I got transferred, but not moved :). Okay so I did move house.

To let you all know so you can stop freaking out, which is I'm sure what you've all been doing all day yesterday and today, I got transferred, but not moved :). Okay so I did move house. But the area that I'm serving in falls within the boundaries of the area I just left, if that makes any sense at all. I'm now serving as a Zone Leader in one of the English wards my Spanish area covered the last few transfers. It's pretty dang weird, but it'll be fun. 

My companion's actually also a Spanish missionary, so it's pretty cool. He's probably the most dedicated, hard working Spanish Elder in the entire mission, so I'm excited for that. He's from Texas. He goes home at the end of this transfer. He's pretty great.

Let me tell you, it was pretty sad to leave Spanish. I don't know how I'm going to be able to do it, not eating spicy food and having tortillas with every meal. So it's sad, but I know there's going to be a lot of new opportunities, so that'll be great. Hopefully I'll be back in Spanish before the end of my mission, though.

Time passes really quickly. It's pretty much crazy. I think also, the longer you spend in an area, the faster time seems to pass there. You kind of get into a routine and things speed up. So this week might seem to take a long time, because it's different. I don't know if you've experienced anything similar.

We didn't have anything really special on Valentine's Day. Bishop was planning on doing an activity, but it never ended up happening. So it was basically a completely normal day.

My last week in Spanish for a while was a good one, though, which made it harder to leave, honestly. We were able to find a few new investigators, which was exciting, and a less-active family that hasn't been to church in many months came! It was pretty cool. One of the investigators was pretty interesting--there's a stake that doesn't even technically fall within the boundaries of our ward, but we're the closest Spanish ward to them, so a set of sister missionaries sent us a referral from there, and we picked them up as investigators on Friday! It was pretty crazy, it was a like 20 minute drive out to where they lived, and so that was fun.

My former district is in my zone! And Zone Leaders lead zones! By doing things like helping missionaries in any way we can, like for example, yesterday we drove up a few missionaries on transfer day to a stake center like 30 minutes away. So basically like a district leader, but with more people to worry about.

 

I'm pretty excited for this transfer. It's going to be a lot of fun. I hope all of you had a great week, and that this week goes well!

Love,

Peter!