Well today
has been nuts. Here’s the very, very brief version of why this email is going
to be super short. We are going to a Cards game tonight and so we are supposed
to do 3 hours of work in the morning instead of the night. Here’s what our 3
hours of work turned into. 2 hours of trying to return a hubcap. 30 minutes of
picking up broken cabinets that fell out of the back of the trailer that we
forgot to lock while driving down the street. That was almost really bad... And
then about an hour of trying to get the trailer back on the hitch of the van
because it fell off on the freeway 5 minutes after all the cabinets fell off.
Yup it’s been a long day... But I have been with elder Norton and he is
probably the best possible person for me to have been with today cause Its
impossible for us to be angry when were together so it’s been a lot of laughing
at these insane things that have happened. But hey tonight should be cool! Go
Cards.
This week has been pretty
boring but very important. I spent pretty much the whole week doing transfers
with eElder Facer and President Morgan. It’s been the hardest one by far. To
briefly explain why it’s been hard here’s some numbers. 30 missionaries came in
the last 2 transfers and again on
Tuesday. we have about 10 visa waiters that are still here as well. That’s
about 100 missionaries. All of them put together have an average mission age of
6 weeks. That’s not very much experience as a missionary. That makes things
really interesting. Also, elder facer goes home in a couple days so we had to
figure out who we were going to bring into the office. Elder Wunderli is going
to be my new companion. He’s from Alpine Utah and goes to UVU so we have that
in common at least. He has been a zone leader for 1 transfer and has been on
his mission for like 16 months or so. I have loved being with him on exchanges
so I’m really excited for him to come in.
The best part of this week by
far was Sunday.
We got to go to the O’Fallon stake conference. We walked in and there were
missionaries everywhere which was great. It was a ton of fun to get to see them
all and so many of their investigators. While I was walking around talking to
missionaries Darwin ran up and started talking to me. Darwin is Brenda Wilson’s
grandson from Fairview heights. I love that kid and was so happy to see him.
The whole stake conference was about temple work and missionary work. President
and Sister Morgan gave great talks about missionary work. But by far my
favorite part was getting to hear the talk by Sister Vicki Kremer. She gave a
10 minute talk about her conversion and her experience going through the temple
a couple weeks ago. That was definitely one of those moments as a missionary
where you just feel like everything you have ever gone through on your mission
was worth it just for that 10 minutes. I was so thankful that I got to sit in
on that experience.
This coming week we have
transfers on Wednesday,
new missionaries on
Tuesday, and departing missionaries on Thursday, just like normal. The temple is
closed on Wednesday
though so we are going to a cardinal’s game on Wednesday instead. Hopefully everything
goes smoothly this week. I love all of you and thank you for your prayers. Talk
to you all again soon!
-Elder Banks
Elder Banks sitting in one BIG chair!
Below is the office staff.
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