Hey Everybody!
Hope your guy's week has been great! Especially since I know a lot of
kids have been going back to school. If anything, I bet it was busy.
Like my week.
Since transfers happened and we got some changes in our district, it's
been very busy for us. Got a new Zone Leader, Elder Shapiro got a new
companion, and one of the sisters is now trainer (the other left.), so
we have been doing a lot of introducing them to the area and helping
them settle in. Cool thing is, Elder Moseley and I are now driving the
car!!! Before that, we were on bike but, since Elder Benedict (Elder
Shapiro's new companion.) doesn't have his license and Elder Shapiro
doesn't have his paperwork in (and considering the fact that he only
had his license for less then six months.), now we have the car!
Problem with that is that we now are switching areas and that's
confusing.
*Editor's Note (from a separate private letter):
**Sister Willis is my dad's cousin's husbands niece. We found out they were going to be in the same mission just a little before this AND that they had the same last name :)
So, interesting fact, Sister Willis is in my district! Her trainer is
Sister Jones and she's the Sister I mentioned in my General Email.
Other interesting fact, when you sent that email (which was like two
weeks before transfers.) I had told everyone in the district about
this and all the Elders claimed that Sister Jones was going to train
Sister Willis in the following transfer. Yeah, Gift of Prophecy in
action right there.
Picked up a new investigator last Sunday and had another on with her
on Tuesday, which both went well. That was cool!
*Editor's Note (from a separate private letter):
That's what I love most about my mission right now: meeting people. I meet al
kinds of people in Oroville, from drug addicts to merchants, young to
old. As much as it is a struggle for someone who is so insecure as me,
I love talking to people because I have the chance show them that I
love them and God loves them
On Thursday, Elder Moseley and I were doing service for a woman in our
ward. Cutting down her large bushes. Her mother gave us a hack saw
this time to help us cut the bushes down faster. Well, I handed it
over to Elder Moseley for a while and he went to town on the bushes as
I was using the clippers. Then, Elder Moseley went to far and cut his
finger. We shrugged because it kinda looked liked he graced it and we
asked if we could use her hose to clean it. As he was washing it, I
looked closer at it, looked at him, and said, "Elder, that's a pretty
deep cut." We left and, despite his protests, had the Zone Leaders
look at it then we began calling around the Oroville wards (1st and
3rd) for any nurses. We found one, but wasn't able to get to her until
nine o'clock at night! When we finally found the time to get over
there, the nurse said it could have used some stitches but it was too
late and used some kind of stitching tape. He's doing great though and
it wasn't anything serious.
Other than that, nothing else really happened this week. I've been
receiving everyone's letters and emails and thank you so much! I love
you all and I hope you have a good week!
Love,
Elder Paul Willis
PS Everyone keeps calling me by "Elder Willis" or "Willis" that
sometimes I forget that my first name is Paul. Ha ha.
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