South Carolina Columbia

  4/28 Hi everyone,   This week was transfers and sadly Elder Enoch was moved out.  He is now up in Greenville.  Before he left he gave me a nice seashell necklace.  Everyone in the area is missing him.   My new companion is from Utah.   So I'm back to being from a cooler place than my companion.  Elder Cannon is a really cool guy and he was also born on March 13th.  So he is exactly 3 years younger than me. It was fun going to transfers because I got to see a bunch of cool people like the legendary Elder Flint from Simpsonville first.  It was great.  But other than all that it was a pretty normal week.  We are spending most of our time working with our recent converts.  Some of them are needing a lot of attention.     Love, Elder Gurney

  4/21 Hi Everyone,   This week was a great week! We went to the Temple with the Kyzers and it was awesome.  Brother Kyzer has been a member for 5 years and when we were sitting in the waiting room he said that he had sat in this room so many times wishing he could have his bride with him and now he finally can.  We did baptisms and it was awesome being there.  I also ran into Elder Buckhoff! He is a service missionary in my first area and it had probably been a year since I had seen him.  He was at the temple and it was funny talking to him.  He said I was the first missionary he remembers.  

April 14 Hi everyone,   This week was a pretty great! We went to the temple as a mission on Tuesday! It was really nice being there with everyone!  I then went on exchanges with Elder Lockington who I have been in the same zone with for 9 months.  It was fun talking and working with him.   He goes home in a week and we did some walking down memory lane.   For pday,  we went to the zoo and that was a lot of fun! The zoo here is apparently a top 3 zoo in the world.   I am excited for this week because I get to go to the temple with Paula, she was baptized a couple weeks ago. It will be great! I have never done baptisms here so I am excited!   Love, Elder Gurney

4/7 Hi everyone,   This week was a super busy week but it was really fun! We had some big meetings with a bunch of missionaries and then a big zone meeting.  It was hectic.   We then had General Conference and I made it on the big screen! They were talking about the hurricane that came through here a couple months ago and how we were all big help and then I popped up on screen. So I got a shout out during general conference which was awesome.  HA!  It was right after conference during the world report but it was fun to see myself.  Anyway this week we have a mission temple trip so that will be great! Love Elder Gurney  

March 31 Hi everyone,   This week was a really great week! We were able to help our friend Paula be baptized! She has been attending church for a year and a half so the whole ward was excited for her! It was great! She was baptized by her husband and it was very wholesome!   Love Elder Gurney

  3/24 Hi Everyone,   This week was a great week! We were able to see our friend Richard get baptized.   He was in tears and super happy. It was great to see. Richard is a really cool story because he was actually taught by missionaries about 3 months before we started teaching him.  But last time he was rude to the missionaries and his son cursed out my now companion Elder Enoch.  Richard felt really bad and reached out to apologize and has now changed his life around.     This week I had a zone conference with another zone and I was able to see a couple old companions.   It was a great week tho and this week will be having another baptism for our friend Paula which will be great.   Love, Elder Gurney

  3/17 Hi Everyone,   This week was a pretty standard week.  Neither me nor Elder Enoch got transferred so we get to be together for another 6 weeks! I am excited because we have a couple people who are getting ready for baptism.   This week our friend Richard is being baptized and we are super excited for him.  He has been wanting to get baptized super badly.  He'll get baptized on Saturday.     Love, Elder Gurney