move somewhere else. Well President
Taylor decided to rearrange almost the entire zone (we moved 4
companionships and there was another companionship that moved as well
without our help) and told them to move on p-day. The zone leaders are
in charge of helping missionaries move in to their new places but since
one of our zone leaders went home because his 2 years were up guess who
had to tag along with our one zone leader? Yours truly. Elder Buttars
and I were not happy about helping most of our zone move on p-day but we
were surprised at how quickly the moves were taken care of. We still
have most of our p-day and one of the members that helped us move is
buying us all food. Guess that's not so bad right?
As I've already explained before we found a snake in our
apartment. I remember taking a nap and seeing something wriggling around
and thinking it was a giant worm. I told Elder Buttars to come see this
huge worm and he identified it as a snake. I quickly pinned down the
critter with a baseball bat and then Elder Buttars put a tupperware
container over it. We eventually let it go. It still makes a cool story
though.
Well that's all for now.
Love you guys a lot,
Elder Boothe
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