Week Ninety Three

Hey everyone! This week was a good one. We had a bunch of stuff that we had to do. We got to take the van and pile all of our mission pals in and drove a couple hours into Manchester. That night Elder Solomon and I were looking through the Revere Elders phone reminiscing on all of the good times we had. Then Elder Petersen popped up and we reminisced on the Rockland days. Good times.

Coming home from MLC we had to rush to our Book of Mormon class in the ward. We got there right after it had finished, and were able to talk with a few of the people we were teaching. One of the men we were teaching Bill came, and we went over to his house the next day to have a lesson. We had an awesome member come with us, and we ended only getting through two points of the lesson. The member bore some strong testimony, and then Bill even bore testimony, and I had the opportunity to teach him how to pray. When we left he prayed for all sorts of great things. When you follow the spirit and teach to their needs, the Lord has a lot more room to soften the hearts of those you teach.

We had some more meetings with the district leaders, and helped them make some goals for their districts. They've planned some good action steps based around Obedience, and reading preach my gospel. Preach my Gospel is essential for your progression as a missionary. You can tell the difference between a missionary who has diligently studied preach my gospel, and who has floated through picking it up every once in a while. Since we have a lot of new missionaries we are helping them build good study habits and Obedience so they can serve amazing missions.
Also found out about transfers this week. It was a good run with Elder Ricks and I. I'll be staying here in Winthrop and receiving Elder Steenson. Elder Ricks is doing something crazy. He's moving 20 minutes down the road to Farmingdale to be a district leader there😂😂 We live 8 minutes from the border of our area and Farmingdales area, and we go there each week to get groceries. So he's taking a big leap.

I think the highlight of my week was definitely yesterday. It was the first time we had a good sunny day, and it hit 68 degrees for most of the day. Elder Ricks got sunburned pretty good, and I actually got a little sunburned too. We were joking "only in Maine could we get sunburned when it's 65😂". Our skin was probably flipping out because it's been 7 1/2 months since it's felt the sun. We even busted out the bikes, even though there's literally only like 5 streets in our village. 
Anyways things are slowly looking up here, and I am excited to see what happens these next two transfers.

Also HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM!!!! You're pretty much the best of all time in the history of ever. Hope you have a great birthday. Love you!

My lake.

My dad van.

MLC