Chapter 67: Boomerang Elder (but not Australian)

What a predicament! I’m still a week behind with these. Before the details of 2 weeks ago escape me, I’ll freeze them in bite-sized carbonate here.

“Let me explain. No, there is too much. Let me sum up.”

We’ve begun training Elder Tolman 2.0—otherwise known as Sister Abel—at the GSD! She’ll be filling my place on communications and we’re all blown away by how fast she’s picking up on everything. I’m glad I’ll be leaving the place better than I found it….strictly because I’m being replaced by someone cool 😆.

Speaking of which, we just got not one but TWO new missionaries at the GSD who are joining from my zone. *Emperor Palpetine voice* The Jedi are taking over! Sister Bruening from my half and Elder Pedrosa from the other half have both either begun training or will start shortly. That brings the total number of GSD missionaries from our zone up to seven!

We had a spontaneous graphic design project for the west office building that we had to blitz, so I pulled extra help on the media team and we knocked it out of the park. It was a week later that I learned the unknowable cosmic department entities actually disagreed about whether the fruits of said project should be displayed in the office building, and thus the project would shortly be taken down. Womp womp; A for effort.

Transfers happened! Alas, we lost Elder Chatterley. But, get this. In his place, Elder Siddoway got transferred from Herriman back into South Jordan after just one transfer of being away! Craziness. I’ve never heard of a missionary returning to an area that soon. On the occasions where it happens, it seems to be on opposite ends of someone’s service. I was biking to a leadership council on Thursday when I passed by him and Elder Castro knocking a door, and I just assumed he had become a DL or ZL and was on exchanges. Anyways, it’s been awesome having him back! I hope the area doesn’t get too repetitive. 😜

Saturday was the last day my shift at the Oquirrh Mountain Temple was on a three-shift schedule. The group I was mentoring had only two out of our standard three weeks of training, but most of them would be moving to another shift while I stayed on midday, so we regretfully had to bid each other farewell. But, they’ll do awesome! It’s amazing seeing how quickly new temple workers pick up on things and go from being nervous to confident.

Ok, those are the all the big things from that bygone week!

God be with you,

Elder Tolman

This (which is to say that) week’s zone activity.