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We had zone conference this week. 

We met with Beverly and her daughter Abbie several times in preparation for her baptism on the 11th.

Andrew Adkins had his life turn around and he feels good about the future.

We knocked a lot of doors.

We ate food.

We slept.

Back into the storm

This week time was a storm rather then the normal placid flow and ebb of the days.

On Tuesday I got to go to Canandaigua with Elder McCune who is training as well so we had to be together until Wednesday. Elder McCune and I killed each other with jokes for a straight 24 hours. We didn't really get to sleep much because we were to busy talking about the doctrine of Christ and the changes that have happened in the mission. Apparently Hawaii is exploding which I didn't know. 

Wednesday we picked up our companions. There is a lot of missionaries coming in but I believe there is still less than 80 missionaries. My companion is Elder Hill from Pennsylvania. He never went to the MTC so he just drove straight up here. He is the middle of 5 kids about 150 pounds and 5'9" with blonde/brown hair. People keep asking g us if we are twins.

Elder Smith from my time in Palmyra is training and being transferred to buffalo so he is in the same boat as me except he has to learn public transport hahaha. I drove them to buffalo from Rochester and so we got to catch up on the way. 

The Niagara falls ward is popping. The two missionaries that were here both went home and they had two baptisms last transfer. One of them was last sunday.. so we are trying to keep up with all the names and places and people. We have the daughter of the recent convert on date for August and several other people that are getting there already. The members have already fed us more then I have been fed anywhere else.

7909 4th ave, Niagara falls, NY 14304

Gotta catch em all

We are no longer going to pageant. Chuck is going this week. I'm being transferred to Niagara falls south and I'm training again.

Well I'm leaving Warsaw and heading back to Niagara falls south, which is kind of in Tonawanda I believe but I'm not sure. I'm training again so we are both going to be new to the area but there are two sets of missionaries in the ward I believe. 

Warsaw was great while it lasted. Elder Harvey my companion I had in buffalo is coming down to Warsaw to be with Elder Clinger.

I hope everyone has a good week. 

I have to finish forge work on my blade.

Emoji face

President Evans came by and spoke with Chuck on the 3rd. Warsaw had a parade going on so it was really crowded and we had to walk across town because we couldn't drive through. Chuck basically talked the whole time other then a couple questions that President asked him. So I had to wrap it up or else we would have been there all night. I have abridged the book of Mormon down to about 20 chapters for Chuck in preparation for the Hill Cumorah pageant.

Some members from Rhode island drove by us this week and offered us water and Elder Clinger declined. The next day tons of people offered us water and Elder Clinger accepted all of it because he felt bad he didn't take the members water. He ended up with a lot of bottles.

Ordinary people ordinary places

This week President came by for interviews. I told him about Chuck and so now he is coming down this week to meet with him. I'm stoked for that. I also went on exchanges with Elder Gold up in Batavia and the Elder that he is training went down to Warsaw with Elder Clinger. 

Elder Gold and I had a great time together. One of their investigators we met with had gotten a hold of a very dark anti booklet about Mormons and so he had lots of questions. We answered them and pointed him to the book of Mormon.

We didn't find anyone new or exciting this week so that's about it. It's been decently warm up here and so everyone has been freaking out like it's boiling them alive...

Happy independence day!

 I'm finishing my short sword/dagger