October 12th, 2016

         It's been a pretty good week! I had exchanges with Elder Sullivan who's in my district and it went great. Such a breath of fresh air haha I love exchanges because it gives you one on one time to really get to know other missionaries and help them and just make a good friendship. We had some deep chats about life and the mission is helping us for the rest of our life. He's been out a transfer longer than me so we are kind of in the same point of our mission and we are both loving it.

         Something really crappy that happened was while on exchange we got this call from a guy named Matthew who said he had been taught by some sister missionaries online and he is going to Uni at Plymouth and he wants to be baptized. We were super excited and planned to meet with him Monday. We called him Monday an hour before the appointment and he was coming and was really excited. The appointment time came and we were meeting at the chapel with a member. 10 min past and we called and it went straight to voicemail. We ended up calling 10 or so times and waiting for 45 min and he never showed up. If we still call him it goes straight to voicemail. We even tried calling on a different number and it still went to voicemail.... so either it was a really pointless elaborated joke... or he died on the way to coming. Which ever one it was it sucked.

           The rest of the day has been us moving houses. Moving is the worst!!!! There is so much junk in our flat and we aren't even close to being ready and we have be done by Friday... we'll see what happens. Next Tuesday is moves day and we get our call on Saturday but I'm pretty sure I'm staying. Things have been getting better with Tokoragi. It has been more of me having an attitude change that helped the whole situation. I was reading in Mosiah 24 and it talked about how they bore their trials with faith and patience and everything just worked out. So that's the lesson I'm learning from all of this. I just really don't want to be that missionary who gets bitter about everything when things aren't looking up and then looks back at his mission with negative feeling. I know a few people like that and they're a drag haha

Connor Hess phelps... I'm the wind beneath his wings

We're moving so we all decided to sleep on the floor and have a sleepover. No, there was no real reason for it and yes, we all woke up with sore backs haha