Transfer Day, New Companion & Meetings

Dear Family, 

How are all of you doing today!?! So I have some updates, oh boy do I have some updates!!! So I need you to do me a favor and please look up tuition costs for BYU-I and BYU Hawaii and what it will take to get in and all of that stuff (This is kind of exciting as I didn't think University was a direction he was going to go). 
I am still in Santa Maria with my new comp, who is a convert. 

Elders Routledge & Levis

MOM what the heck? You look all fashionable now. You got freaking sweet hair, your outfit looks pretty rad and well, you don't look like the mom I left. Looks good!!! (Nothing better than getting a compliment from your son)

Both my comp and I have decided to give up sweets and have had no candy or any of that. We even put a note on the dinner calendar to have no deserts because that is not going to help me lose my fat haha (Opps...hope he's not too disappointed with all the Canadian chocolate bars and candy I put in his last package lol).

Monday was good. We had dinner with Brother Sawyer and said goodbye to a few families for Elder Huston, then went back to the apartment so he could finish up his packing. 

Companion for the day

Tuesday was transfer day and it was kind of weird so I dropped off Elder Huston and picked up a missionary for the morning, just until I got my actual companion. So me and my....temporary companion went and did some service helping set up the gym for a Relief Society activity. I picked up my new comp, Elder Levis, and we did some shopping, got him all settled in and then went to meet some of the ward members. 

Usual, goofy Elder R.

Wednesday was good. We had service in the morning helping out at the food bank. We also had a really good lunch with one of our recent converts. I took Elder Levis to meet all of our awesome people, including Marlon, the Stoddards and Ramona. We also had a DLC, which is a District Leader meeting and that was cool. We sat with the Zone Leaders and talked all about the area. 

Thursday we drove 2.5 hours South to Oxnard, my last area, for District Leader Training with President Felix. I saw a lot of my old companions so that was cool. It was a really good meeting with lots of really cool things brought up. It is stuff we already know, just a new, cool way to see it. Then we went back to Santa Maria and had a real Korean dinner with the Kims and some of that stuff was super good!!!

So much green in California!

Friday we had a really powerful District meeting and I had everyone pick a Christ-like attribute they want to work on over the next 7 weeks. Some of the attributes chosen and how excited everyone was, got me all excited. I have chosen Charity so I think it is going to be a really good transfer. We have a freaking great district!!
We also had to do our planning from the day before because we were in Oxnard all day so we couldn't do it yesterday. 

Elder Levis (on the right)

Saturday we had our apartment inspection and it passed, of course (He is pretty particular about things being neat and tidy lol). We had a nice visit with Brother Sawyer and get this, so we were walking and my comp saw this dog that looked like a fox so he wanted to talk to the lady and so he called out to her and we started talking and right away our conversation drew to a close. Well, before she walked off I noticed she had a British accent and you know how I love my British girls hehe, just kidding, anyway, Hannah is from South Yorkshire and I told her that and that is where she is from, so we ended up talking for like 30 more minutes. She knows all about the church and has lots of Mormon friends and loves Waterton, Canada so that was cool. 


Sunday we had a regional broadcast from Salt Lake and the new Apostle addressed us so that was really cool. We also had a convert fireside and I was asked to speak a few weeks back, so I did and it was really cool. There weren't many people there because this is the first one, but it was cool and they want to do this monthly, so yea, cool day. 

Well mom, dad, shellllbbbbbeeeee and Scoooooooooty 2 hottie...I miss all 4 of you and love you all so much. Tell everyone I love them and I'll talk to you all very soon. Have a gr8 day lol ttyl. bye bye ;)

Love Elder R O U T L E D G E