Elder Ben Hilburn: Longest I will ever stay in one area!

What is up everyone? Things out here have been pretty chill. As the title implies I will indeed be staying in Noblesville for yet another transfer. That will make this my 5th transfer here or a total of 7.5 months. Flippin long man. I'm not complaining, let me make that clear. This area is pretty dang lit and we actually have found a good amount of success as of lately. I am also staying with the same companion. I have already been with this kid for 12 weeks now but here I am bouta pull off another 6. I love the kid though, so it's good. I will admit, I would never have gotten a long with a kid like this before the mish, my mind was pretty close minded and I had my tight knit group of friends and didn't really sway from that. If there is one thing that a mission has taught me it is to just love people for who they are. I can't change this kid, the best I can do is love him for who he is even though he is sooooooo different. It's definitely been good for me so I'm glad I get to spend another transfer with him. But man, Heavenly Father really must be trying to teach me to not be so anal about things cause I have been stuck with so many comps that's are not clean people... He is another one of those... It makes me wonder if some of these kids were raised in a barn, you would think the simplist things everyone knows how to do but oh no they don't. I have had to teach my current comp and past ones how to just simply be clean and tidy. It is a work in progress. A lot of the time I just get so fed up with it and end up deep cleaning the entire apartment by myself. Partly because my standard of cleanliness is sooo much higher than him. Once again, don't get it but I guess I will just learn pacience in this matter.

The last couple weeks have not been super cold like everyone says it was supposed to be. It is pretty much just like what lady winter was like at home, which was not super cold. Yeah there had been a couple days in the negatives but nothing of what the hoosiers claim this winter is suppose to be. It's also possible that just because I have lived here for so dang long I have gotten use to it and my cold tolerance has just gone up, honestly couldn't tell yah.

We have another baptism coming up in February! It is a similar situation to my last baptism. She has been investigating the church for a good while now and is just waiting to turn 18 so she can get dunked. So we will be meeting with her more now and going over the basics and just make sure she is ready. Pretty sweet!

Not much else has really happened, life as a missionary right now is pretty unique! Still love it and wouldn't want to be anywhere else! Love the gosepel and sharing it daily!!

SEND IT FOR THE LORD

ELDER HILBURN