You said it, Buzz

Sounds like another eventful life in the Metcalf home. Hopefully I can match that.

Nope, I am not getting transferred which I am stoked on because I love Nac so much. Apparently the Stake President put in a word for me to stay which gets me excited. My time in Nac will be at least 7 1/2 months which means the Lord has much more work for me to do apparently and the pressure is on. Like Grandpa Metcalf says, may the Lord make you equal to every challenge. Although I think most of the time I make up a lot of the pressure in stress.

This past week was awesome. We had a missionary with what may be some mental blocks in the ward come home early so Bishop promptly assigned him to be with us as much as possible. It has been a big help to me and I am not entirely sure why. He was only on his mission for about 6 weeks so it's almost like double training in a way (Elder Taylor is staying too.) It just does not seem like a burden though and for some reason it feels like I am receiving a lot of help from unknown sources (I'll take it!)

Last Sunday we had a couple bring their 17 year old Granddaughter to church so we promptly set up an appointment to see them the following Thursday. The lesson began kind of weird (for lack of a better term) and you could tell that she was extremely shy towards anyone so after a little silent prayer, we simply stopped any teaching and started just a normal conversation. Well it wasn't long before she started to open up and really want to know what made our Church so special compared to all the others. She then accepted a baptismal date for the 29th of this month. Why wait?

We went on exchanges on Tuesday after district meeting and Elder Woodward came with me and Isaac. We mostly did some tracting and got into a few doors. A interesting experience was when someone didn't let us in and simply replied "come back tomorrow." So in my mind it was oh well... For some reason the next day we went back anyway. She let us right in. We taught the restoration and asked, "Why would the Book of Mormon be important to you if it is true?" Her response was interesting, "It would mean that I am in the wrong Church." So she committed to read.

We have been teaching a lady who I swear we know from before this life. I tracted her out with Elder Braford several months ago and she was dropped for a while but we picked her back up again. She came to Church. She knows the Book of Mormon to be true. She loves all the members. But her husband is the concern and is filling her up with doubts. Let the games begin... There is something about resolving concerns that is fun yet frustrating all at the same time.

Another lesson this week was with an older man named George. In one of our lessons about a month ago he asked for us to give him the gift of the Holy Ghost because he felt like we had the authority to do so. "George, you have to be baptized first." That planted some interesting seeds so we were considering for a moment if we were to drop him or not. When we got to the lesson he immediately prayed (something we could never get him to do in front of us before) and began to explain to us that he is reading and praying diligently to know the truth but still is finding his answer. He explained that it will be a tough choice to make since he has had one Church 70 years of his life...

Well that is a few of the fun things going on. I am excited to not get transferred but it does put the pressure on to really do well this transfer. I have no excuses. A great ward with missionary trust, an area that I know well and a good companion and district. Wish and pray me luck!!!

By the way, where are all the baby pictures???

Love Elder Metcalf