To Family: Oh man! I am extremely jealous that Elder Holland was in St. George and that you got to hear him! I was thinking about it and it would be soooo cool if Elder Holland could be the one to marry me to my wife! That would be something to remember! I got your package the other day! It made my day!
Okay well.... there were some good and bad this week. Lots of our appointments fell through but we did teach E twice. We moved his baptismal date to the 19th because it will be better. He is still doing really well. We are going over to his place after this to play some pool, get the program ready for his baptism, and to say goodbye. Yes... Both of us will be saying goodbye. We got the call that we are getting whitewashed out of here. I was pretty angry at first and was thinking "how could they do this to us with so much work going on! What if the next missionaries mess it up?!" Well I got a call from a missionary who has become a very good friend and I was telling him how upset I was and he just started to laugh and said "Elder Graf. The Lord needs you somewhere else." It was simple and I already knew that concept and I don’t know why I had let it get away from me. But yes it’s true. He has a plan for us and we got the work started here and someone else (Sisters, we found out.) will be continuing it.
So Sunday was ward conference and we skipped out on ward council in the morning to write notes and start packing but we had told our ward mission leader about us being transferred. Apparently there was pretty much the upset of the year in there. EVERYONE got very upset and angry and were all pretty much how I felt the night before. Our ward mission leader called president. The stake president said that he would be calling later in the day just to figure out the why. And all through church people kept coming up and telling us how we were the best missionaries in such a long time. It was honestly insane. I didn’t see this much sadness even when I left B and I had been there for 7 1/2 months. It was nice to have our efforts recognized though and the ward members told us all day how much we meant to them and went through the things in both of us that they just loved. It was a very uplifting experience. I don’t remember what the talks were on or anything at church because my head was spinning allll day. But after sacrament meeting I went and pulled the stake president aside and I told him that I was told he would be calling president but that before he did that I wanted him to know how I felt about what was happening. I told him that obviously president is a VERY inspired man and he has another calling for us both and I told him about how at first I was very upset but through Elder C talking to me and through a big long prayer I felt like this is what’s supposed to happen and that everything would be taken care of. What the ward wasn’t understanding is that this is the LORDS work. And he will have president put missionaries here who will help it. I loved this ward here but I’m needed somewhere else and it made sense later that night.
So the rest of Sunday we went around and got pictures with people and said our goodbyes and packed and wrote notes for the next missionaries. Well we were at the M that night and I got a phone call from President Godwin and he asked me to be a Zone Leader... I’m quite nervous for it. And don’t really feel like I’ll make a good Zone Leader but I promised President I will try my best.
To Dad: I miss being able to look through the telescope and wish I would have done that more back home. I got to do it in B because J has a decent one and we got to see some stars and planets and all. It was really fun! I’m really excited for this transfer now. I wasn’t at first when they said we were both leaving but then I got over it. Even though I was only in the best area for 6 weeks I’m over it. We found out last night that it is becoming a sister’s area which means the chances of me coming back here anytime in my mission are pretty much gone. But I have been making plans with Kody Andersen and next winter we are going to come up here to go snowboarding together because they have a lot of fun runs here from what I’ve heard. I also worked it out with one of the youth here who is 16 and he said he will take us through the good runs and all that so I’ll be back for sure. And I’ll be coming back on the 19th for E’s baptism
I love you tons! Can’t wait to get to be with you again!
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