To Dad: well....... I’m going to be a trainer!!! Woahh! I was thinking about it this morning... I was made district leader at 6 months, trainer at 7, and have had 11 baptisms so far... I feel extremely blessed and see the blessings of working hard! I don’t know if you did this when you were on a mission or not but it’s like a mission family thing. Your trainer is your dad; your follow-up trainer is your mom. Sooo I’m about to have a baby boy! hahaha so Elder T and Elder H are going to be parents and the other missionaries that Elder H or Elder T trained or follow-up trained will be aunt and uncles! haha its pretty funny and somehow pretty much everyone out here is related. Well I told pretty much all my stories in the other email to mom so there’s not a whole lot of other stuff to tell... we have to go back to the apartment and clean it up after this because that place is a mess and Elder U and I are tired of it. We went to the dollar store this morning and bought things that can help us stay organized more and our new companions better go along with it since we are now getting rid of our slobs haha its funny comparing my desk to my comps. His is unusable. Mine is very clean. Strange that I could never say that about my bedroom back home. Haha oh a funny story about the family we ate dinner with last night! It was the H’s. We baptized Sis Hs husband J on the 19th of February. Well Sis H wants me to marry into her family. Its kinda funny... one reason is because I want to be a pediatrician... Not sure about the other reasons. But her oldest daughter is 12. hahah its really funny having Sis H joke about it and call me her future son in law because her daughter gets soo embarrassed! I love that family to death and hope to marry into a family like it. We are going there for conference this week. So yes to answer your question, we will go to the church for the sessions we don’t have people to watch it with but we are going to J's, and S and A (the girls we just baptized) and we aren’t sure really who else yet but we are working on it. Well that’s about all! I love you tons! Have a great week!
To Mom: Thank you for sharing your spiritual experience with me! It was definitely great to feel that the Savior loves me and knows me and actually cares about me.
Saturday night... transfer call night... we sat waiting around the living room with the phone on my lap. We all sat and had random discussions just waiting for the call. Who was going to leave and who is going to stay? It’s crazy how nerve-racking the transfer calls can be. I finally decided to start writing a letter to a friend to get my mind off it... My letter now that I think about it probably didn’t make a lot of sense. It was more of just me rambling because I was still focused on the call. Partway through a sentence the phone rings. I look at who it is. Its Uncle J (AP) I jump up and run in the other room away from the noise the other Elders were making. I answer the phone "This is Elder Graf." I hear Uncle J's voice "Elder Graf I’m calling in behalf of President Godwin and I couldn’t be happier about what we are about to ask you to do. President Godwin feels that you are ready to fulfill the duty of being a trainer." I was in somewhat of shock because training calls usually come the day before but I happily accepted and turned around to see Elder U wondering what was going on. "I’m a trainer!!" I yelled! We both had a minor freak out about it. But this wasn’t it... We still didn’t know who was going and who was staying! We continued to sit and wait, this time in Elder U and Elder C’s room. Finally around 9:50 we got the call. I’m staying, Elder H is leaving, Elder U is staying, Elder C is leaving, and the N Elders are both staying. This means that I will be here in B for another 3 months!!
Well that was my little story about transfer calls and yes I will be training these next 2 transfers and crazy enough there is an Elder coming out from St. George and there is a 1/8 chance I could train him! I don’t know him but it would still be cool! Well this week went by pretty slowly. We did some service helping a part member family move about a mile away and found that their new house needs a lot of work. Tile, electric, woodfloor, and painting. Elder U knows how to do electric work. And I have volunteered as a painter! (Thank you mom for teaching me how to paint walls... at least somewhat ;) hah) so we are going back this next week to help with that. We will get some pictures with my new companion and us painting. I’ll still have a while before I need to send my memory card home. It’s got a lot of room! Like 600 more pictures! So I’ll start taking more pictures! we did some more tracting this week which we hadn’t done a whole lot of for a few little reasons but I’m going to pick it up with my new companion! oh oh! We had a miracle moment!!!
My first week in B Elder H and I went tracting and while we were there we saw a guy in his 20s going down the street in a wheel chair and I walked up and talked to him and gave him a card. At the time I didn’t know our phone number and neither did Elder H so we couldn’t give it to him and he ended up leaving... throughout my time in B I have thought about him a few times wondering if he would call the number but nothing.. Well we were trying to contact less actives and we went to one on 2nd St. and he wasn’t home. I just decided to go knock on a couple doors (I’m sure the Spirit helped with that decision).Well we knocked on the door two houses down and what do you know. The same guy answers the door and I said "Hey! I remember you!" he remembered me too and invited us back to come share our message with him! We went the next day and taught the restoration and it went really well! We will have some challenges with him but that’s okay. When he invited us back the next week he said that his mom would sit and listen with him because she reads our "Mormon book." crazy right? Okay well it gets crazier. The other two Elders in our ward got a referral probably 8 weeks earlier for a woman who was looking for a church. They taught her and she liked what she heard but she has been out of town pretty much since then. Well they found out she was actually in our area so they gave her info to us. Well the other day I was looking through our area book that has all the info for people who are being taught or have been taught and saw this lady and happened to realize that her address was the same as J. J is her son. Crazy right?? Love it!
So I’m sitting here next to a guy who started talking to me and he is hilarious! Apparently he is a comedian and he just started cracking jokes to me. He has a funny looking beard and is a little crazy but he is entertaining! Well that’s all for this week! I love you tons! I miss you like crazy! I figured by the time I got to be out around 6 months I wouldn’t miss home... I was wrong haha I don’t think you ever stop. But it’s okay I’m having a good time out here and I think it’s about to get a lot better!
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