Well, it's transfers. In a nutshell, I'm staying in Pensacola. Why? I don't know. President Jensen told me when I got transferred here that he didn't know why. Elder G is leaving for Madison and Elder B is coming. I think I've heard his name once but I've never met him. It seems as though I'm never able to hold on to a companion for very long. I'm not complaining or anything, I'll go where I am needed and with whom I'm needed. It just seems that I am destined to move around much in my time here. We'll see what happens. I like Pensacola. I think there are some wonderful members here and there is much to do and a large pile of work to be done. Someone has to do it.
Anyway, it twas an most exhalirating week. We had some success and were able to put in our efforts and were able to reap somewhat. We recieved a referral for a fantastic lady who is really excited about the Gospel and about the church. Her name is J. She found the church from the TV show "Sister Wives". She watched and correctly reasoned that there is no way that we actually did that. So she started investigating the church, bought a copy of the Book of Mormon from a thrift store and began to read it. She has read most of mormon.org already. She's even already halfway through 2 Nephi in only a couple weeks! She's very smart and has already done much research and already know tons. I think it's really cool how whenever we ask her "Do you have any questions?"; she often says "There are no questions, just answers". It just really helped me out. Most of my efforts here on my mission are devoted to finding and helping people like her. It's pretty cool. =)
I really have learned so much and changed/grown significantly in my time here on my mission. I can feel that I'm a different person, and I just have to trust in the Lord that I've grown in a postive direction.
In other news, I had lamb the other day! It was actually really good. It had eggplant with it and everything. It wasn't very lamby though, it just tasted like meat with tomatos and eggplant. It was really good though.
Thank you for sending the salad recipe! I also have a recipe. =) It's for Dad. It's from Brother J and it's very simple.
BROTHER J'S COOKIES
1 batch of chocalate chip cookie dough
An oven
1. Make chocalate chip cookie dough.
2. Seperate dough into two parts.
3. Bake half of the dough in cookie shape for the required time
4. After pulling cookies out of the oven, smear the remaining cookie dough on top of the baked cookie.
5. Enjoy. =)
I hope you all have a wonderful week and know that I miss you. A lot.
Love,
Elder Matthew Carlson
