Elder Jewkes

Elder Jewkes

Monday, August 24, 2015

24 August, 2015 - 1st Transfer completed

Dear Family and Friends,
 
It has been a crazy transfer because it was my first, but it was great. This one will be crazy as well because 3 Elders from the Hemet Stake will become Zone Leaders...My trainer included. So my trainer is leaving for Corona and I will have a new companion to finish training me. It will be weird because Elder Cornia is my trainer and District leader, but yet I'll be the senior companion. I can think of at least 4 other "Greenies" that will get new trainers as well.
 
Tuesday was any other day. We had lessons with a few recent converts and had dinner at the Child's, who were also recent converts. As we were talking about Elder Hoyt, the previous companion, he called us and we had a good conversation with them.
 
Wednesday we got free haircuts!! How cool is that? While we were traveling, we had a biker flag us down and told us he was trying to find missionaries for 2 weeks. He isn't in our area, but we did talk to them about the gospel and he is really interested. I love when that kind of things happen. We also picked up a few new people and we'll see how that will turn out.
 
Thursday was our weekly planning and helping a member fix his computer. That was when I wished Trevor was there. We had dinner with the bishop and talked business. Unfortunately, we had to drop an investigator because she was no longer interested.
 
Friday was a good day because a Returned Missionary visited us as he was touring the mission and we had dinner with a family in which an investigator lives with. We had a lesson and she finally committed to baptism on the 2nd of September. It was great because the spirit was so strong as we helped her understand reading scriptures.
 
Saturday was the day Elder Manson was called by President Mullen to be a Zone Leader and leave to Corona. I was so shocked because I didn't see it happening. We hung out with one of Elder Manson's friends from Lake Elsinore and had a few lessons. There is this one guy that wants to be baptized but he has a few complication we need to figure out first.
 
Sunday was the day of good-byes for Elder Manson. We saw a few people he got really closed with, especially the family that we ate dinner with on Friday. The investigator didn't take it too well.
That was all we really did.
 
Today we played b-ball and I am hanging out with some other missionaries because Elder Manson is leaving in 10 minutes and Elder Cornia won't be here until 3:30. I still can't believe that this is happening. It will be for my benefit though.
 
Sorry I didn't write much but I need to get going. Have a great week everybody.
 
Elder Jewkes 

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