Get Me A Banjo And Undo The 13th Amendment

Hey Howdy hey everyone! Coming live from the misnomer of "city" it's Elder McMullin! As always, if you would like to send me any North Carolina tourist sites or a boat, please do and I will happily accept. But, without further ado, here we go!

This week was certainly special for the work. All my hard earned data in Newtown was abandoned, including the 3 people Elder Mills and I found in a night. It also didn't help that we lost Thursday to transfers! After driving the 2 hours up to Richmond, Elder Mills insisted on stopping by his favorite fried chicken place in Virginia- a bold complement for any Southern restaurant. Then we swapped companions, said our goodbyes, and I drove another 3 hours back south to the glorious backwater of Elizabeth city because the office forgot to give Elder Giffiths his TIWI card. E city promises to be an... adventure, as we now cover two buildings, two Sim cards, and found two people all of last transfer. Hoo boy.

Also exciting news has been my recent move to DL for the Elizabeth city Zone. It sounds big and flashy, but it's us and one other companionship covering about 1/3 of North Carolina. The best part is people keep forgetting that I actually exist and/or know how to do my job, as I wasn't invited to the DL intro meeting until it was halfway over, got a call from the APs because our KIs weren't reported (a task Elder Griffiths and I have no idea how to do) and my first ZLC, where I mostly copied what the other DLs were doing in a desperate fake-it-till-you-make-it play. Hopefully things start going better, because this first week has been ROUGH.

To explain the title line, E city is VERY boonies. I don't know how the other Elders skirted around it so much, but no one told me that it was this desolate down here. It's about 20 min driving to get anywhere, and that anywhere is usually a sparsely populated food lion or trailer park. On the plus side, I got to see cotton fields for the first time driving in, and am fully immersed in the southern hospitality of the members who feed us lima bean soup and pork chops from their diner. It feels a bit like living in 1867 with how old everything is, though. We passed a sign advertising the old "colored" school in Currituck, several stars-n-bars, and just a general feeling of decay. But! I am determined come life or death to do my work here and see what we can make happen.

Anyways, hope Yall are having a great week, and I look forward to talking with ya again!

From the Forsaken and forgotten,

Elder McMullin

Photos!

1:Last dinner with Jennifer

2: Elder Mills outside of the good ol' Wisky

3: where art thou Eli Whitney

4: Truer words have never been said.

5: battered, baked, and biscuited. Who could ask for more?

6: look at all those good finding spots!





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