Letter from Tacoma #86: June 19, 2017

HOOOOOOOOO Boy! This transfer is really kicking my butt!


So, this week I got a new companion, Elder Stewart. Here's a pic of him by some spray-painted flowers we found.

He's fun to be around and work with... but everything he does pushes all of my buttons without him meaning to. Apparently God wants me to work on patience because I haven't felt this much impatience for any of my companions, not even the ones that I didn't get along with. We get along, but he seems to be able to do everything that annoys me just because that's his normal behavior.

I'm hanging in there though. Just having to adjust to his behavior, because truthfully there's nothing wrong with it. It's just all the little things he does, and I need to ignore those things... but I'm sure that process will take a while and I won't like it.

Oh yeah, and he has a looooooot of things. He only has two transfers left, so it's understandable that he'd accumulate a lot of stuff, but I've never seen a missionary bring this much to transfer meeting:


​Excluding one small suitcase in from another missionary, all of that stuff is Elder Stewarts...



But despite the troubles I'm having adjusting, we managed to have a pretty good week. We found a couple of new investigators on Friday. They're Jennifer (20) and Pam (72) Djordjavic. Pam is Jennifer's adoptive mother, and Pam isn't all that interested in coming to church but she has gone before and she loves it. She's really there to encourage Jennifer to go because she needs to go to a church. Jennifer is more of an introvert, so I'm pretty sure she wouldn't have started learning if it weren't for Pam's encouragement.

We found them on Friday, had a lesson about church and the Book of Mormon on Saturday, and got a member family, The Giles, to bring Jennifer to church on Sunday. It all worked great! Jennifer seems to like the church, and she seems to like the Book of Mormon a lot, too. She's really elect! We have a lesson set up for Tuesday with her, and Bro Giles is coming to that as well.

Funny enough, after the lesson on Tuesday, Bro Giles will be packing and heading to Germany that night for a full week. So, that's funny that Mom and Dad are going there, too. Heh, 'tis the season for Europe trips, I guess, even though they're going for a friend's wedding.

Anyways, that's really about it. Not much else to say other than we're still working hard. I've noticed though that the times that I feel entirely peaceful are when we're out working without any worry. So, I'll be focusing on working without worry this week, see if there's any improvement between this week and last.

Love you all!
Thanks for reading!
-Elder R. Austin Moe
Wa-Tac Missionary

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