What a week! My first day this transfer started off at 2:15 AM. We had spent the night in a hotel with all the departing missionaries and had to leave at 3:00 to get them to the airport. We dropped them off, which was kind of surreal as we saw the very last moments of their missions. It was transfer day too, so there was no time to rest! We ended up working the whole rest of the day and finally finished right at 10:30, making a nice 20-hour work day. We were able to eat lunch at a Great Harvest that gives missionaries food for free! For dinner I just had time for a handful of gummy bears, but it seemed like a worthy snack. We also took another missionary to the airport today at 3:00 to go get his Visa, so we haven't had an abundance of sleep.
But! It does have its perks. Such as our red Tacoma and our mini-fridge. Also, on days we go to the airport, instead of taking the Tacoma, we get a Tundra because it has a special airport parking pass. There's also a local McDonald's that gives missionaries free meals, so life is pretty good.
One of my other favorite things is that every Sunday night we get to eat dinner with the mission president and his family before we have our correlation meeting with him. They still have three kids at home and are just a super cool family.
We cover two English wards, called Stonegate and Bermuda, so I broke out my English tag for the first time. Going to church in English was also pretty odd. I keep making different comments to Elder Stewart in Spanish forgetting that he can't understand me.
Today a member gave us haircuts, and her husband showed off his tarantula collection! It was pretty sweet.
Even though I got transferred, Elder Gastelum and I are still assigned to do the English class broadcast together every Monday. The only sad thing is that we just barely switched our P-Day from Tuesday to Monday, so now we are filming and our P-Day is cut a few hours short.
I love the wards we cover a lot. They seem to be full of bearded men with tattoos and they're all super cool. There are some incredible conversion stories we've heard.
We also started teaching a man from Hong-Kong when I got here! He is really cool. We had one lesson, and he told us that after so many years of focusing on work and material things, he decided he wanted to find something more meaningful. He talked to a friend who is a member of the church, the friend put him in touch with us, and it is a lot of fun. He came to church on Sunday and afterwards we had a lesson with a recently returned missionary and him. It went super well. He is very open, and it is rewarding to teach him because he has a pretty limited knowledge of religion in general, so everything is very basic.
Anyways, we are always running! There are frequently missionaries sleeping with us in order to go to the temple or the airport or something, and there is a lot of work to do, not to mention just trying to be normal missionaries! But it is very rewarding and I think God must bless us a lot. Even though we don't ever have time for anything, we are always happy and never too stressed.
It is a rainy day, which is a rare thing in Las Vegas! I am loving it. Makes me happy. Count your blessings.
'Til we meet,
Elder Harris
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