TKM AHHH TRANSFER WEEK

Hey Family and friends!
How has your week been going? I hope that is has all gone well.
This has been a really cool and just all around crazy week. Elder Hoyt and I were trying to learn what all the things that we had to do for transfers and just running back and forth. To kinda start off the week, on Tuesday morning, Elder H and I went to the office and started to get all the finial office things ready for the new missionaries. We made some packets of information for them to fill out, and then drove a couple of the mission vehicles over to the car wash to get them all cleaned up. The alarm on the phone went off and we sprung into action and drove to the Air Port to pick up the new missionaries! (I didn't think I would be back to the air port before two years, so that was a weird feeling) So We got to the Air port about a half hour early and walked around a little bit looking for the gate that the missionaries would be coming out of and it brought back a ton of memories. We were suppose to be meeting President and Sister "I" there but they were no where in site and we could see some missionaries coming down the hall. There was just one problem... we were suppose to be picking up 5 new missionaries and we could only see 2...

After we greeted them and gave them hugs, we asked "So where are the lost tribes of your group?" They told us that the rest of them got left at the last airport because they tried to call their families again haha. We found all of their luggage and loaded them into a van and had the other assistance take them back to the mission home. President and Sister "I" waited with us at the airport for a little while and walked around the gift shops and took some goofey pictures. We ended up getting a call from the other missionaries that had been left behind. They borrowed someones phone to let us know that their flight was going to be delayed for a couple more hours. We drove back to the mission home and let the missionaries that we had take a little nap for a couple hours while we tried to decided what to do. We helped Sister "I" cook and prepare dinner, and afterwords we chilled on the back porch. It was the perfect temperature outside as we looked at the crisp yellow, orange, and red leaves dancing in the wind.

Around 7pm we received another text updating us that their flight was about to come in. We headed back to the Airport and got the other missionaries. They all looked completely wiped out so we took them back to the mission home for some dinner. We had an orientation meeting with them and a night devotional. The spirit that was felt was so strong and I'm really excited to see these new missionaries in action. They all went to bed, but unfortunately the night wasn't over for us yet. We headed back to the office to finish getting things ready for transfers and then went to the church to set everything up. We didn't leave the church till about 1 or 2 in the morning I think.

Wednesday morning we went to the mission home to have some breakfast at 7:00 and then walked over to the church with all of the new missionaries. Their eyes were huge as they looked around to see where they'd be for the next 2 years.

Around 9:00 we split up for a couple of different trainings. President "I" and I went into a room to train the new trainers and then Elder Hoyt and Sister "I" went into another room with the office staff to go over car usage and other cool stuff like that.

After that I conducted my first transfer meeting and I was a little nervous at first but ended up having a lot of fun with it.

Elder R and Elder R (the assistants that were training us) forgot to mention to us what we needed to do AFTER transfers happened. All of these people and the office staff came up to Elder H and I asking all sorts of questions that we had no idea how to answer. We ran over to Elder R and asked "what the heck do we say to them?!" and he smiled and said "that's up to you... you'll figure it out"........CRAP!

For the rest of the night Elder H and I drove around the mission dropping off bikes, beds, and missionaries that got left behind. We didn't get back to our apartment until 7:00pm and just passed out asleep, dead tired and in zombie mode.

And that's kinda how the rest of our week was until Saturday night.

As Elder H and I were planning for the next day, We both really still wanted to reach the "standard of excellence" that our mission had set. one of which was 7 new investigators a week. (which is sometime pretty hard to get.) The only problem... because we had been so busy the days before, we had only found one investigator so far this week and tomorrow was our last day.

We both got the impression to fast and pray. We knelt down together and decided that we wanted to fast for a family that we could find. A family that was prepared to receive the restored gospel. A family that would come to general conference and would be able to be baptized in the month of October. We wanted to fast to know what price we would have to pay to receive this blessing. After we prayed and started the fast, we both got the impression that we needed to get the standard of excellence still.

So Sunday afternoon we headed out and went tracting. We ended the night by finding 7 New Investigators!!!! Fasting is such an amazing blessing!!! =D

One of the girls that we met was named "BK". We saw her sitting outside on her porch and went up to her and started having a conversation. She mentioned to us that she was thinking about switching churches. We asked her if we could share a message about Jesus Christ with her. "So what is the difference between your church and others?" She asked.

Well like other Christians, We know that Jesus Christ is the son of God. That he is our Savior and Redeemer. We know that it is only through his grace and his Mercy that we can be saved. We believe that God revealed his gospel throughout time to his servant, the prophets. We believe that he is the same yesterday, today and forever and one of the things that separates us from any other church is that we believe that he has called a prophet and 12 apostles today."

That is so cool!!-she said haha. She then started to ask question after question wanting to know more.

I know that the Lord prepares his children all around us to receive his good news. We can have the blessing of being his hands in helping his work move forward. I know that my Lord Lives. I know that his Church is on the earth today and that he speaks through modern living prophets and apostles today. The Bible and The Book Of Mormon Are the mind, will, and Voice of the Lord to us. They can show us what it is that we must do to gain peace in this live and eternal salvation in the life to come. I love this gospel.

And I love all of you. cant wait to hear from you all.

Love Elder Pearson