Storms, Lost Keys, and Zone Leader

Dear All,

OMGoodness the weather is just out of control.  On Saturday morning I woke up to what I thought was clear skies and cold temperatures.  Next thing I know, I look out the window and everything is white.  We just got dumped on out of nowhere!  We had a couple of tornado warnings, but nothing happened.  Where at in Georgia was that tornado?  Part of the mission goes into Georgia:  Dalton and Ringgold.

I have not been transferred yet, but I will be on Wednesday.  I'll let you know where I'm at next week.  The crazy thing is, Elder 'Goofball' Henriquez has been called to be a zone leader.  I told him when we were together that I would make him zone leader material.

Prophecy fulfilled.

Once again I was off on exchange for a couple days this week.  One exciting story that happened was on my exchange with Elder Becker.  So Elder Becker and I were biking around to contact people in freezing temperatures.  Well, they weren't home so we decided to knock on the doors of nearby neighbors and preach the gospel.  After we had baptized zero persons, we returned to our bicycles which were locked up to a street sign.  Elder Becker reaches into his pocket, fumbles his keys and drops them.  I hear a tinkling and think nothing of it, but Elder Becker sighs "Oh no..."  That's when, before even looking, I knew that the keys had fallen down a storm drain.

Classic.

So as illustrated in the attached photos, we had to remove the (I'm sure it was close to) 200 lb. grate and Elder Becker climbed down to retrieve the keys.  The grate was very difficult to move.  Go to your nearest roadway and try it.  Good luck.

Okay, the greatest news is our investigator Gary is progressing so well toward baptism.  We taught him the WoW this week and it went superb.  He's going to quit smoking this week!  Also, we taught the Law of Chastity and that went very well as well.  I think that's actually the first time I've taught the Law of Chastity to a real live investigator on my mission.  Crazy.  It's not as awkward as you might think.

Fine, because I'm out of things to talk about, I'll just let you know that I'm being transferred this Wednesday to serve with Elder LeSueur!!! In South Knoxville (So really I'm just moving across the river).  Elder LeSueur and I will be zone leaders though so I'm really excited and humbled at the same time.  It's a dream come true though, Elder LeSueur and I dreamed about this day in the MTC.  I told him in the MTC that if we ever served together, we would either do nothing or we would be the greatest companionship EVER!

Pray for the latter.

AGH!  I'm out of time.  Sorry, no deep spiritual thought.  Next week though...

Love,
Elder Grabinger