Transfers Boiiii

Last picture with Elder Bott

Hello friends and family!

Sorry I didn't give any heads up but because of transfers we had our pday moved to today.

Well transfers were this week so my time with Elder Bott time has come to an end. We had some awesome times and I'm grateful for the time we got to spend together. My new companion is Elder Jones and he is from Kaysville Utah! He has been out for like 15 months and he is a total baller. He came out one transfer after Elder Bott. He's district leader and is a super smart guy. Today we treated ourselves. Well I already bought some Christmas cards but we bought lights, steaks to grill up tonight on our mini grill so it is going to be a party with this guy. We will have to be a little more thrifty with our money after our spending spree today but we will be all good. I am stoked for the time we get to spend together.

This week was pretty slow and we didn't have a whole lot happen. We saw a lot of little miracles this week and we have been writing them down as they happen. Light the World has officially started! So even though the work was super slow we tried to pump up the Light the World initiative with a lot of people. I am so excited for the chance that we have to do stuff as missionaries. We are going to try to think of some creative stuff and it should be lots of fun.

Our members are awesome and have been doing some awesome stuff too.

This week we tried contacting a lot of people but we didn't have anyone show up to their return appointment so we will just keep trying!

We did tons of service on Saturday! We did some more Harvey clean up. Someone had knocked down their trailer and we had to carry it all into a huge burn pile. It might just be the most Vidor thing that has happened to me on my mission. There were people in tank tops with the word redneck literally tattooed on their bicep and they blasted some country music from their jeeps and decided to hook up some subs and put them on the top so it would be even louder. Then they were pulling huge logs with their four wheeler..... it was just something you had to be there for. We also had the opportunity to help a member put up some dry wall again so that was fun. I mostly just moved all of the dry wall in so I'm not that skilled haha!

But all in all, it was an awesome week and I'm glad I get to spend Christmas here in Vidor! I'm looking forward to the coming weeks and thank you so much to everyone who has sent me something I really appreciate it. Next week I will hook you all up with some baller pictures from our Christmas card photo shoot but I can't send them until they get to my family for the big reveal so get excited for next week!

I'm excited for the future here and we will keep working hard and hopefully find some success and be able to lift up everyone's spirits during the holidays and point them to Christ. I'm hoping that people start to get back into their houses so we can be doing a little more stuff with them but we are having an awesome time!

Remember all that is light comes from the Savior so serve like Him and spread His love this Christmas season! Love you all and talk to you next week!

Elder Cameron Larson

This was our last district photo at Sister Housman’s birthday party! Elder Anderson and Elder Bott are now gone RIP

Mom’s Questions:

Who is your new companion, where is he from, how long has he been serving?
My new companion is an Elder Jones! He was serving at Jennings Louisiana so he was in our zone. So, I've seen him but never really got to talk to him. He came out September of last year so I guess it has been like 15 months for him!

Did you get your 2nd suit?
Yes, I got my 2nd suit

Did you get your package with all the Christmas letters?
Yes! It is the best! I love it so much so tell everyone thank you!

Did your Mission President give you any advice when you met with him one-on-one for transfers?
Yeah, he gave me some advice. I guess I get frustrated because we have really just been reporting all 0's which is hard for me to do since I don't like to be not good at things especially missionary work! But he told me to enjoy the process of serving and helping people's lives rather than stress so much on whether or not they make it to church that week or are able to meet with us again. So just enjoying being able to help them out and brighten their day since it's pretty hard in Vidor right now

Were you able to go back and teach the family in the bus some more?
No, they canceled on us for this week and last week but we will keep stopping by and trying!

What have you been doing as missionaries with the Light the World initiative?
We do stuff every day! Day 1 we wrote a thank you letter to the lady that was in charge of our packages and mail and told her how much it means to us and yesterday for the neighbor one we went and gave all of our neighbor’s cookies! So, it has been really fun!