Transfer 8 Week 1

Elder Folgleman

A bike seat is not as comfortable as the drivers seat... but I will live. Just so you all know, we have been biking everywhere in our area, up hills, down hills, up the road, down the road, over bumps and all that fun stuff.

My new companion’s name is Elder Fogleman; he is from New Hampshire and he has been awesome. We have already bonded quite a bit, and we really get along quite well.

We were at our church building on Saturday and I opened a door to the outside and this massive colony of bugs fell out of the door frame and onto the floor of the chapel. It was really nasty. They were crawling all over the place and we went and got a vacuum and it took us almost two hours to suck them all up. We looked it up later and they were called box elder bugs and when the weather gets cold they crawl into the door frame to get warm and it said the best way to yet rid of them was with a vacuum, so I guess we did alright. It was quite possibly the strangest thing that ever happened to me on the mission.

We've also had a couple of meetings during this last week and we went and discussed how to best help missionaries in our zone find more success. The meetings were long compared to my previous meetings in the Spanish zone, but I'm still adjusting to a lot of differences.

We are also going and trying to meet all the people in our Stake, the Leaders, the members and especially the friends that the last missionaries were teaching. It's been busy but really good. Also I'm not used to having more than one ward because of my time in Spanish, so we have 7 wards, 7 Bishops, 7 correlation meetings every week and yeah it's craziness so far. 

My MTC companion Elder Hanosek

So this week I was reviewing a few of the talks from General Conference and I really enjoyed reading one by Elder Rasband called "The Things of My Soul”.  He listed 7 things that will help us in life.
1. Love God the Father and Jesus Christ our Savior.
2. Love thy Neighbor.
3. Love yourself.
4. Keep the Commandments.
5. Always be worthy to attend the Temple.
6. Be Joyful and Cheerful.
7. Follow God's living Prophet.

I really like this list because I know that when we do these things it leads us to more good and become more like our Savior. If we strive to do what is right we can have the spirit with us to guide us through these crazy times.

Well everyone I just want to say I love you all and I hope you have a fantastic week.

-Elder Golden