Hellos to alls of yous! This week has been crazy and we are at a new library and we only have an hour to e-mail so I'm gonna have to make this fast as I can. I'll do my best to deliver with detail still though.
We'll start with last P-day. We got there and the sisters wanted to play some knock-out so we obliged. For those of you familiar with my basketball skills you will find this shocking. We played the game so that if the person who got you out gets out you were back in. It's a bit confusing but in the end you need to get everyone out you're playing with to win. After about 45 mins I actually won the whole deal. I was so shocked and just started laughing and yelling "The church is true!!!" All the Elders were like "Why didn't you play like that before?". It was pretty funny.
After that I played some touch rugby with the Tongan Elders but none of them very good suprisingly. We were playing and I tried to make a hard cut and ripped my shoe in half almost. I took em' off and kept playing and it was fun but I was worried for the next week because we had a ton of service lined up. Luckly my new comps and some spares that fit.
Transfers happened Wensday and I got my new compainions, Elders McCarthy and Harris. They are quite the characters and we've had an awesome week. We basically work hard and play hard, just like it's supposed to be done. Elder Harris is from England and he's almost 21 and been out for 8 months. He's one of those guys who is not afriad to say any joke, be it good or not. Elder McCarthy is from the mothership, Utah. He's pretty much what you could expect of an Elder born and raised there except he has a southern twist in him. It's a bit odd but he's a great Elder. Elder Fry took the car with him so we've been on bike for the past week.
We visted around the area and did service and we all agreed we didn't want to work out in the appartment like me and Elder Fry had done before so we found a park just down the street with a basketball court and a running ring around it. I was pretty excited about being able to get back to running again. My pace has slacked a bit but I love running in the cool moring air and it wakes you up better than any coffee or 4 hour energy drink.
Later that day we had a lesson with Dom. He met us there with a friend actually named Devin. She's 13 and skates with Dom and seems open to the church. We really hope that she ends up taking the lessons as well. We started teaching him The Restoration but about half way through we extended a bapismal invite for the 1st of December and he accepted! We were super pumped but him and his mom (Nina) want to be baptized on the same day so that day is not set in stone yet, but we are super pumped.
We then went to one of our investigators that has an issue with smoking. They've been trying so hard to quit but really can't seem to kick these last 2 or 3 a day. Elder Harris had the soulution though, he said he would "doctor" them. We asked for her cigaretts and he soked them in milk for the night and let them dry and then gave them back. We didn't know what this would do but we got a call 20 mins later with them asking what in world we did with them. She's drastically cut back now so we think that it really did the trick :).
That night we went and helped Nina wash her windows around her house. This may sound like an easy enough task but we quickly discovered otherwise. She had these high bushes around her house which forced us to get creative and we ended up siper-monkeying all over the house trying to clean windows for 2 hours. It was a real strange thing and I wish I had pictures but you'll have to take my word for the fact that is was crazy fun.
We had dinner that night at a Thai resturant called Thai-Rama and it was pretty good. We had it with a middle-aged couple named the McDonalds. Brother McDonald served in the Philipeans and actually speaks his wife's dialect of Tagolac (There are about 300 so that's a very rare thing). They met after the mission on LDS link-up or something like that but they gave us a funny little discourse on Tagolac and were over-all awesome.
So Sunday this week was a little weird. Bishop and his 2nd counselor were out of town so we were told that meetings were canceld that moring. But it turned out the 1st called an unoffical meeting and no one got us the memo, but that was okay. We spent the time introducing the new Elders around.
Diana came and we sat in the overflow so she would be more comfortable listening to the meeting and she stayed for all but the last 10 mins before she had to go home so it was a good day. Dom and Nina also showed up to chruch so we had a good week in that sense. We tried to meet up with a man we met on the street named Vince but he didn't show up so we kinda just sat there awkwardly for a bit.
We were supposed to go to a fireside featuring Chad Lewis that night but Dom was exhausted from surfing all day the day before so we didn't get the chance to go. I was pretty disappointed but the Sizemores invited us over for ice cream and that we pretty great. Overall not a bad Sunday at all.
To finish it all off we got a call from the AP's that night. My heartrate probably skyrockted as I am still anticipating my visa. I started getting very excited when Elder Pollard asked to talk to me. As I got on the phone my hopes were a bit dashed as he told me I was getting emergency transferred again. My new comp was to be Elder Froisland (hope I'm spelling that right) and I am leaving to help him out at 4 today. So much for the 3 Nephites I guess.
That's the though that I want to end on though. It's a lot like Elder Christapherson talkin in confrence (http://www.lds.org/general-conference/2011/04/as-many-as-i-love-i-rebuke-and-chasten). We think we know what's best for ourselves sometimes but really the Lord is the master here and we need to be ready to serve him at all times and in any way imaginable. I didn't think in LA right now, I didn't think I'd have 6 comps in 7 weeks. But it's what the Lord needs and what I will do. Just like in Nephi 3:7, I will go and do.
I hope you are all doing well and I pray for you all daliy. If ye love me, fill my mail box, haha. I'll send more next week, until then, ficam doce!
-Um no exercito de Deus
Elder Teela
P.s. Shout out to my cousin Sara who is gettin' hitched!
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