March 23,2010

Hello everyone!
So this week was pretty busy. We were out teaching a ton of people and trying to find some gators.....no luck but we did get to meet with some pretty crazy people again. So Friday morning we got our transfer calls......Im getting TRANSFERRED!!! WAAHHH! Im so depressed. Im leaving the celestial kingdom and going to outer darkness! Ill be leaving today to a place called Kalkaska, its up north by traverse city. I here its really cool up there, but i kinda dont believe that anything will come close to muskegon. This has been my home. Im so sad. Ill be serving with a kinda wierd kid Elder Weaver is the name. Woody is going to be district leader and training in N Muskegon, thats pretty crazy! Pres is a wierdo, not going to lie about that. so i have been packing all morning. I leave today at 3 and will be spending the night in Lansing then going up to Kalkaska, so i might get to stop by Harrison again. OH! So i dont know if you guys remember the investigator me and Little found, his name is Page Nichols. He is getting baptized! this saturday! Oh man i am sooooo happy! I called Bro Mckay and he told me about it, oh my gosh that makes me so happy, so im going to go see him if i can. YAY! so i hope i can find a ride down to Harrison. hah. But yeah that made my whole week right there.
So this past Saturday we went to a place called Bad Axe. Its on the thumb of michigan, Elder Wood taught a lady there that was getting baptized and he got invited to come. So Scott took us over there. 7 hours in the Jeep!(Scott is the coolest guy in Michigan)So we got to see that baptism, it was way sweet. I wish you guys could see what i see. Im talking the people over here.....wow they are so crazy. I dont even know how to explain them, they are like redneck/whitetrash/mentally challenged/crazy, so ya quite the description, but they are so dang funny. Those are true Ganders right there. You know em when you see em! thats for sure! So that took up our entire saturday. But it was a lot of fun, we had two other missionaries with us that are studs. So we had a good time.
The night before we had a benefit dinner for a member in our ward who has cancer, so we helped set up a little bit, but it was way cool they had like 400 people come and eat and so there was quite the crowd. But i was goofing arond with the youth and we decided before i leave we need to have a dodgeball championship....SOO last night we all got together at scotts. I was expecting about maybe 5 or 6 people.....ya we had 14 over in scotts basement!!! It was soooo tight. The youth here are so amazing. I have become way good friends with them all and im sad to leave them, but they might come visit me! Yay. Austin(my twin) said he would come up haha. They are all so tight i love it. So we had an amazing time over there. I won the fight of course. I always have some sweet plays. Austin calls them my ESPN highlights. I had this one where nobody was throwing a ball. And their team had most of them. sooo i went to the middle of the floor and did this breakdance move and dropped the the floor and three balls flew over me and we got all the balls on our side and just massacred them. Hah! So i had a way sweet weekend. Church was amazing. In gospel principles me and wood taught a lesson about the Life of Christ and it was really spiritual and awesome. Everyone in the room bore their testimonies and it was really cool. Im so happy that i got to serve in N Muskegon i have grown a ton since being here and i am looking forward to moving on. Its just hard. I get really attatched to my areas, hah. But im going to an area that teaches 20 lessons a week very consistently, so that will be very good for me. Our lives are so awesome. We are so blessed and i wish i could see Gods hand more in the things that i do, but it is something that becomes more visible the more i serve. I was thinking a while ago about the statement that people say when they bear their testimonies. They say "I know this church is true" And its such a simple statement but so powerful at the same time. You are saying that our church is the Church of Truth...And when we think of what truth is, or Who truth is, it leads back to Christ, He said "I am the way, the TRUTH, and the life" So basically you are saying you know this is the Church of Jesus Christ. hah the circle effect. love it love it. But i do know that this church is true, that this gospel is the path that leads to eternal life, the pathway is encompassed by happiness, and truth. Jesus Christ is our savior and redeemer, He Lives and He is there watching over us our times of happiness and sadness, and he will always be there for us, I have felt that more and more on my mission, The road that we travel is hard sometimes, but its the road that will make us valiant sons and daughters in His sight, and that is what we all must remember as we walk in his footsteps. I love you guys and im thankful for your support and prayers. Until next time....ive been Weely.