Weekly Post - 7/5/2011

So it's Saturday morning, and Elder Medina and I are waiting for a phone call. It comes around 2 PM from President Jergensen, meaning that there is one of us getting a leadership. I start to feel nervous way worse than I was already because Elder Medina picked up. I can overhear the conversation of President saying he wants to talk to Elder Medina AND me! The anticipation! OH! AAAAAAHHH!! Elder Medina got a call to train and I have been transferred to Fairfield, Iowa. So I got lucky and got the very rare 6 week axe. I spent only 1 transfer in Keokuk with Elder Medina and it was one of the best transfers on my mission so far. We had two investigators on track for baptism and now I get a new area. I am super excited to be here though.

My new companion is Elder Christopher Wilson. We get along great, because well we have pretty awesome first names- Elder! Oh and our middle name's pretty sweet too, the only difference is we use different halves of our names (Chris/Topher).

Elder Wilson is from Eugene, Oregon and love to do outdoor stuff. He does deep sea fishing and wants to study about plants in college- I can't remember the word he uses...

So my first week here we have a baptism. It was very cool. I do not count it as my baptism however, because well I didn't really have anything to do with it, other than say the opening prayer. The opportunity to baptize Randy was given to me, they asked me if I would like to do it, but I turned it down, because well Randy didn't know me really yet, we'd only met the day before the service, and I wanted his baptism to mean something more, than just a missionary showing up to do it. Would I have liked to baptise him? Yes, I would love to be in the water baptizing someone- but it goes much deeper than that. I want him to have someone who means alot to him to baptize him. But! He and I have talked alot since I got here and we're tight; we give each other high fives and all that stuff. He's sweet. Besides I got to participate in the circle for his Confirmation! The sweet part too, was that it was fast and testimony meeting and he bore his testimony. Randy is solid, and one of the coolest and sweetest people I've met. Love the guy!

My first weekend in Fairfield BYU Vocal Point came and performed. I don't know who here knows who Vocal Point is, I'm about 99% sure all of you do since just like you they're from Provo! (Unless you're not!) But they are a 9 man a cappella group who covers famous songs and hymns in way sweet ways. They're amazing and one of my favorites to listen to. So basically they are InsideOut without the suck.

That was a very cool experience though, they performed 'All Creatures of Our God and King' and the audience cried; it was really powerful. The men in that group are not only killer singers, but they're spiritual giants. It was funny to me though how nobody could grasp the fact that the percussionist was beatboxing and even what beatboxing is. They were blown away when he did his own little solo song of Trashing the Camp. Yeah, you all should check them out, they're pretty sthweet.

And random enough one of the guys from Vocal Point gave the Large Group Meetings for me in the MTC! Weird. And I remembered him cause he's from New Zealand.

love ya, Ciao!

Elder Prows

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