So here I am back home in Knoxville,
I like Knoxville. I’m serving in the young single adults branch right now in
downtown Knoxville which is pretty sweet, we actually cover 2 whole
zones/stakes worth of YSA's. I also bought an Asheville "locals" t-shirt
from a GUY wearing a hat with a feather in it and studded spikey high heels
before I left... that’s Asheville for ya.
I had a stake conference today in
Knoxville and I was able to see tons of people from Farragut, my first area, it
was fantastic. I could live in that ward. We took a big van around and
delivered beds around the mission for like 8 hours and I guess that’s a regular
thing. We are crazy with transfer stuff right now, the decisions behind
transfers is a really cool and inspired process. We will be picking up the new
missionaries on Tuesday and transfers are Wednesday and then we take the
departing missionaries to the airport on Thursday morning. The last part is
especially going to be weird because ill be driving my trainer to his flight...
it'll be poetic, but not in the cute Shel Silverstien type way more like a sad
Edger Allen Poe kind of poetic... I might cry I’ll miss having him around. I
think we are supposed to be hitting up the cereal bar (yeah a restaurant that
only serves cereal---whatt??!!!) before he goes.
As far as the preaching at the Baptist
church went, the spirit constrained us and we didn’t go. It was a trap,
unfortunate but true. Oh my companions are Elders Garber and Mumm. Elder Garber
is training Elder Mumm and I to be the new assistants for the transition for
the new mission president (didn’t you do something like that on your mission
dad?). So yeah I’ll be here at least 4.5 months then my last transfer I’ll
either stay or go into the field again (whatever the new president decides.) But
its pretty cool to work closely with president and see a new side of the work.
Feels like my lips are fastened around the end of a fire hose right now and the
chief just turned it on full blast, but hey it’ll be fine! Life’s good the gospel is true!
Love ya!
Elder bakker
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