NEW AREA, NEW COMP, NEW YEAR!

What is up all you wonderful people!? Lots of things have changed out here in Indy! It was all a shake up! Like I said in last week’s email I got moved to a new area and got a new comp. The area is much different than my last area. Like I have talked about it in my previous emails, we taught a lot back then. WELL... that has changed going into this area. The area I cover is pretty big geographically and we cover two towns. Alexandria and Elwood. We live in the town of Alexandria so we try to spend most of our time there so we don’t have to go all the way to Elwood. I am serving in a Branch also so it is really not big at all. Yesterday we had about 40 people total at church so like I said, not big, SMALL. It has definitely been quite an adjustment going from a city to a small podunk town, but there obviously is a reason why I need to be here. Whether it be a new person we find or a less active member that needs me here to influence them and help them in any way I can

I also (like it States in the title) got a new companion. His name is Elder Utsch and he’s from Tucson, Arizona. He’s a pretty chill guy and I like him a lot. 

This past week has been mostly filled with a lot of finding time. So we are either knocking doors or just walking around hunting for people to talk to in this tiny town. It's kinda cool though cause then we have a lot of time to get to know each other so it’s all good. 

We had an interesting experience this last week while knocking doors. As we were knocking this one door, a man pulls up in the driveway and gets out of his car to come talk to us because it was his house that we were knocking on. Of course the first thing he said (which we hear all the time) was "watchu sellin young boyaaahss" , just like that too, no kidding, lol. Of course we respond by saying, "we ain't sellin anything sir" We then just went on to have an interesting conversation about how our church was incorrect and we were a cult basically. It turned into a low key bible bash and I was getting heated. He was saying some ridiculous things and it was getting me mad. So basically it just ended with us agreeing to disagree. Funny thing was midway through the conversation he says that maybe he has us mixed up with Jehovah Witnesses.  As we were walking away I might have mumbled something to the affect "you'll be sorry in the next life for not listening to us!" He just walked into his house and didn’t say anything. Probably shouldn't have said that but I will have to work on controlling myself next time. It’s okay though I've already repented so I think I am good. Haha. 

Anyway y'all, I know this is a shorter email but that's about all exciting that has happened but love you all!

Remember everybody, stay stoked and SEND IT FOR THE LORD

ELDER HILBURN