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Elders Charles, Mendoza, Seal, Stevenson
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Well, of course we'll start with the big news. This week is transfers, and I will be STAYING in Immokalee! Elder Charles will also be STAYING! Elder Seal is staying and Elder Mendoza is transferring to Homestead as a new DL! I honestly wasn't expecting to stay, especially with Elder Charles for another one, and people think I'm disappointed, but honestly I'm so happy! Especially because it means that we'll both be here for Saintanna's baptism! And it's not very common that you get to stay with your trainee for another transfer. Not only that, but our entire branch stayed the same. All 6 of us stayed right where we are for the 3rd transfer in a row! That's pretty unusual. Looks like we've got some more work ahead of us!
This past week was a good one. On Pday we had a fun little district activity where we played some basketball and some volleyball and some "chair soccer". Chair soccer is where each person has a chair they protect and you try to hit it with the ball to get them out. It was fun but I was so sore for the next couple days haha.
Then the next day we had a zone wide exchange! I went to the ZLs area and spent the day with Elder Poulter. He's known for being a "perfect" missionary haha. It was a great time, even though we ended up waiting in a hospital for 2 hours for one of their investigators, and then she kept getting pulled away by doctors and [...] so we ended up staying in that hospital for a total of four and a half hours! Yikes! It was a critical lesson though so hopefully it was worth it. We went hard after that though, knocking early the next morning to try to meet our goals.
We get our groceries every week from a custom ice food pantry that we do service for, and this week they had gotten a large donation of Easter candy, so on top of our other food we took home a full bag of candy.
Yesterday we went back to the Brown's to do some more service, but also to give Mr Brown a blessing. Early that morning he was on his dirt bike on his way home from work and out of nowhere took a tumble. He wasn't wearing a helmet, and he hit the road head first. Apparently no bones were broken, except for a hairline fracture in his eye socket, but his face did get pretty torn up. I'll put a picture of us with him, just know that it might be a little graphic. He was still pretty positive, and still had his usual sense of humor and his "No big deal, I'm still going to work" attitude. It was kinda shocking to see him like that though after we had just seen him about a week ago working hard and laughing, I can't imagine if something like that had happened to my family what I would've been like.
Other than that things were pretty normal, Saintanna came to church and had a good time as usual. She's going to be baptized this Sunday! We're working on getting the last of the lessons done and interview scheduled and program filled. It'll be a great day, their baby is also going to be blessed that day. They've invited some friends and family and the husband, Astrel, is going to be doing a big barbecue afterwards! This will be another one of those rare occasions where I was there when the person was found, and for the whole teaching process, and when they get baptized. So exciting!
We also had another good week of finding, so once Saintanna gets baptized hopefully we'll have some more people to take her place. The rides will be an increasing issue though, we have more people getting baptized and less people wanting to pick them up. The Lord will provide.
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