new assignment

Dec. 19, 2011

so...i'm a zone leader now. surprise! the past couple of days have been pretty busy. elder clark and i were doing some planning on saturday night when we got a call from president holmes saying i was leaving monday morning. there's still one more week of this transfer to go, but some missionaries are going home early to get back in time for christmas. so president told me i'd be going to an area to serve as a zone leader and i'd be taking the place of an elder going home early. i had to give up some sleep the past couple of days so i'm a little tired, but it's not too bad. my high school sleeping schedule taught me i can stretch myself pretty hard when it comes to sleep. so elder clark is taking over burton next transfer with whoever his new companion is going to be, but he's going to be in a trio this week with the flint elders covering both areas. pretty crazy.

i'm in the westland zone, i haven't served in this zone before. and i'm in the Plymouth Area with Elder Adamson. He's cool, seems like a solid missionary. i won't be in the ghetto anymore either, it's weird being surrounded by nice neighborhoods and not having to worry about getting mugged. the ward is a couple hundred people i think which will be really different too. i don't really know what the zone leader part is going to be like but it should be fun. some missions only have one missionary in the zone who's the zone leader but in our mission there are two zone leaders who are companions. so it'll help having elder adamson who's been doing this for a few months already. here's my new address:

40305 Plymouth Rd, Apt #204

Plymouth, MI 48170

i just got to the area so i don't know what we're doing for christmas yet, i don't really know anything yet ha. but i'll be calling sometime and i'll pray that it will work out with your guys' schedule. i'm sure we'll make it work though. the weather has been good lately, it hasn't snowed very hard lately. well i've got to go, i'm almost out of time and my email to president didn't work, so i'll have to figure out what to do about that. but have a great week and a merry christmas and i'll talk to you soon :)

love,

elder lamb