Transfers Galore!

Hey everyone! 

     Transfers had occurred, and a lot of new changes! When Elder Evans came last week, he was pretty much saying that the culture is going to change! He was right and there have been changes. 

    Elder Evans said that if we get released from our callings, we need to let them go and let others have the opportunity to serve. I think it has applied to me and Elder Liston. Elder Liston was just barely

released from being the Assistant to the President and is now working with me and my companion as well as Elder Alder, the other zone leader, in our ward. Elder Liston replaced Elder Scovel, who I knew from Ba De. It's so weird to see him not as an Assistant to the President anymore, but seeing him as a somewhat normal missionary (he is the zone leader). I also was released as the English unit leader, and our poor, crazy busy District Leader, Elder Merrill, is the new English Unit leader. It's ok, I think God wanted him to learn the importance of English class. 

     It's crazy! So many Elders are whitewash training! (Whitewashing means that the two missionaries who were in the area both left, so the incoming missionaries are both new to the area.) Elder Scovel from Ba De as well as Xinzhu is whitewash training somewhere in Taoyuan again, the same county as Ba De. Elder Welker who replaced Elder Scovel in Ba De finally got his wish and is training (whitewash).

     So, here are the changes: Before, Sisters and Elders were allowed to teach opposite gender. Now, when we have guy investigators, we have to give them to the elders, and the elders have to give us the sisters. Which means, I am not kidding, we have to give them all but three of our investigators! And they haven't given us any female investigators, because they don't have any. All of our investigators are pretty much guys. We are at that point at the beginning of every transfer that I don't like, the start from scratch point, the point where the whiteboard is wiped clean and we have to go finding new people because we either dropped or gave away our investigators. 

     President Jergensen has been telling us lately to focus on working with members and finding families, since families build up the church the best. So that is probably one reason why we are starting over, so that we can focus more on families and less on single, older guys (people in Taiwan get married in their 30's, and think we Americans are crazy for getting married in our early 20's). 

     Sorry, gotta go. Love you all! Remember to do CPR!

-小貝姊妹/Xiao Bei Jie Mei/Small Sister Shell/Sister Brinkerhoff