April 9, 2017

This is Scott. Look at Scott! C. Scott Grow. Good job, Scott.

Sorry about the terrible joke in the subject line but I couldn't help thinking it during general conference. I need to repent of light mindedness, haha. Anyways, this week was pretty crazy, just because it was the last week of the transfer. This one FLEW by. I've already been in my new area for 6 WEEKS so I guess it can't be my NEW area anymore. So just for those at home keeping score, here's my mission summary:

I'm now on my 10th out of 17 transfers now. 

I'm in my third area, Park Ridge. I'm staying this transfer so this'll be my 2nd transfer in Park Ridge.

Elder Malobago is still my companion, just like last transfer. Which is good.

And honestly, I don't have a whole lot to say about this last week just because it was the last week of the transfer and we did SO much. Tuesday we had zone meeting and flu shots. Wednesday was normal except for the fact one of the zone leaders went on exchanges with us. Elder Smoot, the one I'm distantly related to. His companion went with the other elders who share the flat with us. We had dinner at the bishops and all his young kids beating each other to a pulp reminded me of how me and my siblings use to wrestle like that when we were their age. Brought back precious memories. Thursday we deep cleaned the flat for transfers, and then Elder Malobago had a dentist appointment in the city so that took a couple hours. We had an awesome lesson with our investigator Revern. He's been making a lot of changes in his life and he's hit rock bottom but since investigating the church things have really been starting to look up for him, so he's been telling us his faith has grown heaps. Still thinks it's too soon for him to get baptized though :/ Friday we had a service with a member, Brother Maire. Actually he took us to do some service for a less active family whose workshop got flooded from the cyclone last week. We also did some service at Brother Maire's house though. For lunch he fed us kangaroo steak he hunted himself. Honestly, it tasted fine, but it was tough as rubber. Saturday and Sunday our stake watched general conference. I really enjoyed President Nelson's talk about letting the power of Christ into our lives and Elder Bednar's talk about the call to serve (obviously, I'm a missionary, come on). So yeah the pictures are of me and Elder Smoot and our flat right before transfers. Elder Ray got transferred unfortunately. He's one of the best friends I've made on the mission even though we only worked around each other for a transfer but he will be missed. Alright well I hope everyone's having fun.

Elder Cummings