Sioux-icide (suicide) City Squad

Holy Moley what a crazy week its been. Sioux City is like the complete opposite of my last area. Its been a blast so far.

So here in our zone, we have 6 out of 16 missionaries that are going home this transfer. Its like all of my mission buddies that are here in the zone. That's why we are the Sioux-icide City squad... because we are all dying.

My mom will be proud because i remembered my camera!

Idk if its a sioux city thing or what but it seems like tons of people have like mannequins and statues and stuff like that. i took a picture of one of the more extreme examples.

Sioux City is the dream though, day one we knocked on this door and a guy opened and was like hey i'm actually a member, I was baptized when i was younger and then my branch got closed... i have two kids that aren't members and I want you to teach them. So we taught them and then they came to church.

Today we are working on a skit that we are doing for zone conference on thursday. we are lip syncing and dancing to the song "mary did you know" by pentatonix. It should be super fun, and ill get to use my jive choreography skillz that i don't really have.

And Elder Horne and I are going to sing a duet for zone conf too.

So our mission president announced that our mission will be getting smart phones. 23 months and we finally made it. I will get to use it for like 2 weeks. 

I made a new friend at the mini golf course.

It's the final countdown

Another week is gone. Now I am in my final transfer. Its crazy how fast things have gone.

So this week is tranfers. And I Am getting transferred again! I'm going to Sioux City Iowa! I'm super duper excited. I know the missionary that will be my companion and we will have a Great time. At the beginning of my mission, my dream was to serve in Sioux city. And I didn't think I would get the chance... but I made It! The promised land.

I'm sad I'm leaving Omaha, I've been here for a good 10 months now... but i'm excited to experience something new. It's still a large city, so i'm sure there will be plenty of things to do. It will be quite opposite of my area now though... we have only rich people and big houses here. Sioux City is not even close to that.

I have started this thing called My Plan... Which is like the MTC for returning home. It's super weird because it just talks about things that I haven't thought about in years haha. Next week it will talk about dating and temple marriage. Interesting topics.

I honestly have no idea what to write anymore. It seems like I do the same thing every week, and its really not that interesting. The next couple weeks will be good because we have a lot going on, but as for now that's pretty much all I got.

Love you all!
Elder Carter

December Already?!

Hi :)

I hope you are as confused as i am about how its already December. I feel like it was just January at the start of the year.

As you (hopefully) know, The church is doing the Light the World Campaign again this year. Service!!! 25 ways in 25 days. Its a good time. Definitely find was to serve those around you!

We went to the Gingerbread Festival this last wednesday! Man i did not know that people could build such constructions out of gingerbread. Someone legit build the pyramids out of gingerbread and chocolate bars. There is a good 100 different houses down there as well. People are much better artists than i am.

The temple trip last week was incredible as well. I have noticeably felt a difference in my own spiritual power just from that one trip. 

It was super packed though. There was a good 40 missionaries in the session.

Last week we had another MLC meeting. It was so good. President Gardner talked with us about Real Intent. I think that so often its super easy to get into a rut/ go through the motions, when it comes to the gospel. Having Real Intent can solve all of the problems, and it really is not a hard thing. It is consciously making the choice to do something and to mean it. But it makes all the difference. 

This week is actually our like one normal week for the rest of my mission.... Next transfer is going to be crazy. Christmas Zone Conference, Christmas, new years, just so much stuff going on. It'll be fun i'm sure.

Love you all!

Elder Carter