Transfer 11 Week 4

Sorry everyone forgot to send this out last week so here it is a little late 

We started off the week strong, we had exchanges both Tuesday and Wednesday. 

On Tuesday we went on exchanges with a District Leader companionship, my companion Elder Hanosek

went with the District Leader Elder Burgoyne, and I went with his companion Elder Southwick. He’s from California and he's only been out for a few weeks. We were on bikes all evening and it was kind of fun. Got a little cold, but we had a good time. We talked to a lot of people, knocked on a couple of doors, and taught a few lessons together. 

Elder Southwick

Then Wednesday I was with Elder Hammer. He's super funny and I enjoyed the day with him. We were on foot the whole night, but a couple of times some people would pull over and offer us rides. We even accepted a few of them which was actually pretty fun. It was also really warm that day, well compared to recently. It was 60 degrees which was a nice break from the cold. We went to Subway together and had some good food. We spent the night visiting people and enjoyed our time preaching the Gospel. 

Elder Hammer

Then Thursday Elder Hanosek and I finally got to spend the day together again. We taught this new guy named Fernando. Elder Hanosek and I taught really well together, and he was receiving the message really well.  After that we went and visited our other friend Maria. We always try to keep our visits with her short but every time they go long because she has so many questions and when she starts talking it's hard to stop her. We were there for quite a while and we both had the impression and felt that we should stay and listen to her. She has 9 kids in the house and most of the time they don't really listen to her and her life can be stressful so I think she really appreciated the time we took to listen to her. Right after that we left and said goodbye to Elder Blackwell because he was leaving the next morning to go home and get ready for surgery on his knee. It was sad saying goodbye but I know it won't be the last time that we see each other. 

Elder Blackwell

Friday we had some fun stuff going on. We went on what is called an inspired walk and talked to some people along the way. Right after we went to go do a baptismal interview, and finished the night by attending our ward soccer night. There were tons of people there that night and it was a little too much. Not everyone got to play all that much and our gym is a little small too. But I made friends with these little girls who came with their dad and they were super funny. We had a good time together and they told me my name was funny. 

Over the weekend we had some more fun as well. We got our friends to come to church on Sunday. We visited them Saturday, the night before and made sure that they would come. We woke up the next morning and it had snowed, so we went over to the house and shoveled the driveway and then we all headed to church together; it was really great. They said that they enjoyed it and their youngest son Carlos asked us afterwards if he could go to church again the next day. We told him sadly no but that they can come again next week!

Then on Monday we went to a Fun Center called Rush where we played bowling, laser tag, and go carts among other things; it was a lot of fun. OH YEAH, and they also had roller-skating which was lots of fun but I kept trying to do like jumps and tricks and stuff so I ended up falling a few times hahaha. 

Oh well, that's my update. Love you all… I hope you all know that. Have an awesome week!! 

-Elder Golden 

Cool Camaro "Lightning McQueen" we came across while out walking

Visiting the livestock near my apartment