Zebra
So, it has been quite interesting here lately. Starting off on Wednesday, we had a baptismal interview with Alfie, and he passed. So, I was spending the day in Burlington, which was quite neat. The missionary I was on exchanges with was way cool and we have a whole lot in common (he loves sports and video games). It was quite interesting. On Saturday, we had the baptism for Alfie..that was pretty sweet. In 2 transfers here in Henderson, I have been a part of 7 people being baptized, compared to 7 that I had before. It has been doubled..which has been pretty cool. There are lots of special people here. Well, this transfer has just ended, and on this Saturday, we recieved calls. Before we headed out to our baptism, we called back the Assistants, who had left a message. They didn’t answer, so we left, did the baptism (I gave a talk and we found out that Alfie’s girlfriend wants to be baptized). We came back to do planning, and I called Elder Scribner and he told me the big news:
He told me that Henderson was going to become a Zebra. Now for those of you (I assume almost all) who do now know the mission language, a Zebra is when you have one Elder who speaks spanish and one that just speaks english (hence a zebra has black and white stripes). So…that means, I am the only one who speaks spanish, I will have to teach all the lessons to the hispanics all by myself. I am going to have to get a lot of exchanges with the Hispanic guys! Another note..the new Elder…whose name is Elder Baird..goes home in 6 weeks! So, that means that he will go home and I will remain in Henderson for another 6 weeks (6 months total) and maybe for my last transfer also…who knows! I know it will be a challenge, this next transfer (as others have told me so), but I’m looking forward to it, as we have 2 english investigators (Amber and Lenny) that hopefully will be baptized. We’ll see what becomes of this mess!
Untill next week,
Elder Hardy