South Carolina Columbia

  Sept 22 Hi Everyone,    These last couple weeks have been good .. we are working hard but I don't really have much to report.   We were able to go to the temple.  It was great to see some missionaries that I have served with before.   Last Monday, our district woke up early to visit a place nicknamed "Pretty Place".  It is actually called Fred W. Symmes Chapel and is part of the YMCA Camp Greenville.  We arrived when the sun was rising.  It was beautiful and we took some great pics.     We had dinner with a couple in our ward, Brother and Sister Gunter.   He served his mission in South Korea.  He was there in the 70s and told us about how he was part of a missionary boy band.  The Mission President at that time was trying to get people to just know about the church and decided to do it through music.  One of the members of the band is the leader of the Tabernacle Choir, Mack Wilberg.    

  Sept 1 Hi everyone! Sorry I haven't been the best at emailing. I will try and do better. This week was transfers and I'm still in my same area.  I did get a new companion.  His name is Elder Collotzi from Utah. He's pretty cool.    Last week we had stake conference and during the meeting they announced that they would be splitting the stake and creating a new stake.  My mission president was at the conference and I could tell by the look on his face that he didn't know anything about it.   Transfers were the following week.  I am sure he had to make a lot of changes.   While I am in the same ward, I lost part of my area and gained a new part.  Thankfully one of the families that we are teaching and progressing towards baptism is still in my area.     The pictures are from a fun multi Stake conference where everyone in the upstate came.  I saw some old faces and met some new people.     Love ...