So. News:
1) I am getting transferred out of Huntersville. We got a
call from President Craven Saturday informing us that I was going to be
companions with Elder Colinwood, one of the mission's senior
missionaries, down in Shelby .
I am not quite sure where this is. Elder Fulton
is also leaving Huntersville after 7 months here, and he's going to be
training, opening up a new area in Rock
Hill . This leads me to...
2) Huntersville is going to become a sister area. This one I
actually found pretty funny, since Dobson became a sister area right after I
left it, as well as Pineville. I am, quite frankly, cursed. Most of the men in
the ward were rather disappointed. My ward mission leader's response was the
best, though: "Are you freaking kidding me?"
3) I went on exchange with my district leader, Elder Parker,
on Friday. My Exchange Curse is still in effect. Basically, the Exchange
Curse is as follows: all appointments will fall through, and all events
will conspire so that my exchange will be a solid day of finding people to
teach. It doesn't matter what area I am in; people will cancel and the end
result will be hours and hours of knocking doors. And so it was with Elder
Parker.
With the exception of my very first exchange with
my very first District Leader, Elder Hyer, the Curse has been in effect
ever since. It has affected: two exchanges with Elder Collins,
two with Elder Jorgensen, my exchange with Elder Stringham, Elder
Larson, Elder Howell, Elder Steenson, two exchanges with Elder Brown, two
exchanges with Elder Christensen, two exchanges with Elder Merrill, two
exchanges with Elder Wright, and my exchanges with Elder
Risenmay, Elder Wilkinson, and Elder Parker. That's a total of 19
exchanges. I am truly cursed.
There's a plus to this, though: whenever I get cursed, the
other exchanging companionship experiences loads of miracles. And so it
was last Friday.
4) speaking of miracles, the Stevens family came to church
last Sunday. Everyone was gone because of Memorial Day, so I played piano
for Primary. The Stevens had a great time. They are super elect and very
prepared, and theywill get baptized. (When people start making you
cinnamon rolls for your appointments, you know that they're elect.)
I am happy to know that the coming Huntersville sisters will have
success in this area.
5) I have been writing Douglas Green, my RLDS investigator
in Pineville, since I came to Huntersville. President Craven informed me
that Brother Green was baptized and confirmed last weekend. That
was just the icing on the cake for me. I am so happy to know that I got to
contribute to his coming into the Church. I have been praying for
that man constantly since November 7th, and on May 26th he joined the
Church. The best part is, he will have be able to go through the temple before
I leave my mission. I have said many a prayer of thanks over this
news.
Well, I don't have all that much time to write. Since
yesterday was Memorial Day, President Craven decided to have Preparation Day be
today. Unfortunately, today is also transfers, with the result that many people
won't actually get a real Preparation Day. We have to boogie off to transfers
before too long, so I'm sorry if this letter is super short.
I love the Lord, and I hope you all are doing well. Love
you! Hurrah for Israel !
Elder Fisher
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