Transfers -- Week 15

Well this week was transfers.. but I am not going to say anything until the end of my email.. so don't skip to the end to see. This week has been pretty good, we had more lessons than we usually do.

On Tuesday, we stayed in New Prague for a little bit so that we could see Darius and we had to wait for him to get to New Prague and then we met up with him and we had a lesson plan for him but we ended up just answering a lot of his questions. Then we went to Belle Plaine and we went and saw a guy named Kent and he said we could come by sometime. We decided we were going to ride our bikes to save miles and then halfway to the subway we were going to and then I popped my bike tire. We had to walk back to the car and drive anyway and it kind of sucked, but it was kind of cool because after we got our food this lady came and gave us $10 subway gift cards. She isn't a member but her family is  and she wanted to feed us. Then we went to go see Marty but we wanted Mitch to come with us but he was at work so we went and picked him up after he was off work and went and saw Marty and had a good lesson with him. Then we got back to the apartment to meet the Faribault Elders and they stayed the night. And the assistants called and Elder Jones was going to come stay with us for a bit.

The next day Elder Last and Elder Bono went to Faribault and Elder Araoz and I went and taught Darius and had a good lesson with him. Then we went down to Le Sueur and tried to stop by a few people we were only able to see a couple people but the cool part is we stopped by a lady named Marie and she couldn't speak a lot of English but Elder Araoz is from Argentina and Spanish is his first language so that was cool. We were able to set a return appointment for Wednesday. We went to the Segers for dinner and then went to the church for mutual.

On Thursday, Elder Araoz and I drove to Fairbault and I got Elder Last and then we drove back to see the assistants waiting and Elder Jones stayed until Friday afternoon. We ate lunch and walked over to a ladies house named Sonja and when she first answered the door she said to come back later then Elder Jones offered to carry in a box and he noticed some paintings in her house, she painted them, so she let all of us in to see all that she painted and we were able to teach her part of the Plan of Salvation. Then we drove to Shakopee which isn't in our area but Brother Dvorak set up an appointment, with Presidents approval, with a Judge. We met Brother Dvorak outside and he took us inside and we went through metal detectors and we went back into his chambers and we were able to talk to him. Brother Dvorak has been trying to set this up for a year now and he said he had to wait for Elders he trusted so we were those Elders. We read a letter Brother Dvorak wrote to him and taught him about part of the Plan of Salvation and that families are forever. His daughter recently died so we told him how he was going to see her again. It was a super good lesson and he was a super nice guy. Then we left and went and tried to do work there but no one was home.  There were some kids playing basketball and Elder Jones wanted to play with them and we played two games with them. We shared a video with them and got one of the kids numbers. We told them the church had a court and that they could come play. Then we went back to the apartment for dinner and went to the Burtons and taught them a lesson and then they gave us some ice cream.

Then Friday we went to breakfast with Brother Skok in Belle Plaine and it was super good food. He is such a nice guy! When we got back to the apartment Elder Kozlowski was there to pick up Elder Jones and we got pictures and stuff. Then we went to the church to do our weekly planning so it was a slow day. That evening we went to Jordan and rode our bikes in super cold weather. We saw Will for a second and set a return appointment for Thursday. We rode over to a less active that goes to a different church. He was kind of a different guy but said we could come back too. We went and taught active member lessons to Brother Mittion and then we went and saw Brother Newcomb.

On Saturday we went to the food shelf again and no one showed so after it was over we rode around Montgomery and after no one answered we went to Sister Grewes so that Elder Last could use the bathroom and we had a dinner there and the cops showed up to take Nic because he has been acting up and they took him for a little. Then we went up to Lakeville and we got a ride from Brother Newcomb and had the adult session of stake conference and it was super good. They had recent converts give a talk and it was really good they had only been members for a few months.

Sunday was good as well with stake conference and they had a lot of good talks and I am getting really excited to tell you about transfers so we didn't really do a lot on sunday.. so Elder Last is getting transferred to Hudson which is in the Oakdale zone and he is going to be a zone leader! Aaaand I am going to Red Wing, MN right on the Wisconsin border to be with Elder Huntley again! Anyways I am super stoked! It is sad that New Prague won't have any missionaries for a while though.  I leave Wednesday so the next couple days will be packing and sayings goodbyes to people and getting pictures! Anyways that's my week. Love y'all.

Elder Bullock

The Dvorak Family

Brother Skok (second from right)

Jolly Green Giant

Big church that is just cool