Reunited with an Old Friend
What a week everyone! Buckle up because this is a good one!
So first I'm sorry I didn't get an email out last week. It was
just SO crazy. I got the word Sunday night that I would be transferring, which
was VERY unexpected. I thought for sure I was gonna stay in my little town of
Wellington, but the Lord had other plans. So I had to pack everything up very
quickly as we had to be in Wichita the next day since good ole Elder Briggs was
headed home. Thankfully I got everything packed in time! We spent most of
Monday and all of Tuesday with some Elders in Wichita which was good fun!
Wednesday was a wild day! We usually all meet at one of the
churches in Wichita for transfers but there’s some angry dude who doesn't like
when we gather there, so all the transferring missionaries met up at a movie
theater parking lot! We couldn't get out of our cars, so we just waited until
our President sent out an email that had a big google spreadsheet on it and we
were to find our new comp and leave! So. My new area is... Lawrence YSA!! I'm
so pumped!! For those of you who don't know Kansas, Lawrence is the town where
the University of Kansas is located (AKA KU) and I am assigned to the Young
Single Adult ward so pretty much once I can talk to people again I'm gonna
spend all day on campus walking around trying to talk to people! My comp is
Elder Hohmann from Tooele Utah. He's a good kid! The best part tho is that my
MTC companion Elder Scroggin is serving in the same area! So we see each other
a lot and it's GOOD fun. Not too much fun of course... but yeah I love it here.
It's very different from my last area. Lawrence is a big college town with lots
of restaurants and college kids (most with leftist views, which is fine... I'm
politically neutral as a missionary)!
Let's see, so we do a ton of service here. We help out at
the Salvation Army preparing boxes of food, we serve at another place giving
out food to homeless people here in the area, and then other random
things!
We've done a bit of exploring here and boy Lawrence is very
different than all my other areas! There as so many trees here and lots of
green and even some hills! It's all very beautiful.
Another cool thing that happened this week was that we got a
referral from some missionaries in Arizona! They had a YSA girl going to
college out there and she moved home, which is here, and so we're pumped about
that! I'll keep y'all updated with her!
Yep that's all I've got for the week! The work of the Lord
truly cannot be stopped! I'm grateful to be a missionary at this time and for
all the crazy experiences I'm getting to have! God is good!
Hoorah for Israel!
Go Jayhawks!!
Warmest regards,
Elder Nixon
Ps... everyone tell my brother Jordan to stop trying to
steal my Hawaiian shirt style. Everyone knows it's my look and he can't have
it.
