Week 19 - New Companion and an organized apartment!

We didn't get a letter yesterday because it was MLK day and the Libraries were closed, but we finally got one today...yay!

This week has been really good! Some exciting changes have taken place as I recently got a new companion. His name is Elder Wright. He is from Springville, UT and he has been on his mission for 8 months. He's a way nice guy and he is a lot of fun. He's super diligent and has a really good attitude about missionary work. Another great thing is that he's super clean and organized, so now our apartment looks great! I'm really excited to work with him this transfer.

"Brother Coffin" is actually President Coffin and he's my branch president. He's a way nice guy. I'm glad they're all hooking you up with pictures since I don't send all that many... sorry.

We actually have our first lesson with P. and her husband M. l tonight. I'm really excited but also really nervous. I just want everything to go really well because I have really high hopes for them. We will be teaching them along with their daughter A. who got baptized in November.

Something that we've been working on a lot more is asking people for referrals. It's something that I didn't really focus on all that much, but I have been trying to get more consistent with that and I've already seen it start to pay off. We've started to ask literally everyone we come in contact with and it amazes me how willing people are to guide us to their friends and co-workers. So we have been receiving a lot more referrals and we're hoping that we can get some solid investigators out of it. 

Something else we have been focusing on is visiting less active members. There are a lot of less active members in our area and I find that they get overlooked sometimes. It's just such a great feeling when you visit someone who hasn't been to church in a couple of months and then you see them show up to church the next Sunday. And then other times I have to work on my patience because it's hard to see someone commit to coming to church and then not show up. 

I told him about an old Mother's Day card that I came across that he wrote to me when he was 11...it was soooo cute!  Haha I'm glad you could find that card that I wrote you so long ago. I'm also very glad you could figure out the "secret message". I wasn't sure how hard I should make it, but I promise the next code will be a bit more challenging ;)

Love,

Elder Thayne

Elder Thayne and his new companion Elder Wright