Sorry for my lack on the weekly's! It's been crazy and with me getting transferred when I didn't think I was gonna be transferred it like totally caught me off guard. I had to say a lot of hard goodbyes. So I'm sure y'all are wondering what's going on with me. Well I'm now in Madison Florida. Which is like a really small town with about 3,000 people maybe. I'm serving in a branch, we had about maybe 50 people at church. Which was good cause we usually have like low 40s. I'm also covering another branch which is the Perry branch. Which is about almost an hour south of me. So trying to get down there is gonna be kind of difficult. We also have to go to Tallahassee Florida every Tuesday for district meeting. Which is an hour west of us. So we are closer to missionaries outside of my mission then we are to the missionaries in Tallahassee haha. So hopefully that kind of maps out like how small it is and how far away I am from everything. There is no Walmart here so that explains how small it is here and we don't even have a piggly wiggily here haha.
So I am done training my greenie Elder bowman he is still in FWB and has a new a companion Elder Daw. I'm in Madison like I said with my new companion Elder Hammon. He's been out for 9 months. He's a really cool and great missionary! I'm just trying to work really hard so the members can see that we are hard working missionaries that they can trust with their friends. A lot of cool and amazing members here. I want to turn this branch into a ward. I think it can be done with love and ministering to members. A lot of members have already said to us that they are really excited to have me here. And have us here as a companionship. So I'm excited for the work! It's just a change going from seeing like 20 missionaries a day to nothing. Haha
Anyways so transfers was cool! Yet horrible! I had to say goodbye to my best friends!!! My heart broke. But it was awesome cause I got to catch up with a lot of the sisters that were going home. All the sisters that were going home were the sisters I came out with. So that was really flipping crazy!!! I didn't like that part.. I'm not that old in the mission basically at 18 months. I don't like that lol all the members are like wow you go home soon haha I'm like no I just got done getting trained lol
Once I got to my new area we unpacked and went and saw a few people. We also go to this K9 bite club place. Where they train the dogs to be protective dogs. It's so cool but so scary haha. They have this one dog named huey and they tell everyone not to look him in the eyes if he looks at you. Look away and and if they come and bite you don't move just give them what ever they bite. They will release faster. So that's like the only scary part about watching them train these dogs. Another cool thing that we are gonna do is we have a returned missionary in our branch and he has a friend that's kinda interested so to break the ice he's gonna take us fishing with his friend so I'm excited about that! They also might be able to take me to the coast and fish for sharks from the shore!
Update on the leg:
It's still here haha. I'm still going to be wearing the boot for another two weeks. Hopefully I'll be able to start walking in a few weeks. The doctor said possibly two more weeks but I'll still need to wear an ankle brace and what not for another month or two.
ill send yall some pictures from this week! I love you all I hope you have a great week! Sorry...? this isnt crazy long ill put more into it next week!
P.S. Shout to all the sisters that just got home, Yall were amazing missionaries! Keep sharing the Gospel and have fun with all your Endless P-Days! hahaa
Love
Elder Graham
