Well here I am, transfer 5 in Hammond. It
is a crazy feeling! I have been here for so long already! This transfer
I will hit my year mark and never have served in NOLA which is strange
for a Spanish Elder.
So the awesome news about
me staying is that my new companion is Elder Magee! He is from Alpine
Utah and was one of the Elders I had really hoped to serve with! We have
been having a great time trying to learn Spanish together. Elder Magee
was actually at the CCM with me at the same time but he was originally
assigned to serve in Peru. He was there for a transfer and got sick and
had to go home and get re-assigned. He came to Louisiana as an English
Elder but has been changed back to being a Spanish Elder with me!!
This
past week wasn't too eventful. I was helping Elder Barney get ready to
go home for the first little bit of it and then I have been showing
Elder Magee the area and introducing him to people here in Hammond. The
one really fun thing that we did go out and do was Spanish tracting in a
trailer park and best part of all, it was raining like crazy! It was
honestly the most fun I have had out tracting on the mission. We
probably looked and sounded like complete fools and we even had a guy
tell us that our Spanish was terrible but hey we were having fun and
trying our best to spread the Gospel! We did get one good lesson with
our new investigator Miguel. He is from Honduras and is here for work.
He has met with the missionaries in the past and was excited to have us
meet with him again!
Other than that there isn't much to report for this week. I am excited for the coming transfer
with Elder Magee and I think we are going to get some good work done
here!
Have a great week y'all!
Elder Stoddard
