It's about time I get sent out of Foley to go experience elsewhere. I lived there for almost 8 months and I was definitely ready to leave. The area is amazing, I'll miss it dearly, but I felt like my growth was at a peak and it was time to get going. I kind of figured I was leaving too. As soon as I found out that my recent convert, Kristina, gave us an engagement announcement and told us she had plans of getting sealed when she could, that's when I figured my work is probably done in Foley. It was basically mission accomplished for her, I've been working with her since the very beginning of my mission and now she's making the big covenants and ordinances with God and I couldn't be happier. Sealed for time and all eternity and I was apart of that, surreal.
Now to the new area; Northport. This area is very cool. Our apartment is way nice, two separate bathrooms which is always a blessing, a nice big study area and my new comp is fairly clean so it all looks great in here. Oh and the bed... yeah I've been sleeping really well. I don't know what brand my mattress is but I love it and sleep like a baby when I'm on it. My new comp, Elder Jaszkowiak, is super dope. His name is spelt really odd, I'm not even gonna try to explain to you how to pronounce it, but most of the time I call him Elder Jazz for short. He's 6'5" which in interesting since I'm not 6'5", like at all. He's from Ogden, Utah and him and I get along really well. Very chill guy, only has one more transfer left so I am going to kill him off and get a new companion. He is the Zone Leader for this area which would probably make you think that I'm a Zone Leader too but that is incorrect. Depending on the area, we either have one or two ZL's but this area does not need two. So I'm what they call the "zone chump" or just the Zone Leader's companion. It's kinda nice actually, basically I experience all the benefits of being a Zone Leader like going to private leadership meetings and doing exchanges with the AP's, but I don't hold any of the responsibility! So, yeah, that's pretty great. This area is beautiful, it's right next to the University of Alabama so I see a lot of attractive women while driving around here and I'll never complain about that. Speaking of driving, our car situation is interesting. We drive a 2019 Ford Ekko Sport which basically is a roller skate. Super intimidating looking. But hey, it doesn't have a TiWi (the driving buzzkill that yells at us if we go too fast) since it is a rental vehicle. We still are definitely supposed to monitor our speed, but if I ever am almost late to an appointment, I now have the option to not be late if you know what I mean. Oh and I was definitely joking about it being intimidating, it's actually pretty pathetic looking. I kinda just feel like a soccer mom while driving it.
The work in this area is interesting. It for sure feels like the ward is on pause due to COVID which isn't good so we are working on getting this ward going, trying to make them realize they can still function even if they can't meet. I'm very stoked to be here because Elder Jaszkowiak definitely wants to grind it out for his last transfer and I'm happy to help in doing that.
That's all I got for this week, til next time.
Love y'all
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Elder Batman
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