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Monday, August 16, 2010

Early Transfer

Wow! ok so i have to type very fast because i have alot to say so sorry for the miss spelling. So as you know i just came to this area this transfer (4 weeks ago). So i was thinking i had some time to learn the area and get to know the investigators and stuff. Well i was wrong. So the Assistant to the president (elder bird) aka Ryan bird. I met his mom and girl friend at elder lindes homecoming. Anyways he is going home tomorrow (2 weeks early) for school. So they had to replace him in the office. So the new assistant is Elder Hickey (my companion from bo) he is the one in all the videos. So then my companion elder chikwendu is replacing him in bo. So on thursday we got a call from the mission president and the mission president talked to my companion for a while and then my companion handed me the phone and he had kind of this weird look on his face and i was like oh crap what so then i talked to president and president said: Elder Lancaster. Im going to be taking your companion away from you. And you are becoming senior companion and we are giving you a branch missionary. So a branch missionary one of the young men in the branches who is preparign to go on there mission and so if we need there help then president will ask them to come serve with an elder for some time. So i recieved him today when i went to the mission office his name is Brother Bangura he has his mission call to nigeria he leaves in november. So anyways then president also told me about some big changes that are going to be happening in the branch but im not allowed to say anything yet and i dont know who all reads this so i will wait to tell you. but president said elder lancaster im placing alot of responsibility on you and i have prayed alot about it and have recieved and answer that you are more then ready for these tasks i have for you. I wanted to say i you sure your talking to the right elder haha. Anyways so it has been a very crazy week of trying to learn my area quick and learning everything i need to know. And i guess with this thing that is going to be happening with my branch the area 70 elder Cardon is going to be coming to my area and checking it out so thats a little nerve racking. But its good im very excited and i think everything will go well. When elder Chikwendu told christiana that he was leaving wow she started crying so hard!! then right before we left she turned to me and said only imagine what its going to be like when you leave. Also Christiana brought her whole family to my branch yesterday for church. its a very far place for her to travel but she said she is going to start coming on every 3 sunday to my branch haha. she is actually baptised she baptised over 20 years ago in bo. but her in sierra leone when you get mairried then you go to what ever church that your husband attends and so her husband changed her to another church. She talked him into letting her go every 3rd sunday so that she could bring me lunch to the church that was her excuse she told him. she really wants to be a full member of the church again so elder intsiful is going to start working with her husband. We have a baptism on friday. We will be baptising that girl that wasnt able to be baptised a few weeks ago because of the rain. I hope the rain isnt to bad this time. So thats that. mission is crazy but i love it so much. Once i heard the news it all began to make sense because this whole transfer i have felt like something wasnt right but now as all this has played out i have seen that it was nesasary for me to go through the challenges and everything i have gone through lately that i might be better prepared for what lies ahead. Thank you all for the love and support i love you all.

Elder Lancaster

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