3-25-24

EMERGENCY TRANSFERS!?? GOOD BYE LAMBARÉ!?!


Well... as they say in life... expect the unexpected. This literally just happened a couple hours ago. We did our usual pday activity.. all you can eat pizza. Then after eating basically a whole pizza, I get a random call from our APs. I'm freaking out because it's 2 PM on a Monday. All of a sudden MY APs are telling me that I am going to be an office Elder. Since day one of the mission I knew I was going to be an office Elder. However, I am going to be a leader of this whole new program that the church is putting in our mission. I have to be packed and ready to go by Wednesday morning and will be having training all day. I literally have no idea what I'm doing and it's going to be so freakin lit. This also means that this will be my very last area in the mission before I come home. This mission has completely taken a turn.


However, this was a very good week. Yesterday we had a crazy lesson with a lady. I have never ever seen anyone with so much faith. She explained to us her story and all that she has been through. In the scriptures you will read a lot that prophets wanted to write something, but God told them not too. That's how I felt. It was so crazy that it brought tears to my eyes. Just the faith in Jesus she has. A truly great experience for me.


Had exchanges with Elder Woodhouse. We both came together on the mission and we worked a ton. Found 4 new people and killed the day. Luckily the weather and our time changed here. So we are low 90s and the sun starts setting at like 5:45 PM now. It's like the biggest blessing. However, I'm legit going to be in the office the whole day. So like.... wrong time to get called.


New adventures, you gotta love it. 

Love you all

From your favorite,

Elder Ressel






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