Emergency Transferred

Hey everyone! So I got my new tablet and it doesn't let me do videos as well so I have to write out an email again. So sorry! 

This week was a little crazy though! On Tuesday President Forbes called and told me that I am going to be Emergency Transferred down to Bloomington.  There were a lot of people that moved around as well and an area got shut down. So on Wednesday we had Zone Conference and after that was over the Assistants came and picked me up and I said my goodbye to Elder Beutler.

So my new companions are Elder Oldroyd, who was my Zone Leader, and Elder Anderson and they are awesome. We drove down with the Hmong Elders and helped them move their stuff and then went down to Bloomington.

Thursday we went on exchanges and I was with Elder Oldroyd and Elder Harper, my old companion. We worked in Bloomington for the day and then Elder Harper went back to Brooklyn Park. While Elder Oldroyd went and picked him up and dropped off Elder Anderson I helped at the mission office and just went and wrote down what kind of bikes were out in the shed and then moved something into the Forbes basement.

I have been able to drive the truck as well and I drove up through Minneapolis to Maple Grove and I got to drive up from Prior Lake to Bloomington all by myself in a different car and it was weird to not have a companion with me.

We have a few investigators but the one I have really met is Buddy. He is 17 and his dad is rocket man.  You will have to look him up but he invents stuff and is like a stunt man. Anyways he took us on a drive through Minneapolis and took us to this huge bridge. He also came to church and the Mission Presidents fireside.

Mission Presidents fireside was legit! We had the Minnesota Mormon Chorale come, it's like MoTab but just Minnesota.. kind of. We had like 320 people that came. It was really good and we had Elder Stacey, who is an area 70. He spoke after and it was awesome and just talked about the spirit of music.

Today we had Zone p day and we went to a park and just played a bunch of sports and grilled burgers! It was really good. Anyways that's my week! I will talk to y'all Later!

Elder Bullock

 Me handing out a flier for Mp fireside

 Bloomington missionaries, me, Elder Oldroyd, Anderson, Sister Frank, Larsen and Bunting

Cool Bridge

Me and Elders Lowell and Nelson

Me and Elders Cardwell and Strong

YouTube link to Elder Bullock's Weekly video below pictures

https://youtu.be/SeT0f2Qxt7I

Week 35

Click link below for Elder Bullock's weekly email video

https://youtu.be/QcchtqXq6Pw

8 month mark

Still shot from the video

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https://youtu.be/RsVe1d9HpqQ

HIGH SCHOOL REUNION

This past week Elder Bullock did a video for his weekly letter. Ok so I am technologically challenged and have had issues getting videos to work on Blogger, thus the late upload of this video link that I had to upload to YouTube.  This is from Monday, March 27th, 2017.--Sharlyn

Click on the link below to see Elder Bullock's weekly letter video.

https://youtu.be/eNPCgXy2w40

Elder Bullock, Elder Harper, Elder Beutler

Elder Harper, Elder Bullock

New comps- Southeast Idaho represented

No information was given on who the following people are and from what area.

Transfers

So I will just start off about transfers. I'm going to be going over
to Buffalo, Minnesota with Elder Brody Beutler. So that's pretty
exciting we will get to talk about home and stuff like that and tell
everybody that we went to high school together. Elder Harper is
staying and training and Elder Huntley is going up to Duluth to be a
zone leader. I already knew that he was going to be a zone leader
because it's Elder Huntley and he's good at everything.

Well the most exciting thing this week besides transfers was probably
that we went to a mosque with one of the Shingle Creek sisters'
investigators. We rode down with him on Friday and he gave us some
Qurans. It was really interesting and kind of weird and the pastor
dude just talked about the history of Muslims and how they got picked on
and stuff. But I can say I've been to mosque now. We also rode down to
the mission presidents fireside and the whole way down we listened to a
CD of somebody reading the Quran and I don't know if you've ever heard
how they do it but it's in a different language and they almost sing
it.

