Christmas party and transfers!

Heyo! This week has been a very interesting, fun, and sad week. First on Tuesday we had interviews with President Lee and district meeting for pretty much the whole day. There are only 6 of us in my district! We are probably the smallest district in the mission but I'm not quite sure. Also our district is one of the last districts that President Lee visits so by the time he gets to us, he's tired out from all the interviews he's had. Everyone in my district had about 10 minute long interviews and it seemed like they all were pretty much the same. Anyways after district meeting we had an awesome district dinner at a pizza place where you get your own pizza and you tell them what you want on it. It was super good! Then we got frozen yogurt afterwards! It was an expensive but very fun night!

On Wednesday, we had did service as a district by raking this old lady's yard who is in our ward. She had a big yard and also a bunch of leaves on it so that took a while but it was fun and her caretaker gave us a bunch of soda so that made it even better! After that we set up for our mission Christmas party. It took a super long time because there were only 8 of us setting up about 30 tables and over 200 chairs! We made it fun though. After that me and Elder Roy went biking in the surprisingly cold Florida weather. We found a lot of people to talk to none of which became new investigators but are definitely people we will revisit. We had some pretty funny conversations with some people and one of them told us about their religion called eleven twenty two which is literally a rave! She said there's lazers and fog machines and Pink Floyd music with a guy reading out of the Bible. It was definitely a very different way to worship.

Thursday was the mission Christmas party! It was super awesome! First I was able to meet up with everyone from my mtc district and reunite with them! Then every zone had a 10 minute skit planned out and they were super funny! President and Sister Lee had one too with the APs which was super funny! President Lee kept forgetting his line and Sister Lee was getting super mad but was trying not to show it. It was hilarious! My zone did the 12 weeks of training (like the 12 days of Christmas). It was super funny! I don't know if they posted videos of them on the mission page but just in case they did I was in week 3 and week 9. After that we ate a lot of food! It was a classic Christmas meal but they had tons of different desserts! It was super good! Lastly we had a spiritual musical devotional. Our mission is super talented! There are so many missionaries who can sing and play instruments amazingly! There were like 12 different songs that were performed and each one brought a really strong spirit. It was honestly one of the best times on my mission so far.

Saturday was the transfer call! The results: I'm the only one in my district getting transferred. I'm getting transferred to Arlington. I really wanted to stay in Fleming Island one more transfer but the Lord needs me elsewhere so I will go where he wants me to go. My new companions name is Elder Blanchard and I'll meet him on Wednesday. I've heard that Arlington is super awesome and everyone there is super humble so it's going to be fun talking to people. I'm super excited!

On Sunday I gave a talk in sacrament meeting. It was about seeing everything through the Lord's eyes. I based it off the Elder Zwick's talk this last General Conference. It is a great talk an I suggest y'all read it. It was super hard saying goodbye to a lot of people and I still need to go say goodbye to more people these next few days. Goodbyes are hard but I'll get through them. I'm am just super excited to finally be done with training and Fleming Island was a great place to be trained! I'll miss servin here but I know I'll love Arlington and wherever I go after that because I'm doing the Lord's work by bring others unto Christ and that's all I need to be doing to enjoy my mission. The Lord blesses those who want to improve and I know that I'm improving more and more each day and Arlington will help me tremendously. I love all of you and I'm thankful for each one of you and the role y'all have played in my life. God bless.

Love,

Elder Plumb