Well people, Elder McClure got his transfer from the mission president and he is going to Lawrenceville, Virginia. This is south of Wakefield (where I started a year ago), out in the country. My new companion will be Elder Mathia. Basically, I will be leaving my favorite area to go to my old district where I first became a Richmond, Virginia missionary. It’s like you have the opportunity to go back in the past and say to yourself in a struggling area, “You’re going to do great things in the future and experience a lot of trials, but don't give up.” I feel a part of me will always stay in Waynesboro and I will miss it dearly. In fact, I'm kind of anxious about it because I have made the best of friends with some of the members here. I know the Divvers family, who I have been teaching, will be heartbroken. The mission president is sending me to Lawrenceville so I can scope out the area (because I'm so familiar with it) in order to figure out how we can split it. We need to be able to fit more missionaries in here, because we're getting a lot more since the age for missionary service dropped. The great thing is that President Perry first asked me to accept the transfer by saying, "Do you trust me, Elder McClure?" I do - he is an inspired man of God.
This week was crazy because we had a Christmas mission conference on Tuesday and they gave us stockings full of goodies like toothbrushes and giant meat sticks. In the process, I did an exchange with our zone leader and we tracted in the night which was really bizarre. We found a few people and met a couple of crazy ones, too. When I came back the next day, the zone leaders announced they will be taking Elder Downs with them, so it was just me and Elder Russell for the remainder of his mission life until Tuesday. In that time we were able to teach Isabel the Word of Wisdom and help her understand why addictions to some things (like drugs) are bad because the addicted person has to take more and more in order to have the same feeling.
We also put together stockings for a less active family and did other things to help make sure they have a good Christmas. We just mainly put a bunch of candy in stockings. We helped out with the Bishop’s Storehouse. We also got to talk with Isabel again while her sister was there – she’s really funny. We also got to teach the Divvers this week. They are awesome! Patrick is reading the Book of Mormon now and I got to teach the family a lesson on the gospel of Jesus Christ. They want to be baptized - they are just waiting for Patrick to be ready.
I got to go to a Christmas party the ward threw and Elder Russell sat on Santa’s lap. Last night we went to a member’s house and we were just acting like super goobers, being funny and all. I’m going to miss Elder Russell.
Well, if you are sending a letter or anything now just send it to the mission headquarters (the address on Midlothian Turnpike). Love you all!
Elder McClure
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