In an amazing turn of events, I remained in the Rappahannock Young Single Adult branch! I was transferred from Stafford YSA to Rappahannock YSA, which is the Fredericksburg side of the Branch. I am now companions with Elder Larson (different from my trainer) and we are serving together as Zone Leaders! That definitely threw a few of the members for a loop when I showed up on Sunday.
The funniest part about this is that I actually blitzed University of Mary Washington (UMW) (where we currently do most of our finding) with Elder Larson on Tuesday, and then the next day, we are companions and back at UMW!
We had a coordination meeting with the Branch Mission Leader to talk about the Branch Mission Plan, and then had a great lesson with Todd and Kori! They prayed about the Book of Mormon with us at the end (for the first time)!
There was loads of Traffic on Rte 1 heading to UMW, apparently a couple tractor trailers jackknifed on I95 and caused a pretty big accident, so traffic was diverted and thus clogging up all the other main roads. Stafford could definitely be better-planned.
Wednesday was a blast! We took a sweet picture that morning, and Brother Bowler took us down to transfer meeting! For those of you who don't know who that is, he is pretty much a mission legend. A super cool retired member in Fredericksburg who takes missionaries out to eat a lot and takes them all over the mission, wherever they need to go. Super converted, super missionary minded, and super sweet! And he bought us Panda Express before transfer meeting! I was so happy! We had an amazing lesson with Sara, who decided she wanted to be baptized on Friday! That's a convert for sure!
Thursday was great as well. We planned out our exchanges for the transfer, and did companion studies with every set of elders in the zone, and made some sweet meaningful contacts on UMW. We also cleaned out the old apartment (oh yeah, we also moved) and popped into the last few minutes of Institute.
Friday was baptism day! Sara's boyfriend and parents showed up as well (all nonmembers), and it was sweet! We actually spent most of the day at Mission Leader Conference, which was super cool as well. We took Elder Raty and his companion back with us, and he baptized her!
Downtown was popping Saturday night, so we went street contacting, only to realize it was a beerfest. That was no bueno...We also did District Leader Training that morning.
Sunday was cool too. We made a bunch of visits after church, and got an impromptu member dinner out of it. We also called a few people and set a couple appointments! I cut my hair this morning, and I'm not sure what to think of it. At least it was free! We also washed the car today in preparation for Zone Conference, and it was beautiful outside!
See ya next week!
Elder Brown
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| Sara's baptism! |
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| Panda Express |
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| Another Preying Mantis |
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| An interesting sign I found Downtown (never thought those would go together...) |
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