Hey everyone!
Hope y'all R having a great week. The office is a super cool calling so far. I've gotten a nicer apartment, gotten a full size bed, got more missionary funds for the transfer, and got a truck. It's the only companionship that gets a truck and I'm super stoked, they're actually supposed to give us a brand new truck here in the next couple days! My first night being in the office I didn't even sleep at our place, we got to go to the mission president's house and sleep downstairs. His son Daniel is super funny, he didn't want to go to bed so he just hung out with the office elders and AP's. We stayed at the mission home because we had to take the departing missionaries to the airport the next morning. We had to wake up at 3am to pick them up at 4 and take em to the Dulles international airport. We got to drive the moving van around and pack the bags, it was a super cool experience. After that we got Denny's with the AP's and went home to take a nap. President said we get to nap since we got up extra early, so we slept from 7:30 to 10 then went to district meeting.
Throughout the week we have driven pretty much across the whole mission. Surprisingly enough, all of Virginia isn't like Arlington! Living in Arlington only had apartments and super small houses that were way too expensive, also it was 60% immigrants, 25% blacks and 15% white people. Here in the Rolling Valley ward it's pretty pretty different. We have been to quite a few apartments and I have always gone in and said, "wow, this is pretty nice!" Multiple times and then Elder Wamsley says, yeah they're all different... The living here for the missionaries is all super nice, anywhere we stay is super comfy and homey.
Elder Wamsley is my new companion. He is 6 feet tall has a size ten shoe, likes to skate and snowboard and is from Layton Utah. He did a year at utah State before coming out on the mission, he graduated 2014 and has one transfer after this before he goes home. Elder Wamsley is a goober, he and I have thought of some MILLION dollar ideas. I'm not going to say what they are but they are called "Yeet Hoodies"TM. We have had some nights where we just talk for 30 minutes to an hour talking about spongebob or doing a brainstorm workshop for our entrepreneurship ideas, we do a lot of laughing. It's going to be an awesome transfer. On the first day I called him broseph and he replied and called me manwhich, so I'm calling him Admiral General Broseph.
Today we went to Costco and got flannels that match because gainz, and we got some toy guns that shoot foam balls. I put a tie and name tag on my flannel and we had a little shootout, the battles will continue throughout the transfer.
I'm hoping to pump up this ward area. Not too many investigators here and finding is a little hard, but this place has a lot of potential. We proselyte from 6-9 most days and we get the weekends to go out and do missionary stuff rather than office runs/work. I want to have a baptism this transfer. We met some ladies out street contacting, one was named Elke (Elka) and was out pondering. She was praying and in need of some answers. We gave her a restoration and book of Mormon, I'm excited to meet with her soon. Hopefully she reads and we can see some miracles with her! There was also this Catholic lady walking with a rosary. She was a little cuckoo. She was super Catholic but was really happy to learn more about our beliefs. I want to contact her because we got her phone number, also to see what she thought about the restoration pamphlet. I want to get some missionary work booming here, elder Wamsley and I teach and contact pretty well.
