South Carolina Columbia

Dec 30 Hi Everyone! Merry Christmas! I hope everyone had a nice Christmas. We had a fun time! We went to three members dinner. It was really nice! We ate good! Thanks yall for the great gifts! It has been really nice using all of them! Other than that it has been a pretty typical week! It feels like Christmas was forever ago but we got to help clear out a house for a guy and we all got some fun clothes. It was pretty fun seeing all the clothes! We also got to play secret santa and delivered some gifts to some people. It was really fun and we took pictures with all the gifts. But Merry Christmas yall! This week should be a fun one!

Dec 23 Hi Everyone,   This was a pretty fun week! It started out with us going to Columbia to help out at a Salvation Army location right in front of USC's stadium.   It was nice helping out and it was a multi zone event. It was great! I then went on exchanges with Elder Gregory and Elder Forese. It was a blast working with them.   After exchanges,we drove up to my old area for a multi zone christmas conference. It was great there too. We had some competition to see who could stick the most red cotton balls to there nose and other fun games like that.   Since I was in my old area of Simpsonville, we stopped by a family that I taught.  Idk if anyone remembers Cierra and her two kids but I stopped by and saw them. They are on date to be baptized Feb 1st and were super happy to see me.  I played some football with the kids Zion and Korbyn and then left.    For Pday today,  we checked out SC State. It's the college here in Orangeburg. They w...

  Dec 16 Hi everyone,   This week I got transfered!  I am back out of Georgia and now in Orangeburg South Carolina! It's a blast here! It is a lot like my first area Statesboro. We drive through cotton fields all day and knock trailers! It's the best. Everyone down here is really southern and it is really fun. I have a new really cool companion named Elder Sellers and he is 4 months out so it's fun teaching him some things. But it was a great week. Transfers was a lot of fun and the ward here is great. I am super excited for Orangeburg! Love, Elder Gurney

December 2 Hi Everyone,   Happy Thanksgiving everyone!  I had a great thanksgiving even though I was sick. The people here are super nice and I was stuffed.  I woke up Tuesday sick and pretty much checked out the rest of the week but still tried to make most of my Thanksgiving.  We went fishing and sat round a fire pit which was nice but was too sick for the turkey the bowl that morning.     The rest of the week was pretty normal.  It was on and off work cause I was sick.  I did get to work with one of my zone leaders.  Elder Briscoe is a cool guy from Saratoga Springs and we had a lot of fun on exchanges.  We ended up going to a house with a giant gnome and a bunch of plastic dinosaurs. It was really creepy but funny.  The gnome was huge.  But other than that not much really happened.   The rest of the week was pretty normal.  It was on and off work cause I was sick.  I did get to work with one of my z...