Down in the Arkansas

Ok so first I'm going to address the communication policy change, which I'm sure all of you people who keep up with the church have heard about. If you aren't aware of the changes, just Google it. But the SparkNotes version is pretty much I can communicate through means other than email every week on P Day to family members now. This includes calling and videochatting. That means what was previously just 2 calls a year is now like 52. If you want calls, just FB message or email me when is good and I'll definitely try to make it work. Also unless I have an unaddressed burning concern, an unanswered presssing question, or an unsatisfied deep intrigue, I will probably keep calls to around 10 minutes.  Also I don't know if this policy change extends to friends, but until I am told otherwise I will allow 1 to 1 Facebook Messaging with friends to a limited extent, I just won't call. I will still use email though so that method is still an option.  Alrigh...

I want to start off with some super cool news. So the transfer before I came to Midtown, Elders Paopao and Perkins found a really awesome man named Richard. Richard has been out of town for medical reasons, but still occasionally texts us (he is way excited about coming back and getting baptized, whenever that is). However, I had been having the prevailing feeling to visit his house. The problem was, we could never find it. Richard's dot on the Area Book App corresponded with nothing, and houses further down the street didn't seem to approach his house number. But thanks to emailing former Elder Perkins, we were able to locate his house, and we did, and we met Richard's identical twin brother. And his twin brother is also super excited about the gospel. The everlasting and infinite atonement is something that really resonates with them. Through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ anything and everything that may be weighing you down can be overcome. Sadly Richard's brother h...

Transfer #3 has begun. And it kicked off with some pretty good success. We did splits with the zone leaders and we each found a good number of people; many return appointments. Paired with a lot of people last week with return appointments for this week, the latter end of this week was fixing to be pretty busy with lessons. Sadly, pretty much every appointment fell through, mostly just the person in question not being home when they arranged for us to meet with them. We will be working to find ways to avoid this situation because it really made our Friday and Saturday let downs.  However, we did find a man who came to church this week. He is an older gentleman, lives alone, lives in a run down area, and doesn't have a car. He did like the church service and said he was looking forward to coming back. And he seems pretty interested in the Book of Mormon. Sadly he can't read the small text in the regular copies and large print copies can only be ordered when the person who n...