Hello Family+Peeps,
Sorry for the wait because of Labor Day.
I was laboring too much, ha!
Last week was all over the place due
to what happened on P-day. For P-day we all got together and played more chair
soccer and I was not going to let another knee pop out of place. We had a lot
of fun doing activities while we were waiting for Elder Dotson and Elder
Newkirk to come - Elder Dotson had to get his hair all together and eat lunch.
We played more D&D during which we finished our quest. The sister missionaries were also there so it
made me feel even nerdier because of that occurrence. Elder Dotson had to leave
so Elder Weiss and I went down to say goodbye and pick up Elder Newkirk so he would
have a companionship while he waited for transfers. We played volleyball when
we got back to the church. We went over to the Bells to eat and Leah freaked
out Elder Newkirk by knowing his first name and also Elder Dotson's. It was
weird that she found out Elder Swann's because he said she would never know it.
We ended the night taking some food from the Mac house to our apartment for
Elder Newkirk to eat.
On transfer call day we didn't do
anything too important but we did go to Lineweaver and Elder Newkirk almost got
pinned (left outside the elevator doors) which was funny. We also helped move
some furniture for the sisters’ Broadway apartment. We all gathered around the
phone that night to hear our transfers. Elder
Swann got called to be with Elder Hardy in Culpepper (Elder Hardy is one
disobedient son of a gun) and I got sent to Farmville with Elder Martineau who
is just done getting trained. I was just
so mad from getting moved before death to a new area especially because the new
area is on bikes so it’s super lame. Good thing I have a bike though. We spent
all of the next day saying goodbye to the members, doing service for this
member in the Harrisonburg 2nd ward (the guy checked me out), had a
last district lunch where we ate things from our fridges and had a couple of
laughs, and just tracking people down. It was a rush around saying goodbye but
we got it done. We especially got to say goodbye to Joe and William Ingram. I
love those guys! They are the best.
The Wednesday night before transfers,
we and the Franklin elders and Elder Newkirk played board games all night,
which took forever, and by the time we finished the last game it was already
time for the Franklin elders to leave so that was pretty sad. I was so
exhausted the rest of the day.
Transfers were nice; we got there
just in time and President Wilson was telling us keys to success and talking a lot.
We found out there are a lot of sisters from Meridian here now. It’s a fun
place to be if you have to be away from Meridian. We came to the senior couple’s
car and loaded up all my stuff into it. It was nice to be able to say my final
goodbyes to a few elders like Elder Harris. It’s been fun seeing them at least
one more time. We drove back to Farmville and now let me tell you what is in
Farmville. It has a college in our area, all the necessities, hills that kill,
a set of sisters and a senior couple named the Chappells. We have a small,
inconsistent teaching pool and all the miles in the world. Elder Martineau is a
nice guy but gets on the weird side of things way too often sometimes. We live
in a house and I get my own bathroom to myself. No shampoo though, so I washed
my hair with hand soap until Monday. Things we did up until Monday include seeing
a less active, cutting a lawn, almost falling asleep in a lesson with recent
converts, helping sisters about the area, and trying to see some people.
Church was fun – they hold church in
a bought out store in a shopping center. It looks really nice inside but when
you look at the chapel part it looks like a Baptist church. I have a lot of fun
saying it’s like Win-Dixie. I taught Gospel
Principles since Elder M had gotten used to teaching it alone and I wanted to
teach it together. It was a very quiet class. It was fun having church there and the Norrises
fed us for the rest of the day and played games so we had some fun with them.
My legs have hurt at nights from all
the biking up hills. My cardio also
sucks at this point. It’s getting better, though. On Labor Day we went to the
high bridge trail where we walked in the hot sun to the high bridge, then
across it, and then back which was super hot. It was funny how all the
butterflies were landing on us. Then we got groceries and PVC pipe and played
Bang! with the senior couple and sisters.
That’s all I have for this week.
Love you all,
Elder McClure
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