Posts for Elder_Hoffman
Sent to the Northern Hinterlands...
2008 September 15
Hey All! So... I got transfered. Elder Hoffman stayed put... he's training a greenie (I think his name is Elder Farnsworth). I'm executing a hit on Elder Ingham. In SPARKS. Waay north of Vegas. So I'm in the Reno North Zone now, Sparks North District. We (me & Elder Ingham) cover the Pyramid Lake and Sparks 8th Wards. Elder Ingham is the district leader here. This makes the 3rd district leader that I've served as companion to. The thing that's funny about coming here is that this is the second area I've come to where Elder ...
Chapter 5... with some uncertainty
2008 September 08
So they decided to push back transfer calls to Tuesday. That's a little annoying... I figured that since President McCracken had to go to a meeting on Tuesday they would just do transfer calls on Saturday as per normal...nope. It's probably a good idea to send stuff to the mission office for the time being. Things have gone mostly the same this week. No great improvements. Not really the greatest past couple of days either: I'm a little under the weather, and I've got more bike repair to do (I just need an allen ...
More of the same... transfers next week
2008 September 03
Well, not much happened in the past two days. We've got some new possibilities on the horizon (a few referrals, one of which just might be good, and a former that is letting us meet with them again), but they're just possibilities at the moment. We're working on cleaning out our new ward list (fun! seeing if LA people have moved out), which might turn up somebody to teach (you can only do so much tracting in a week). We're going to get a new set of lists for the other ward this coming Sunday. ...
Short note
2008 September 01
Don't have much time this week. There hasn't been much change, except that yesterday I finally got my bike fixed, thanks to a member who welded the broken piece. Pretty sweet. Our talks went well. This week we get transfer calls. So next week, you can find out where I'm going.
Broken Sunglasses, Girls camp, and Bible Study classes
2008 August 25
Yeah, still not a great week. People are difficult--sometimes they just decide they don't want to meet with you for no good reason (that we know). Sometimes they decide that Sacrament Meeting is "too testimonial", that Sunday School is too basic and doesn't teach the way they want, and decide to go join a Bible Study class at their old church. And they tell you this when you try to catch up with them as they're leaving church to go to said Bible Study class, and you're trying to get an appointment for the ...
Slippage...
2008 August 18
Ok, so this week is probably not the most productive ever. Dropped appointments, we only just barely made the proselyting standard (well, except for lessons, but we haven't hit that ever. A lot of people are stalled, didn't come to church, cancel appointments, our most consistent investigator is going back to Korea until December... so we're working on building our pool (aka the same thing I've been doing since the beginning of June). Some fun stuff... Went on splits with Elder Jorgensen this week. We ended up having dinner in my old complex, and then visited ...
Still warm.
2008 August 11
This has not been too different of a week. Good news first--we had a lot of people at church this week. One of our investigators is going to girls camp. No baptismal dates yet, but we're planning on having a few set this coming week (we've got 2 families that are both really close--so we'll see how things turn out this week). Interesting news: transfers is going to be on Thursday this time around (President McCracken has to go to some meetings), so the actual transfer is 2 days longer than most. We're also going ...
Flat tires, broken bikes, and almost ready people
2008 August 04
Yeah, it's been a weird week. Saying goodbye to an area is difficult. Also, moving to a 2-man apartment is difficult... you really only have one person to talk to all the time (especially when you're junior and don't have to worry about stats calls). Anyways, Elder Hoffman is from Redmond, Washington (yep, there...). He's actually pretty easy to get along with, which is good, since there's quite a bit that's different here. This area is a bit more mid-to-upper class... One of our wards has a bit of Summerlin (if you look at a map ...
Elder Larsen to Lakes North with Elder Hoffman on a bike
2008 July 28
Yep, I'm getting transfered. Not too far--the Lakes Stake (where I'm going) and the Spring Mountain Stake (where I am) border each other, although I'm going to the north end of the stake. My new zone is a lot smaller--only one stake, everything is in Vegas, and around 10 missionaries (I didn't do a very thorough count at Transfer Calls--more about that later). My new companion is a District Leader (yep, I'm going from being a District Leader's companion on bike to being a District Leader's companion on bike), so not much change there. I ...