Wooooo so, first i have to apologize for not saying happy
birthday to you mom, even though its 2 weeks late, so happy birthday!
Well the big news is i got transferred to Marion, SC its
right next to Florence and a little ways inland from the beach so its
still the closest I’ve ever gotten to the coast so far hopefully i will
get the chance to be on the coast before i leave but also elder mcpheters got
transferred to north myrtle beach so he is on the beach, me and him just keep
getting moved around together hahaha i love it. My companion is elder cranford
he is from Jacksonville, Florida,
and he talks like a southern boy. He played football and he is a pretty big
guy, he reminds me of grant a little bit except grant doesn’t have red hair, he
has been out a little over 7 months. President is trying something new with us
I’m the district leader but elder cranford is the senior companion, its
different because normally I would be both since I’m DL but i think
this way it puts the load on both elders instead of all on one.
Well marion is a branch with about
60 active members. It’s a big area and its cool cause when you get closer
to the beach it gets really flat which is unlike everywhere else I’ve
been. We have absolutely no hills in our area you can see the road for miles
and its a swamp down here with lots of open fields and lots and lots
of CORN hahaha i haven’t seen so much corn in my life i feel like I’m
in Iowa, it doesn’t feel like most of south Carolina, but its a lot more
humid down here, than in aiken or boiling springs. We have some really cool
members although the average age of the branch is about 63 and we
have like no active youth and one family makes up the primary 4 kids.
President harvey is the branch president and he is awesome he is so motivated
to get things moving. So about the investigators, we have Kathy, she is in her
40s and is getting baptized this saturday the 16th of june she is super cool
we have a couple other really cool people and i think we will have a
couple more baptisms this month: nick, betty (maybe her husband willy, he loved church),
antonio he is 21 and he loves basketball. oh by the way Marion is mostly black
community, so almost everyone we find will be black or super country redneck
hahaha.
so dad you are crazy i need to teach you how to climb barb
wire fences cause you can’t seem to do that right hahaha
mom i did tell the barrys hi for you and told them that you
love their blog, when we had zone conference the same week.
there is a lady in my branch who is 94 and got baptized when
she was 10 by Legrand R Richards when he served in marion,
cool stuff.
grant have fun at efy, make the most of it. I only went once
and wish I had gone more cause it was fun. Also keep getting in the weight
room, the pain pays off when you get to the game and the coaches will start on
varsity the guys who put in more time in the off season and who work 10 time
harder then anyone else if they see you doing that in the weight room and on
the practice field they will favor you during game time, I’m going to change my
favorite prefontaine quote for you
" I don’t play the game to see who’s better, I play to
see who has more gutts" there is a guy in my new area named derrick
weatherford he was an all star defensive back for Tennessee and won them a
national championship in 1966 or 67 i cant remember he could have gone pro but
hurt his knee when he was tackling a guy, he said he got letters from the
cowboys and steelers. Love ya bud, work harder then anyone else!
Wow alli looks so much older now it’s crazy to think about
and crazy to think i have less then 9 months left.
Great note from kody, im glad tanner is reading the letters.
Well that’s all the time i got, so i will have
to go, have a great week
Love Elder Harper
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