Sorry I didn't get a chance to email yesterday, because tomorrow is transfers, and so we have pday on tuesday instead. Elder Stoker is being transferred to a small town of about 500 people in Floyd, VA. He's training, and is taking the area over from sister missionaries. He's way excited for it. My new companion is Elder Dumke, who is just as tall, and weighs just as much as I do. Haha. He's a stud though. He's been out for about 11 months, and has trained twice, while being a district leader at the same time. I'm really excited for this next transfer because we have some way sweet missionaries coming into the zone, and we're going to be playing basketball a lot on pdays. We're also getting a third companionship in the ward, out in Montgomery, WV which is the home of WVU Tech. It's a rougher area, but that's ok, the two going in there can handle themselves nicely. President is also starting to move sisters into the city areas so that they're around more members and therefore somewhat safer. The first step of that is happening in Teays valley, just about half hour away, where we're getting some sisters. They're the first in the zone for about 7.5 months.
Things are going awesome. We went and made cookies with a member and his kids. It was funny because a Taylor Swift Christmas song came onto his christmas playlist on his iPod, and Elder Stoker was kind enough to tell him and his kids about how much I like her. HA. So they all frosted cookies with things like "E.W. + T.S." which was made by an 8 year old. It was pretty funny. Thankfully I'm not the only one getting all the grief.
We're also getting things planned out for Christmas now. We don't quite know what time we'll be calling, but we're gonna get home from church probably around 2pm our time. We'll see. It's way crazy how fast time is flying by, because I swear we just had Thanksgiving!
Not a whole lot is really going on at the moment, just a lot of meetings and some craziness of transfers coming up. It's way nice to stay so busy. I don't know what I'm gonna do with myself when I get released from being a Zone Leader! I don't know what I'm going to do with myself when I get home! I can't even imagine myself not being a missionary! AHHH
Pictures are of Elder Stoker and I with a Recent Convert that we taught and was baptized in October. He recently has had some surgeries to help him get his Parkinsons under control a little more. Another is of Elder Stoker and I at a baptism from November. He's a way solid kid. Then the last is an excerpt from a book about George Washington by Glenn Beck. Apparently George Washington had a general named Wiederholdt. Sweet, huh!?
Love y'all!
~Elder Shain C Wiederholt
888 Oakwood Rd Ste 310
Charleston, WV 25314
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