It's Been A While

Well hello everyone! It has been a minute since you have all heard from me so lemme give you an update on what has gone on the past couple months or so. I guess the biggest change so far is that transfers just happened last week and finally after 7.5 months of being in Noblesville I was transferred! I have been transferred to a place called Plainfied. It is not far from where my last area, and is just on the west side of Indy. It actually borders my very first area which is the Avon 2 area. That was the area where I taught a crazy amount of people everyday haha. This new area that I am in is not as fortunate as that even though its so close to it.

 As well as getting transferred I obviously got a new comp. His name is Elder Hardman and we actually came out together! There is kinda of a funny story behind why President put us together. So first of all me and Elder Hardman have already been really good friends with each other even before we became comps and we have served around each other for about the past year. Elder Hardman is a great guy and a great missionary but sometimes he just does what he wants haha, and President knows that lol. I forgot to mention we were in the same district when I was serving in Noblesville. So last transfer at interviews Elder Hardman told me he was going to ask President if he could pit us together because he was going to tell pres that we would work very well together and that we already are good friends so we would be able to have fun while we work hard. So of course my thought to this was "haha ok good luck with that, pres will never go for that". Well I was obviously wrong haha. On the Saturday morning before transfers when we were going to get out news of where we would be going were got a call from President Page to let us know the news. Sure enough he told me that I would be serving with Elder Hardman down to Plainfield. I was  in shock! I didn't think that was actually going to happen haha. Prez told me that he has a good feeling about it and that he trusts me to be a good influence on him and that we will work great together. He also told me that I was going to be the District Leader down there. It is pretty funny that it actually happened but its been awesome!

We do work really well together and this last week we had over 20 lessons which is more than I’ve had in quite a long time. It is pretty cool to see that the Lord knows just where we need to be at a certain time and puts us with people we are meant to serve with! It's been pretty dang sweet! If you've been on a mission you will understand the fact that when you get transferred with someone new that you don't know it can be awkward for the first couple days trying to get to know them and be comfortable around them. Well in this case I didn't have to do that at all so that was nice haha. 

This area isn't necessarily "bumping" with people to teach but the ward is very missionary minded. I think out of all the wards or branches that I have served in this one is by far the most missionary minded. We have a lot of member lessons which had been really good because we have been able to get to know the ward pretty well in a short amount of time. My new district consists of three sets of sisters and another set of elders. Soooooo yeah its a lot of sisters lol. Since I have to call them every Sunday night I'm probably on the phone with each set of sisters for at least 30 mins and then when I call the elders were usually talking for like 10 mins hahaha. But it's all good, I enjoy doing it.

Overall life has been going pretty well. It’s starting to warm up which is so nice. It's also been sunny the past couple days which has been so great. Hopefully winter is completely gone by now cause I'm over it. But I’m grateful for this opportunity serve the Lord and the people here in my new area.  

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ELDER HILBURN

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