Que tal Familia,
IWhat a life. Transfers were crazy this past week. So many
changes in the mission and especially in the zone. My new companion is Elder
Bellavance. He is from a little town outside of Las Vegas, Nevada. He is a
super good missionary. Very diligent. He hates meetings and loves to just get
out on the streets and work. He is a jokester as well. We have been laughing
and having fun as well. He came out last November so he is about 4 or so months
younger than me. It is an answer to all the prayers that I am with him.
We are going to have a good few transfers together.
Its been a big change up for me. I felt a lot of pressure
having to help out a new zone leader, running the area, and helping the zone.
It was a little overwhelming right off the bat but it has been settling in just
fine. I felt a lot more weight right in the beginning because I had to be the
one making some big decisions. It was just a little exhausting mentally and a
very tiring week, but this week the dust should begin to settle.
So on Tuesday, transfer conference day, Elder
Drewes spent all morning packing and I spent all morning prepping the area and
cleaning the apartment. We are getting a whole new area combined with ours so
the size of our area is getting doubled. We cover everything from the 139
(Holland tunnel) down to Danforth Ave in Jersey City, If you want to
check it out. So pretty small area still so we are excited. We were
planning last night and we have so many members in our area. We think we have
the most active members in our area than any other companionship in the
mission. We have about 26. Most companionships cover like 5-8. So we are super
blessed with some awesome members. We are going to work a lot with them because
we don't have a ton of Hispanics walking on the streets so contacting is a
little tough. We are going to work though the members to teach anyone they know
or their friends or just area where we can go work. But after we packed on
Tuesday we went out to subway and then straight to transfer conference in
Morristown with all the missionaries either getting transferred to getting a
new companion. Then the rest of the night we were running stuff around Jersey
City and Bayonne to the companionships. We barely got everyone's stuff home to
there apartments.
Thursday was a nice long working day. We got out working at
12:00 after studies and lunch. Every Thursday in this mission is a walking day.
So we don't use our cars unless its needed. This past Thursday we were walking
from 12:00 to 5:00 and we didn't get into any of the houses we tried. Everyone
that we had planned either wasn't there or was busy. So it was a lot of walking
and not too much teaching. I think God was maybe just trying to teach us. Ha
there is always teaching going on somewhere. But finally we got into a lesson
with a young 15 year old member who is one of the only members in his family
and always makes it to church every week. He is a stud. He loves playing soccer
and always loves going to church and having us over. We had to be in our
apartments by 6:00 on the 30th and Halloween because it gets pretty dangerous
after those hours. I guess its initiation time for all the gangs and yeah just
not a super good place to be for missionaries. So we were inside after 6:00
safe and a sound. We did our weekly planning and talked the rest of the night.
My companion is a funny guy and came from a crazy place.
The first person we tried this week, Elder Bellavance and I,
was Sa---. It was sweet because the front two doors of the building were open
(never happens anywhere in JC) so we got in and then knocked on his door
and he let us in. His cousins and aunt were there and his mom so we just
started teaching them all. It was a good restoration lesson and they a had a
lot of good questions. At one point the two cousins were having some trouble
accepting the Book of Mormon and were making all these excuses but then the
aunt just ran in from the kitchen, who isn't even a member, and started
supporting the Book of Mormon and us and telling the cousins (her daughters)
that they weren't listening to us. Ha it was so good. It was like a member in
the lesson backing us up but she wasn't a member.
Things are going good. We have a busy week ahead
of us with 2 big meetings and interviews with President and Sister
Taggart. So it will be lots of planning and driving and studying. I
am doing great though. I love my study times every day. It is amazing how much
deeper and deeper I can get into the scriptures and pull things out I have
never even noticed before. It takes a lot of visualizing things in my head and
asking questions and seeking answers. Its pretty neat actually
I love you all so much. Thank you for the letters and
packages and everything you are doing for me! I can feel your love all the way
over here in Jersey. I love you family. Keep it up.
love,
Elder Sumsion
Shoutout
Packer Family (Elder Packer's family)- Thank you
for the package with the cookies and candy. It was the perfect amount of
candy to enjoy and not eat too much. Thank you for the letter as well.
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