It's so cool that everybody is
going on missions! The flow of missionaries just isn't slowing down
haha. Our mission is starting to shrink a little, because the sisters
from the line of huge groups started going home this week. In 7 months
the huge group two transfers above me goes home, and the mission will
shrink a ton! But for now, we're steady.
Our work is going this week haha. Lots of things have slowed down. We were finally able to see Ferrid on Friday.
He called us in the middle of weekly planning and said he had 45
minutes if we could meet him in town right then. So we threw on shoes
and booked it into town. We had a good lesson, we're teaching the
Plan of Salvation right now. He really likes that, especially the part
about the pre-earth life. We bumped his baptismal date to the 27th of September,
but I won't be here for it. That's been kind of the story of my mission
haha. I teach and set lots of baptismal dates, but I bump out of the
ville before the baptism. My trainer did the same thing for most of his
mission, it's the McKechnie Curse! ;)
Also, big surprises this week!
So
normally, our transfer is supposed to end in 2 weeks. I figured that I
was going to leave Le Mans, since I'm finishing training and this is my
4th transfer here. But, I planned on leaving in 2 weeks. So yesterday,
the Assistants call me as we're walking home from church. They said that
Président Babin had decided to call me as the new mission Clerk. But,
that requires two weeks of training from the current Clerk before I can
take over. So, instead of leaving in 2 weeks, like I was planning on,
I'll get on a train for Paris TONIGHT! I'll spend two weeks there in
training in Versailles then take over managing all of the housing for
the mission. Elder Rafanomezana will catch a train tonight to go to
Tours, where our Zone Leaders are at. They'll finish up his training,
and in two weeks he'll come back to Le Mans with a new companion. So,
for 2 weeks there won't be any Elders here! Our Ward Mission Leader was really
disappointed, and Josua, one of our Young Adults, was pretty crushed
when I texted him. We're gonna go say goodbye to him this afternoon, and
Ferrid is coming to say goodbye tonight.
It's gonna be a really fun new calling! I spend a
lot of time in the office, but we also drive all over the mission to fix
up apartments and stuff like that. This week I'm going to Mons, in
Belgium. Next week I'm going somewhere in northern France, then out to
Metz, in the east near my first ville. Exciting! Since I'm in the
office, my P-Day will be on Saturday from now on, so I'll write about our Belgium road trip on Saturday!
Other than that, nothing big. The assistants
scheduled a later train for me tonight so I can have one last P-Day with
my Bleu before we leave, so we're taking advantage of that all day
today! :)
Have a great week, love you so much!
Elder Humphreys playing Abraham for our training at Zone Conference
We found Bruno Mars' French brother!
Our HUMONGOUS cathedral
Mega Pitta! (It tastes like a Crunchwrap supreme from Taco Bell)
Me and Elder Miller on exchanges
Elevator mirror pictures after the storm... soaked!
Biggest rainstorm of my mission!
(You know it was bad, cuz it's the
first time I've gotten water inside my zombie stomper shoes in over a
year)
Elder Andrino and I, exchanges
Found this cool little waterfall thing while contacting in a park!
What an exciting new experience for Tyler!! Ben was a little sad that Tyler won't get to "kill" him (funny mission lingo) but there is a good chance they will see each other before Ben leaves!
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