Dear
mom,
This
week has been nutz.
Monday
night we got a phone call from President Holm. A missionary had to go home
early for something, so Elder Stanley got emergency transferred to Ridgeway,
SC, leaving me alone in Gilbert. I have been a travelling hobo between
Lexington, Lake Murray, and Gilbert. So I have had 3 areas and 4 companions
this week. It has been way fun! I have been sleeping on their couch the whole
week (all of 'em live in the same apartment), leaving our poor trailer empty..
Still, with all this chaos, the Lord blessed the Gilbert ward. The O. Family is going to get baptized this month, and a lady the ward has been working on
for ages (W. E., I may have mentioned her before. Her daughter is 13 or
so and is a recent convert) actually came to church for once! It was awesome! R. was ordained to the office of priest yesterday, too. I
ordained him. So when I get back to the trailer I will have to grab my line of
authority and give him his. That is so cool!
To
add to the chaos, right before bed Saturday night I was straightening the
sheets. What climbs out of the couch? A brown recluse. No big. We killed it-with
Raid. And also, yesterday I was with Lexington Elders Cooper and Burchfield and
their investigator took us to church with her. Do you remember NewSpring church
from Anderson? The one that uses poker chips as tracts, and is totally the
great and spacious building- We went to the
Columbia campus. We listened to the band have a little concert, then the
preacher was broadcast from Anderson around the 8 campuses. It was full of
false doc. Haha. Some of it was accurate though. It was a good message about
hope and friendship. Just, the Holy Ghost was missing...
So
I was pondering this week and realized I left a card that has all the
priesthood blessings on it and some things that hold your tie to your shirt at
home. Grandma Seaver gave 'em to me for my birthday before I left, and I totally
forgot to pack 'em... Dang.
There
is a 11-year-old boy, C.J. D. R., in the Lexington ward (the D. R. take us
places on P-days and cut our hair and are just awesome). Can you send me my
Pokemon Black version so I can give it to him? It's a DS game.
Lake
Murray baptized a 25-year-old guy named C. from Ghana this week. We have
the same birthday. In Ghana you are given an English name, and a name for the
day of the week you were born on, which the other Ghanans refer to you by. I
was born on a Wednesday, so my name is Kwaku. That's what they would call me in
Ghana. Cool beans!
I
found a great verse to send to people who don't write me back. Alma 60:6
And now behold, we desire to know the cause of this exceedingly great neglect; yea, we desire to know the cause of your thoughtless state.
So
did I mention I'm training this transfer? I'm going to the mission home tonight
in Irmo to meet my trainee. Usually trainers go on Tuesday for a little
training, and go out for a day with a random trainee, then get their actual
companion Wednesday (I happened to have the same guy both Tues and Wed). But
for some reason they are having me drive up and meet my trainee tonight. I'm
way excited! In the mission field your trainer is "dad" and you are
his "son." So if your trainer trains 6 guys, he has 6 sons, and the
sons are all brothers. Ya dig? So, since I'm "giving birth" tonight,
I think I'm going to buy a bib and a binky to give to him. Haha. :p And then
something actually nice, from the Palmetto Gifts corner in WalMart. I'm so
excited right now!
That's
it for this week.
Love
y'all tremendously!
I Love being a missionary!
Hurrah
for Israel!
Elder Seaver
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