Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Un Tiempo de Cambios

Hey Everybody!

Fall most certainly is here!  The leaves are beautiful and I'm so grateful to be serving here.  I love the weather and the general atmosphere- it's so great.  I'll try to get a couple of pictures that sent off sometime soon to show what's been going on...

Anyways, this week has been interesting!  My companion actually had to go home to attend to some family matter back at home, so I got slapped on with Elder Warner and Elder Nelson who came in to take over the other half of the area when it was split.  We're back down to just one companionship covering it all, but at least with a trio, all it takes is one member to go out with us for us to be able to do a split, so we're working on having that down to help things keep running smoothly.  We should have both areas back up and running at the very least at the next transfers.  We'll see what happens in the meantime!

Anyways, crazy stuff has been going on all over this week!  Thursday we had to drive all the way down to Scarsdale again to finish getting our car fixed.  We then went again on Monday so that my companion could talk to President.  I've been to the office four times in the last six weeks or so, having never been there before.  The office elders delivered some stuff to our apartment on Friday and commented on how they had been seeing us a lot.  Elder Lee's (on of the office elders) face was great when we walked into the office on Monday.  Haha so that's definitely been interesting.  Another tricky thing- Friday-Saturday.  We had an exchange with the Zone Leaders on Friday, ending Saturday morning.  Friday night we realized that the Zone Leaders had to do a baptismal interview for Elder Nelson and Elder Warner, but they had agreed to come with Elder Holbrook and I to an appointment where we needed them at the same time.  After a crazy group planning session with the six of us, we somehow decided to have one of the zone leaders go with each of the companionships for the entire day.  It was a little crazy and hard to explain, but it was a lot of fun and we were able to get a lot done on both sides.  Sunday was fun too!  We hung out at the church and helped our branch president, President Romero, fill out the quarterly report.  President Romero is a funny guy, so I had a good time joking around with him and the branch clerk, Brother Milton.  After serving here in Newburgh, I'm actually pretty familiar with MLS.  I probably shouldn't be- not sure if they should be involving missionaries in such things, but oh well- haha.  Tuesday we spent the morning/early afternoon reaaranging the apartment.  We ended up taking out bunk beds and putting them together so that the top bunk is actually between two lower beds instead of just one.  Things have been pretty good!  Things are going well and as enjoyable as ever.  We're just adjusting to the trio life, but we're finding out lots of advantages to being a trio, so it's good!

Thanks for all the love and support back home!  You guys are great and I hope you have a good week!

-Elder Griffiths

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