I Did Not Know Dominoes Delivered To The Tower Of Babel

Howdy again everybody! Coming live from the hot cocoa capital of the world (or so the sidewalk says) it's Elder McMullin! As always, feel free to send me any countdown calendars or festive chocolates, and I might get to them eventually. But, without further ado, here we go!

This week was kind of buns for work. It didn't help that we had a Portsmouth exchange and Thanksgiving, but still. We found two new people, had a couple come to sacrament, but also a couple of ghosters and several no shows. Only adding to the frustration is that December is falling, and southerners tend to retreat to their dens, hibernate, and get very uninterested when you mention leaving the house. They're kind of like bears, but infinitely less cute and infinitely more likely to wield a glock. But! If we keep trying and trying and TRYING, the Lord will make our work worthwhile and we WILL find sucess. God, as Elijah said, will never sleep and never be "somewhere else", so I know that He is in Elizabeth City and he is preparing folks- we just have to find em.
    In other news, transfers! We all gather our favorite beverages and get ready to kiss our loved ones goodbye on Saturday morning as the ZLs start the group call. They decide that we have to play a "scavenger hunt" and whomever grabs the item they say first, gets their news. This is great, except we live in a 3 bed/2 bath house and Nanesmond lives in a shoebox. So, we naturally got our news last. I will be... STAYING! much to the surprise of no one. However, Elder Griffiths will also be staying, meaning I get to enjoy a Christmas with a friendly face. The District will also all be staying, meaning a very boring transfer day but an exciting next few weeks!
  To explain the title line, we unfortunately had to visit a dot way out in the sticks named Patricia. Supposedly, she put in a referral to visit with us, but she did live 30 minutes away. Steeling ourselves and taking no thought for emissions, we headed out there. Of course, she did not answer, but we left a message and a BOM because we are not going back soon. Feeling accomplished, we put Dominoes into the GPS, where a member has ordered a pizza for us. He's kind of strange, so he put it under the Brother of Jared's name. As we drive, we laugh and chat, until the conversation dies at 30 minutes. Then, we check the GPS and realize that we have been going the exact wrong direction to Ahoskie, NC. Recalculating, we got a 50+ minute drive ahead of us. All of this meant that we busted in to dominoes at 6:15, in sweaty pros, asking the workers for "Mahonri Moriancumers pizza?" Despite all this, the pizza was still warm and delightful.

Anyways, hope yall have a great rest of your week, and see yall soon!

From your favorite Journeying Jaredite,

Elder McMuffin

Photos!

1: two countdown calendars, two mega nerds. What more could you want?

2: My Terminator model. Arnold's not looking great right now.

3: WAFFLE HOUSE

4: *revolutionary war music starts playing*

5: it was a long exchange, ok?




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