Hey Everyone!
What a crazy week! I am now in Warner Robins, GA and I’m whitewashing again! I don’t have a bunch of time right now, but I’ll try to give a good recap of what’s happened.
Monday, we had my last pday in Phenix City. We went to Columbus and played basketball and volleyball. I also spent a lot of time packing, so that was pretty much my whole PDay haha.
Tuesday, I don’t even remember what we did. I’m pretty sure that we made contacts and I said goodbye to the few people that I met in that transfer. I got some pictures with some peeps and other than that it was a pretty normal day.
Wednesday was transfers! We had to wake up and get ready earlier than normal so we could all make it to the transfer meeting. This is when I found out I was going to Warner Robins and my new comp is Elder Lettich. He is super cool!
Thursday, we had weekly planning. As we are whitewashing, we have the notes from the Elders who were before us, but we don’t know anyone in our area. It was cool to still be able to plan and let the spirit guide our planning. We had a good weekly planning session though, and I’d say that was a success!
Friday, we hit the streets to get to know our new area. Overall, our area is actually not very big, but there are a lot of neighborhoods with a lot of houses, so we definitely still have places to be, so that is good! We met some cool people, but still didn’t meet any of the friends that the other Elders were teaching.
Saturday was pretty much the same as Friday, we spent the whole day finding and trying to meet as many people as we could. We met this one guy in the morning who said to come back later in the day. We said we will see him at 6:30 and he said that would work. When we actually showed back up at 6:30, he was really impressed and didn’t expect us to actually come back, so now he said we can come over every Saturday and have lessons with him! Definitely pays off to keep our commitments (especially when we expect our friends to keep theirs haha!)
Sunday was really nice! We got to go to church and it was fast and testimony meeting, so it was nice to be able to see so many members talk. It was kind of weird being in a ward with kids again, because there were a lot of noises compared to Fort Benning, but it was still super good! We got to meet quite a few members, and it was overall a good Church services day.
For a spiritual thought, I’m not going to lie I haven’t really thought of something to share today. Something that Elder Lettich and I have been studying is how the Book of Mormon can answer questions of the soul. This has been a really cool study, because there are so many scriptures that are in the Book of Mormon that answer perfectly a lot of questions that you wouldn’t necessarily expect to find in scriptures (some of them can be a stretch, but can be explained and make sense). One of the questions I studied was if God hears and answers our prayers. That one was really cool to study, because it helped me realize that the Book of Mormon even being here is an answer to so many of those prophets who wrote in it back when it was being written. One cool example of this is when Enos is praying and one of the things that he prays for is for his brethren the Lamanites to be able to read the things he is writing. Fast forward a couple thousand years, and now we have the opportunity to read what he wrote!! Overall, it has been a really cool study in the Book of Mormon, and I would 100% recommend and invite you to continue/start reading it ;).
I love you all and hope that you are having a fantastic week!! -Elder Claussen
