Hi guys!
Well we actually had a pretty good week. We had to drop another investigator, so now we've only got one, but we had 100% of our appointments happen, and they went very well. I haven't had 100% appointment happenings in ages! We are also looking at picking up two new investigators this week, and another one hopefully also soon. So yeah, the area is pretty much going through a big reboot. We got down to almost nothing and now we're basically starting over fresh. So hopefully things continue moving in a positive direction.
It's transfer time again. Transfer calls came on Sunday, and as predicted, I'm staying in Cedar West with Elder Cockerham. There have been a few changes here and there throughout the mission, but nothing too crazy this time around. The most notable change is that AP Rodriguez is going home this transfer so we have a new AP, Elder Zuniga, who is awesome, and I was kinda calling him as AP a few transfers ago.
And here's something cool. All of my mission "posterity" is now in the Cedar Zone. My "son" Elder Bright is still in Cedar as a ZL, I'm here training my second son, Elder Cockerham. And my "grandson", Elder Schroeder, a fellow Michigander, is just over in Parowan.
Although not much has changed for me this transfer, it feels weird. Really weird. This is it. My final six weeks. I have no more transfers to hide behind. Next transfer, I will be on a plane headed back to
Michigan, which is both exciting and terrifying and happy and sad and just about every emotion in between. It's so weird. And it just became very real. Again, I have no more transfers to hide behind. I now know for sure that this IS my last area and that Elder Cockerham IS my final companion. There's no more "I'm probably going to be here until the end". Now it's "This is the place in which I will die". My Doom has been decided.
And that's pretty much been my week. There are, however, a couple funny experiences I'd like share before finishing. First, Elder Cockerham almost killed someone! We were driving and he wasn't paying attention to the crosswalk and he almost ran down a guy! Luckily I saw him, and was able to alert Elder Cockerham before he committed manslaughter. And the guy was actually a returning less active that we are friends with! We saw him at a Christmas party a few days later and we all had a good laugh.
The other funny thing was an epic prank we pulled on the Spanish Elders (Elders Willis and Plauche). We were on exchange so I was actually with Elder Dennis, and Elder Dennis had been getting pranked a lot by Cedar Spanish, especially by Elder Willis. So we decided to pull a little prank between our lessons. We duct taped some of Elder Willis's stuff to the ceiling, flipped all the furniture upside down, and shaving creamed a bunch of stuff. Using shaving cream, we drew on their mirror, I drew a Batman symbol on a chair, and Elder Dennis drew a frowny face with x's for eyes on Elder Willis's bed (which is the same thing Willis did to Dennis). Last but not least, we took a frozen can of shaving cream and impaled it several times, and then threw it in one of Elder Willis's empty suitcases. So as it thawed it would fill his suitcase. It was probably the best prank I've ever pulled. And what made it better was that Willis didn't find the shaving cream in his suit case until the next day, so it had plenty of time to get everywhere!
So yeah, good times. :)
Well that's all for today. Have a great week!
-Elder Oswald
Meet "The World's Greatest Detective", Inspector Elder Batman!
Temple Pictures:
Picture 1: Elder Cockerham, Elder Parsons, myself, Elder Howard
Picture 2: Me and Elder Cockerham
Picture 3: Me and Elder Howard
This morning we took an early morning drive up Cedar Canyon and it was really pretty! Though it's kinda warmed up in the valley, it's definitely winter in the canyon. The ice especially made for a special sight.
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