Transferred!

Whats up world?
 OK OK!  What a crazy week! So this past week was transfers, and I for sure thought that I was getting transferred, so I said all my good bye's on Sunday, kinda hoping  that I would not be there next week, not because I was sick of the ward or anything I have just been there for a long time and I was assuming that I would be leaving! Well it turns out that I stayed!!! LOL just kidding! So ya I was moved to Morgan City, with elder Bailey from Utah, and he is way cool! Right when I got here, and here is right by the Gulf of Mexico there just happens to be this hurricane that hits Texas  and you might be  thinking what does a hurricane hitting Texas have to do to me, well we have been getting a ton of rain, and I mean a ton of rain... so ya we have been stuck inside because of rain!!!!!!!!!!  But for the most part it's still really hot when it is not raining, and when its not raining we are tracking!  Which is fun kinda, I mean it is a ton of fun!!!!! ya for sure! Other then that I am in a branch again ya there is like 15 members ok more like 25! but still dang! Life is good I guess, just got to keep going, that's all we can do and that is what is asked of us to do!

Anyway love you all have a good week! 

Love Elder Gordon 

11 more months...

ok so the past week has been packed with fun, spiritual stuff, boring and mind blowing knowledge, so first the fun... We went on a hike up in Mississippi and it was way cool, there were these waterfalls, that we had hear about and wanted to go see. We hiked down a trail for about a mile then we came to a river and we just had to walk down the river and kinda climb around and it was really fun.

On Wednesday we went to the temple which is always super awesome!  I went with some elder from around the area that I have not seen for a while and a sister missionary that had gone home awhile ago and she was here showing her mom and dad around LA, but i was fun to see them! BUT the spiritual highlight of the week was on Saturday.We had a big meeting in Baton Rouge with Elder Jörg Klebingat, (from the quorum of 70) and he talked to us for 4 hours about a lot of things, not really how to be better missionary but how to be better disciples! It was awesome! He gave us statistics about how 10 years down the road this many missionaries  will be less active and what he was doing was trying to prevent that. He talked about who we should marry!!! But he made a long 4 hour meeting into one that felt like it ended way to fast, which for me is hard to do, he had this really good story where this church leader had come to this meeting, and when he had gotten there, people were just kinda sitting all around, and he started by asking them to all move to the center of the chapel,  some did it without question,  others did it with complaint and others just did not move! He was bothered by the ones that did not listen so he got up and said, you guys are not ready for what I have to say and he left. So right before elder Klebingat had told this story he had all of the elders that were in the front rows get up and move so the sister's could sit up front! I was kinda bothered by this because I had gotten there early and I had a good spot in the 3rd row and I was on the edge so I could have plenty of space.  When I had to move I was now sitting way in the back with two elder's a little too close for my comfort and I was behind a kid that kept moved his head back and forth way too often and I couldn't see the speaker without moving my heard around each time he moved his head.  But then I thought about it and I realized that it was not about me right then and there, it was about learning, and all I had to do was listen and pay attention! Once I got that down and threw my head into it the meeting turned into a awesome meeting!!!!!   Other than that I am getting transferred to Morgan City tomorrow morning!!! so wish me luck!!!

LOVE ELDER GORDON  

Lost track of the weeks!

ok sorry for the lack of letters lately, and I can't promise it will be any better soon but I will try!

Anyway the past couple weeks have been fun for sure, I am still in Pride ya, transfers are next week so maybe I will be transferred somewhere else, we will see... The weather has been ok I am more use to the heat which is sad because it's hot... hopefully I am not a baby when it comes winter when I am home! Some of the things that have happened, church is fun, we go in with the youth because the old people class is full of old people and I am not old so I don't really fit in there, so i don't go. but I like working whit the youth, It was not too long ago when I was in their spot. 

We went on a hike last week that was fun, I walked thru 67 spider webs within a 5 mile hike... but no we have been looking for these waterfalls and we have failed to find them, but then other day we were tracking and we were talking to this guy and we started talking about hiking (don't ask how) and he gave me a map and told me where to go to see waterfalls so for sure  I will let you know when I find them. I do have some pictures but no real way to send them, but I do have some! We  have someone coming to speak to us this Saturday so that should be cool and I will let you know who it was next week also along with what he teaches us. Anyway love you all have a good week!

Love Elder Gordon

Week 51 and 52

Hello my people sorry I have not been writing much, I feel bad! So I will writ you a letter now...

 

 So last year there was a lot of "black lives matters" going on in Baton Rouge, lives were taken and it was out of hand, but then the flood happened and on August 13 everyone was united, and it was so cool to see people that were fighting just the day before, now helping each other in a cause that was bigger then them! It still crazy we are almost a year from when the flood happened and there are still people fixing their homes and there are still homeless people from the flood. It brakes my heart to see a family with kids live in their parents house because their home,  that they had with everything they had, was washed away. I am so glad that I can help them in anyway that I can! 

I am glad to be out here, I would not change it for anything, life is pretty much the same I will let you know if anything does change, me and my comp spoke yesterday and Hiken gave a good talk about all the different kinds of missionary work and I talked about the Book of Mormon ya, it was funny because it do not like the build up to giving the talk, so I just did not worry about it until the night before, there for there was no time to worry about it, and I still gave a good 20 min talk! So ya I am killing it! 

Love you guys 

Love Elder Gordon