First Transfers!

Hello Everyone!

These past few weeks have been pretty crazy. For anyone wondering, the weather is still holding up here. It is almost December, and it is currently 75 out, so I can't complain about that. Transfers are this week, which means that a lot of missionaries will be coming in and out of this area. Fortunately, I am still in the Leland ward. I am still in training, so I will be here for this next transfer, but who knows after that! I could be in a completely different area in six weeks!

These past couple of weeks, we have been able to get a lot of service done! Our friend, Buddy Watkins, and his family are moving, so we got to help out with that over the past couple of weeks. We got to load up the truck a couple of times, and then one time we went over there to rake leaves to get his house ready to sell. It was so awesome to see how grateful he was, and it made us feel so good for helping him. His family is so awesome, and they will be missed.

We also helped another family move this past week. It fell on the same day as our district council, so we were able to get all 8 missionaries in our district in on the move that day. Other members of our ward were there as well, and the move only took a couple of hours. It was awesome. Afterwords, one of the members of the family wrote about it on Facebook, and she was very appreciative of what we did, and it made us feel so good. Other than that, we have had other service opportunities, but that's been our main one over the past couple of weeks.

For those of you that don't know, missionary work has changed a lot since the pandemic has started. Before Covid, we were able to knock on doors, and street contact to find new people, but now, we obviously can't do that. Now, a lot of our finding is done through our Facebook page, Following Jesus Christ in Wilmington and Jacksonville. On this page, we make videos about different topics to try to invite others to come unto Christ. It's super cool, because people will reach out to us. It's like they are knocking on our door, how cool is that!

Things are moving along here in Leland. There's a lot of potential, and it's only a matter of time before missionary work really starts rolling, and we can't wait!

Elder Orchard

 

In front of the USS North Carolina

 

Here is a little bee that wanted to hang out on my hand

 

The dumpster is a walk, so we had to use our big brains to find a solution haha

Service and Disc Golf

Hello Everyone!

I'm coming up on almost a month in North Carolina already! It has gone by crazy fast. I'll let you in on a little bit of what's been happening.

First of all, it is beautiful here! Today (Nov 9) it was 82(insert degrees sign here). Yes, that is right, it was 82(insert degrees sign here) at the beginning of November. Sorry Nebraska people haha. I am pretty close to the coast, so that is probably playing a part in that. I still haven't seen the ocean yet, but hopefully that will happen soon. Fingers crossed. I'm not allowed to go in the water, or on the beach, but it would still be cool to see the ocean, and be on the pier, stuff like that. 

We have been able to get a little bit of service here, but not a ton. We have been helping a lot with a recently baptized member moving. We helped him once the first week we were here, and twice in the past week. It has been so awesome to help him move, and I know that he really appreciates the help. A week or so ago we helped clean up the park after a storm rolled through, but other than that, we haven't been getting too much service.

We have three people in our teaching pool right now. Two of them have been coming to sacrament meetings consistently, and so that is super awesome! I can see that they are progressing, which is awesome. 

The best part out here so far is the members/the people in general. They are so nice! Everyone is just so kind, and you can tell that they really care about you. The members in our ward are super awesome. I can tell why everyone loves it here so much. 

If something absolutely crazy happens, then I will for sure let everyone know haha. I might move this to a biweekly blog post. I'm not sure yet, but whatever I do, I will try to be more consistent with my blog posts.

I hope everyone is doing great!

 

Grant

 

 

 A dog and I while we were helping with a move.

 

 My disc golf disc