Elder Gavin Milius: TRANSFERS AKA NEW COMP

What up y'all, it's ya boi elder milius....

This week has been crazy, lots of change is happening, I am writing this super late so I might not keep it long but lots of stuff happened, I'm doing great! Each day I wake up is a new day, sometimes we do the same stuff but sometimes something spicy happens and that's the fun of being a missionary!

Tuesday was pretty fun, we had basically an exit meeting for all the people who were coming out of training. That would be me, yes I finally finished training and am now a normal missionary, nobody can call me a greenie or anything, I am a pro now. Jkjk, but after that we had some service then came home, deep cleaned our apartment, had dinner and got to go to a lesson with a girl we are teaching. She just got back from a cruise so we were super hyped to hear from her and she was super hyped to meet with us so she is super super solid. We had an awesome lessons and set up a time to talk again. after that my comp went to go say bye to a member we got really close too, talked for a good hour and a half and finally said our goodbyes, well he did at least lol.

Wednesday was transfer day!!!!!!!!! We went out to eat breakfast with some elders and a guy who just likes missionaries. Then went and met our Zone Leaders in Richmond and had lunch, then we went to the Mission office and basically met our companions. My new comp is named Elder Naylor and he's pretty sick!! He is leaving for home in what is now 37 days but he isnt a pile and definelty finds joy in doing the work even when he's going home in a month. But things have been great so far with him and I'm looking forward to the transfer ahead. After we met our comps we basically watched all the trainees meet their trainers then left back for our home. We had a 2 hour car ride both there and back so me and my comp got to know eachother a little bit. After we got back we had a member meal that we got to go to and they made delicious dinner, it was soooooo gooood and definelyy filled us up.

Thursday and Friday were pretty chill, we had some lessons, weekly planning, knocked some doors, made some calls, nothing too crazy. We did meet this one lady who accepted a copy of the Book Of Mormon on her door step which was super cool. Friday was actually really fun, we had a baptism for a kid in our ward who turned 8 and so we were able to go to that and support him in that. It's so cool to see how awesome it is to see someone make those covenants with God and recieve that gift of the holy ghost. This truly is the true church and its so special to be part of this work to bring this gospel to all.

New years eve was sweet!!!! We stopped doing missionary work after 4:30 so we decided to go hang with some elders, we then went out to go get pizza but when we got there they said we woukd have to wait an hour so we said heck no! We then went to KFC and when we got there she said it would be an hour!! So one of the elders in my district goes "So yall don't have chicken!!" As to which she said well we have sandwiches, so he said cool well take 4 of those lol. Then after that we went back, talked and played games. We then left their apartment at like 9:30 so we kinda got home late 💀 but it was our district leader who we were hanging out with so if it's OK with him then all is well lol.

Sunday was also chill, we had church then went to have dinner with a member then went home and made a butt ton of calls and then went to our ward missio leaders house and ate more food and might have glanced/watched a little of maverick lolol. We then came home and made more calls then went to bed cause we were tired lol.

But that's pretty much my entire week, can't believe I have a new comp, it feels weird to be the lead of the area, it's definitely been a lot of change and getting used to but I'm super happy and super excited for what lays ahead. Hopefully y’all had an awesome new years and I will talk to y’all in the next one!!