This week started pretty normal with Elder Velasco. We were just doing normal missionary things during the week and doing some pretty normal service around the ward. This included pushing a taxi that had run out of gas about half a mile and then the same night helping a family move but getting into the back of the moving van with all of the stuff to get to the new house. Safe to say it was a pretty fun week and was going pretty well. We had about 5-6 friends progressing and it felt close that they were actually interested and wanted to eventually get baptized.
Then we get home Friday night and the APs call us and tell us that we have Emergency Transfers and they can't say why they are transferring us. I don't know why but that was the worst to hear about why they were transferring and I just got the worst feeling ever. Having led a sector I only have been here for 4 weeks and have to figure out how to know the sector and have to kind of figure it out. But here I am two days later so we are all good.
My new companion is Elder Knudson and he's from Virginia and has 22 months in the mission. So that has been kind of hard, him talking about home and what he's going to go do when he gets home so that is hard but other than that he's a really good missionary and I have a lot to learn from him. He has helped me with a lot of things and just is doing his best to get to know the sector.
But about pushing the taxi, both of our lessons fell through and a guy was pushing his taxi that ran out of gas. We decided to help and then I looked at Elder Velasco wondering how long we would push it for. Then we pushed it for about half a mile, then after a few lessons our ward mission leader called us to help move a family. We helped move a fridge and freezer which might be the sketchiest thing I've ever done, going down steps that are less than 6 inches wide holding a big fridge. Then after we got everything packed up I asked how we were going to get to the house and we just climbed in the back of the moving van.
Anyways, kind of a crazy week but it's been fun. We listened to a BYU devotional from Brother Wilcox called the Grace of the Atonement or the Grace of Jesus Christ. Go listen to it, it's only I think around 30 minutes and is very very good.
Hope all is well at home and miss all you guys
E Roper
