After talking with the fam last Pday, we got our suits on and did some contacts until we had our mission wide video conference with President and Sister Maurer. Because they are unable to go around the mission for “in person” zone conferences, they have planned out three or four virtual conferences spread throughout the entire transfer. It has its ups and downs, but the conference went well. It was only an hour long and they basically talked about all of the missionaries that will be returning to their missions and they gave them the chance to give their parting farewells. They also gave everybody who wanted to share what they learned from general conference the chance to do so with the entire mission. Let’s just say the majority of the people who had comments were sisters (as usual) haha. It was pretty neat. They also made sure to let everybody know that if you are getting the vaccine, or you know you won’t get it, to let the mission nurse know so that she can get a head count.
Tuesday morning, we went over to bishop's house for a "fun" service project. He had us carry a bunch of wood down to the end of his 300ft dock. By a bunch of wood, I'm talking about 40 sheets of treated oak and 100 2x6x20ft treated planks. It’s all fine though, in return from destroying our bodies, we got some lunch. Fair trade.
The next day, we had in person interviews with the Maurers in the nearby town of Kinston. Things went well and I'll tell y’all the deets in our next call. I also have been grinding out my Japanese with Elder Farley Sensei! I now have all of the kana in the hiragana alphabet memorized and now I’m going to start working on reading and hopefully understanding kanji. It's a beast and I hope to get a good foundation so I can further my language studies for when I'm home and don't have a companion that speaks it!
To end the week off right, I was able to watch (over zoom) Sophia's baptism!!! It truly was quite an experience to remember. Ever since the first day I spoke with her back in Fuquay, I knew that she was going to be baptized. The elders in Apex did an amazing job getting her some fellowshippers and friends in the ward as we all waited for her mom to let her enter into Christ's fold after she turned 15! It was an amazing service and Sophia is sooo happy! I was texting her and she is just so glad to have been baptized and she feels even “amazinger” now that she has the gift of the Holy Ghost. Who knows, if the temples start to open up here, maybe I can go do baptisms with her (and maybe even Sean)!
I have a lot to look forward to in this up and coming week and I hope the best for y’all. Love you!
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