Dear Family and Friends
Well, life is totally different than the last time I talked to y’all. Holy cow so much has happened. Elder Owens and I were flushed out of San Jacinto. Yep. Both of us… gone. There goes all of our hard work and efforts. I need to have a better attitude about it but… the last time I got flushed out of an area all of our sweet progressing investigators went nowhere and were eventually dropped. It’s just a really hard transition to go from two missionaries to two totally different ones.
My new area is Pasadena South. I’m excited that it’s a ghetto bike area. Finally! I feel like I am back in Broadway again. My companion’s name is Elder Fryer. He just barely finished getting trained, so he is still pretty dang new. Nothing much has been going on here for the last little bit. I hate hearing rumors about areas from other missionaries. Apparently this one isn’t a favorite. This area hasn’t had an investigator at church for the past two transfers. I’ve realized that every single area I have been sent to come transfers has been like this. I hear stories of missionaries all the time going into areas that already have four or five baptismal dates set and a huge investigator pool… I don’t understand why literally every single area I have arrived in is like this. There is literally nothing going on. And then I ALWAYS get transferred as soon as the fruits come. As soon as we build the investigator pool back up, we start getting some solid investigators, start setting some baptismal dates…. BOOM. gone. Well, I guess maybe there is a reason for it. But it’s pretty frustrating. It’s been the cycle of my mission.
I really loved being in the San Jacinto branch. I wouldn’t say I liked it nearly as much as Beaumont, but there are some sweet families there. It’s always really hard to say goodbye to people. I’m just really worried for the people we had because pretty much every single one of them said they didn’t want any other missionaries. But hey, the message is the same right? No matter who the missionaries are.
So… that’s pretty much all I’ve got to say for this one. Life is a lot different. I guess it comes back to this phrase that I have loved using on my mission, “when life gives you rocks, make lemonade.” I’m down to make lemonade out of rocks hahahahaha man I just cracked myself up. I guess I’ll just do the same thing I have done in every other area and that’s work my eyes out. So, here goes.
Love y’all
Elder Viitanen
Carlos, go forward and make good job like you have done this far. Pasadena needs you! You will enjoy this place, too. I love you Take care.
Love Mummi