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This week was an interesting one. Nothing crazy happened but it was transfers and had a strange outcome. Last transfer elder cox was supposed to go zone leader but it didn't end up happening and
president told him they'd talk about it this transfer. On the Monday before transfers president and the APs call the missionaries that are going to be training, district leaders, or zone leaders. So Monday
night we were waiting and waiting for elder cox to get a phone call but it never happened which really through us off. Tuesday is when transfer doctrine comes out. We got it and I stayed here in the
tyson's ward and elder cox went district leader and finish trainer which he was a little upset to find out about because he never got a phone call. It was super sad to have him leave. We'd become super
close. I'm sure we'll stay that way though. My new companion is Elder Cline from bakers city Oregon. So that's fun. He seems pretty cool. He's definitely not elder cox but I think we'll get a long well. He's very outspoken which is good and bad I suppose. We'll see how things go. We had a couple really good experiences with Gustavo and Cinthya this week. We went over Thursday night for just a minute to introduce elder cline to them. We talked for a bit then they, in their way, basically bore their testimonies to us of what they feel and know and why they're progressing and it was super awesome! They understand the restoration and it's so clear to them. They're also seeing "truthfulness" signs that are really random to us but to them it means that they're heading in the right direction and that they know we have the true gospel. It's been super sweet! We had a ward Christmas party on Friday that they came to as well. The party was good and friendly and they thought so as well. Sunday, yesterday, they came to church and we had dinner with them at our ward mission leaders house which went super well and was a lot of fun. And we got Mr. Grant to church! It was sweet. Elder Cline and I have the same opinion of boldness and dropping the hammer style of working with inactives so I'm pretty excited for us to get that going. Our ward has tons so here's hoping and praying that we can start getting them back to church! We didn't get as much work done this week due to transfers but it's expected and we're doing our best to get started. Today we are going into DC again
for some cheap shopping and just enjoying it while it's warm. So I guess it's pretty weird right now but these last few days have been in the 70's.. It's quite ridiculous for the middle of December but it's
whatever I guess. It definitely doesn't feel like Christmas time. Another pretty interesting thing proving the world is small. We've talked with a member who served his mission in Russia and there's a guy in our ward that's a bit shady but he lived in Russia for 15 years and ran into this missionary and then about 13 years later moved back to the US and into a ward in Virginia. First day in the ward he ran into the missionary who is now married and has 3 kids. Pretty random and weird and cool. Also there's a missionary here that's now my zone lord and I've totally ran into him before at a Morgan girls choice dance. He lives in Moab. Small world.. Adding to my random rambling we
haven't ran into crazy people recently. It's rather odd. Speaking of Russians, we have a Russian missionary (from Russia) serving here and he's cool but if you say anything about communists he'll deck ya in the face. He's done it! He's with an elder that I've become good friends with from Arizona who is super "America is the greatest place on earth" and it's going to get really funny! So yeah, there's my randomness of the week to help the extension of my email. It's been a good interesting week. I actually miss elder cox a lot so that kind of stinks but it'll all be good. Thanks as always for the love and support.
Elder Lucas

Transfers were actually super hard. It was weird. There's not been a time in my life really where I've been so connected to a group of people. Other than leaving for the mission, but we've become super close. Even the sisters, Well sister. Sister Christiansen went home and it was sad because we'd all become super close. That's the life of a missionary, I just didn't realize how hard it could be.

  A while back there were like 5 of us in the back of a car and Elder Cox said he was squantched and we all laughed and the word squantch kind of just stuck so our group was turned into the squantch squad. We don't have much to keep ourselves entertained with so we do our best with what we've got.

My zone before transfers