On Wednesday we had district meeting and I gave my first training. I
am surprised it took so long for me to do one. Anyways, I did it on how
we can better find people to teach. It was only like a 10 minute
training so not too bad, haha, then we did this thing called the hot
seat and everyone gets to sit in a chair and then everyone else give
them a compliment. It was the Sisters idea, haha.

So this week we got a new Senior couple, Elder and Sister Jensen in
the ward and we went and helped them move into their apartment. The
Ap's came and picked us and the other Elders up and we got them moved
in. They work mainly with the African people and work in the Elm
Creek, Shingle Creek and Maple Grove ward. They are pretty cool and
they are from Boise, Idaho! Well just outside Boise but I forgot
where. Then after that we went to a Mission Prep fireside thingy and
Elder Jorgensen and Sister Heiner and 2 returned missionaries all
talked about their missions. One of the returned missionaries had been
home for just a week and he came home from Mexico and he is super cool. We
talked with him a little bit and he said he felt more comfortable
talking to us missionaries than anyone else, haha it was kind of funny!

We had a ward game night on St patties day and had green drinks and a
bunch of popcorn. We just played games and it was pretty great. We
even had a tug of war rope and Elder Harper totally beat the all of
the primary kids by himself... it was really fun though. We got some,
not even all, of the left over popcorn and we haven't even made a dent.
It is literally one of those black garbage bags full of just popcorn.

Well thats about all I have for this week, not too much happened. I
will talk to y'all later!


Elder Bullock

Got your green on? St Patricks Day 2017

Thats no pot o' gold, its popcorn

The Pollmann family

The Ukwatha family

The Mikyla family

Week 32

Hey guys! So I am sorry but this one might be a little shorter. Right
now we are at a bowling alley with the Elders, Sisters and the
Minneapolis Spanish speaking Sisters. It was pretty fun!

So there wasn't any huge miracles this week but we went on exchanges
with the Zone Leaders and I went with Elder Dover and stayed in Elm
Creek. We met this lady named Nesha and gave her a mormon.org card and
she asked us what a mormon was and we were able to teach her a little
bit and then we went back the next day and gave her a Book of Mormon
and she wants to know more about it and she seems really interested.
So hopefully we can get back there soon.

We saw Dawhon and Stevion as well and Adreanne was sick so she was
upstairs. Stevion gave us both a bunch of pokemon cards so I got a
little deck now haha. We were able to read some of the Book of Mormon
and invite them to read it every day and if they do it for two weeks
then we will go make them breakfast. They didn't come to church again..
well no one came to church but eventually they will. They always say
next week. Then next week they say next week.

We had Zone Conference this week and it was a little different than
usual. They want to try and get more interaction in them so there was
more roleplays and things like that. Elder Harper gave a training on
how to use the gospel library app, haha, it was pretty funny. He filled
a suitcase with a bunch of things that are in gospel library and told
someone to come pick it up and use it all day. It was clever. I got to
see Brody Beutler, for those who don't know we went to high school
together. Sadly we didn't get a picture but I am sure I will get to
see him again.

Saturday morning we woke up at 5:15 to go over to the Crystal building
and we played volleyball with some other missionaries! It was pretty
good and we also played 3 step which is where you throw a ball at
people but you can't take more than 3 steps. I was pretty tired that
day though.

So last p day it was super warm and we actually had two tornadoes that
were semi close to us.. well not like super close but in the western half
of Minnesota. So that's cool. Now this week there is snow on the
ground... Minnesota is worse than home with the change in weather.

The AP's have come over for lunch twice now I think. They just show up
and eat then leave... Its a good thing I like them, haha.

There was a devotional thing this past Sunday about women and how Christ
made things better for women. It was actually really good.

Anyways that's all I got so I will talk to y'all later!

Elder Bullock

Bowlin'

Bipolar weather

Elder Jorgensen and Elder Bullock

Elder Bullock and Elder Dover