Elder Larson Serving it up in Maryland: COLUMBIA 1ST!!/ SLEEP?

Howdy!

This week was crazy! When we heard the news that both Elder Jones and I were getting transferred, everything seemed to go out of control haha! We had a ton of stuff that we had to do to get the area ready for the two missionaries coming into the area. Luckily while we were at it we were still seeing some sweet miracles! We had a church tour set up with our investigator Nancy and Sinda on Tuesday after district meeting and Sister Stiles was gonna be there too. We made a quick errand before the lesson and Nancy called us because she was waiting at the church for us 15 minutes early! The church tour went super well and the Spirit was very strong the whole time. It was pretty cool because both Sinda and Nancy recognized the Spirit in the lesson! Sister Stiles was perfect for them, especially Nancy because Sister Stile's father just passed away and Nancy's dad is close to dying. At the end of the lesson we put Nancy on date for July 29th!! The best part about it was that Nancy hadn't stepped foot in a church building since 1994. She came to church yesterday and apparently loved it, I wish I could have been there!

Wednesday was crazy, I got to transfers and immediately went into the trainer trainee meeting and that went well! The A/C in the building wasn't working so we were sweating a little bit, but it was cool to see all the new missionaries bear their testimonies! Later that night we got to hang out with all the missionaries that were returning home at the mission home, and we were there all night! We dropped them off at the airport at 5 in the morning and didn't get home until 6. Then later that evening, only running on a few hours of sleep, we went back to the airport to pick up a missionary who was coming back on his mission after going home early and his flight didn't land until 11! We almost lost him too haha we were waiting for him at the wrong gate.... We didn't get home until around midnight and then he stayed the night with us. He is a cool kid, his name is Elder Salazar and he is from Mexico, he barely spoke any English!

This weekend was awesome, we were able to find 5 new investigators to teach! 2 of them are a young African family and the husband, Williams, has met with missionaries before and read from the Book of Mormon. He said it is something that interests him! Nobody was able to come to church this week but there should be some next week! Yesterday we had a meeting out in Martinsburg with our mission president that we went to, we missed our church block in doing so though... So we had to go to another ward in our area earlier in the morning.

Things are going well here, it's gonna be a fun transfer! Have a good week!

-Elder Larson