Well, this week has been interesting.
So, Wednesday was transfer meeting. Transfer meetings are pretty
great. It starts off with the introduction of the new missionaries
coming into the mission. That was fun and also pretty strange as it
meant that there are now missionaries around that are younger
missionaries than me. Whoa. How'd that happen? I'm starting to get old
(well not really, but its a start). President chooses some people to
share their testimonies, which is of course always good to hear. Then
the fun starts of finding out who is going where and with whom. Its all
pretty exciting. As a Viet missionary, there wsn't a whole lot of
surprise or suspense because I knew who my new companion would be as
soon as I walked in the doors of the chapel. There weren't a whole lot
of options to begin with anyways. So my new companion is Elder Hoopes,
or Anh Ca Phuc (sorry no Viet markings, the library pcs are pretty
locked). He is from Wyoming and has been here in Houston for a bit more
than a year. Its only been half a week, but it seems like things will be
pretty good.
The work in the area is still moving pretty slow. We have
essentially nobody to teach that is interested enough to progress. We
are trying to fix that, but it has been a slow process and we aren't
really sure what else we can do to find new investigators. One thing
that should be pretty good though is a ward activity that we are helping
put together. It is for the Vietnamese New Year. It should be great,
with a lot of Asian food and decoratinos and such. The Lunar New Year is
a huge holiday in the culture so we are hoping that it will be good. We
are trying to make it a good activity, but not just a party, a
missionary finding tool. We are planning on doing a church tour at the
end to help people feel the Spirit which is especially strong at the
church.
Other than that, we are just trying to get things going here. We
are hoping that this activity will help jump start the area, but we
can't just rely on that. We'll see what we come up with to get the work
moving.
Thats about all I've got for this week. Hope all is going well out
there in the cold world (yeah it was almost 80 degrees yesterday).
Love
Elder Phong Manhardt
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