This week was CRAZY! Lets see what all happened... The biggest thing was my
very first experience with Transfers! Pretty exciting, but I'll get to that
later. We also had a missionary leaving the Owego Ward to go preach in Las
Vegas. Also, I got to speak in Sacrament Meeting... Fun! All in all, it was a
very busy, very eventful, and very fun week.
Last Monday had some cool events happen... Cesar , one of the coolest
people out ever, taught Elder Baird and I a few things. A lot of REALLY
tough exercise workouts. He's such a cool man! He's 72 years old and has a lot
of different health difficulties, but he is such a good example to me! He is
ALWAYS at Church, no matter what. He is a super hard worker and is always doing
stuff for his wife. He's also super funny and loves teaching us
missionaries the things he's learned in his life. It was really good to get to
spend time with him. Then we met with a girl , who has been coming
back to Church lately. She is a really great girl that I've loved meeting with
lately. We had a
very spiritual lesson with her on staying strong in the faith and the things we
can do in order to always help out testimonies grow.
Throughout the rest of the week, we had some great lessons with
investigators! We have some really great work going on and sometime soon... we
should start seeing a few people really progress in the Gospel. It's exciting to
see.
Another one of our investigators is super awesome! She's really fun to meet
with and really loves learning about our church. After our lesson this past
week, she told us about "slag", which is a rock that is naturally partial glass.
Then, she gave Elder Baird and I our own pieces of Slag. We later took them
home, cleaned them up, and now they look pretty sweet! Mine looks like a big,
black rock with a blue-ish tint to it, but if help up to light or viewed at the
right angle, it is actually a dark teal color of glass. It's super cool!
Other miscellanious news- This week, I decided that I needed a little bit
more variety on my ties, so we made a quick stop at the "Open Door Mission" in
Owego. (It's basically like a DI) In there, I was able to find 4 new (to
me) ties that all looked pretty good! In fact, I'm wearing on of them right now.
Anyway, I was able to get 4, high quality, good looking ties for only 7 dollars.
How cool is that?!? So I now have a few more to mix it up occasionally. :) Also,
we were able to finally get the mini copies of Preach My Gospel! It's awesome to
have a little copy to have in my backpack that doesn't weigh as much. So that
was really great!
So this Saturday was transfer calls... The really scary day that comes
every 6 weeks for missionaries. All day, we were worried that even though Elder
Baird is training me, he might get transferred away. So at about 7:50 PM, we
got a call from our zone leaders informing Elder Baird that he would be staying
in Owego, and that I would be serving in.... Owego. Thankfully, I get to continue working here for a while! What a relief! In 6
weeks from now, I'll get the joy of going through that again...
Then Sunday was a great day! I was lucky enough to get to speak about the
Sacrament, the importance of it, and what we can do to prepare for it. My talk
was...ok. I had a lot of people tell me I did a good job, but I'm sure I'll get
better as I get more practice. Then Sister Cox gave her farewell address to the congregation. That was really great to
hear! She left today, and she'll be a great missionary! Kinda crazy thought
though... If I were to serve in Owego towards the end of my mission, I could
actually be at her homecoming as well! How weird would that be?!? We also had
one of our investigators at church, and once again- She loved it! I'm
glad she's enjoying it and it's really exciting seeing how her life is changing
as we meet with her and help her understand God's plans for her.
Now, here I am at another P-Day! After this, I'm going to be off for my
missionary duties once again! Grocery shopping, cleaning the car, laundry, and
writing letters! Wouldn't have it any other way!
I'm really grateful I get to stay here in Owego for a while longer. I'm
really loving the people in the ward, the people we're teaching, and all of the
ways that I'm growing as I serve there. I'm glad for this oppertunity to serve
here and am starting to find out why exactly my Heavenly Father has sent me to
Owego, New York!
As school is starting up again and life is getting busy for friends and
family back home, I wish you all the best! You're all in my prayers!
Love you all!
-Elder Mitch Hussey
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