Week 6 of this big 7 week transfer. I can barely believe we are at this point now! It feels like last week I went and picked up Elder Garner! This transfer I will be finishing up my third here. You can usually trust your gut, as to when you will be moved out of an area. As for now... My gut can say "si", and other times it says "no". It's rather annoying! I may have made mention one that we try and figure out the transfer weeks in advance to try and peg as to what's going to go down. Since there are 18 Spanish Missionaries, the chances are that we can figure it out. For example when I went to Miami River with Elder Whittingham; Elder Ramsey and I were able to peg the transfer right on the money. However that was in the time of President Jensen. The Myth is: 2 transfers later he knew where he wanted you, with which companion, making the route there somewhat logical. However with President Nilsen there seems to be no rhyme nor reason to the transfer. Yesterday Elder Ramsey and I made an attempt to pin what was going to happen. We then realized there are too many variables. :P So you should have one more week of sending me a letter while I am in Kentucky, after that, I suggest the mission office!
Now that I've rambled about the anticipation of this week I'll roll back to what happened this week.... What did happen this week.... OH! I went through my first Ice storm! You should be able to pull up my pictures and see what happened to "Boo" aka: Martin (Martin is our Alcoholic investigator. (The "Boo" chugs gas)) From what I understand this ice-storm was child's play. There was an Ice-storm last year that plastered an inch of ice on the cars. So even if you dared hit the roads, you couldn't even get into your car!
Fortunately they've done fairly well to get salt down on time to keep anything bad from happening.
I have to thank for the last package that was sent. President Avila sends his thanks for the Nauvoo photo Album. I have to send my thanks for the No-Bake-Cookies. They were a lot better than the ones I tried to make when Mom and Dad were at LoToJa.
This past week our branch had the Noche de Talentos. I'm sorry I don't have pictures of that. I was the run around stage monkey boy that kept things moving. Elder Ramsey was busy making sure his Puerto Rican investigators didn't go to crazy, Elder Homewood did back flips and what not, and Elder Garner manned the Cookie/Drink table. (He scored the best job) The talent show became more of an improv-night once little kids got up and starting singing "I am a Child of God". Overall it was a good event. By no means formal, but it was a good activity! (Informality contrast: We scheduled it to be at 6 p.m. we finally started at 7 p.m. due to the fact that people didn't make it until 6:45.)
That is the bulk of our week! Ice-storms, Talent Shows, and Transfer Anxiety. It's all good!
I love you all, more than no-bake-cookies!
Para Siempre,Elder A. Ipson
The Great Ohio Columbus Mission
