Brig's Mission: October 16, 201

Transfer Week

We got this text from an Amazing family in Concord, CA letting us know that Elder Dayton was being transferred this week! This awesome family feeds the missionaries every Sunday night!! We love the Merrils!

MOMMA!!

I am doing well! I'm glad that counts as my present haha you know im pretty bad at thinking of gifts. And sorry for never writing a letter, it's hard to remember to buy stamps and then actually write the thing haha, but I will make a better effort to do that this next transfer! (The present I counted was Sis Merril sending me a video of Brigham singing a duet at their home with a sister missionary!!)

So the fires are insanely big, so i'm told, and I have to assume people are telling the truth because we were seeing smoke throughout the whole day for the past 3 or 4 days! I think I woke up on thursday and went outside to head to sports and said to myself, "wow, it's overcast today" but it was not... So the temperatures have been going down here because of the smoke and schools in the area closed for the weekend, (but missionary work didn't close, it's more important than school work:) but today it's starting to look better so that's good. But I've heard similar stories of people thinking the fire was far enough away (10 miles away) for them to sleep through the night and get out in the morning and then people knoking on their door at like 1 in the morning saying the fire is here and they need to leave now! So the destruction of so many homes is super sad, we are all praying the fires get controlled soon. I'm still not sure what the cause was, if you know I'd be curious to find out.

So San Francisco! I will be in pretty much the same area I started in, thank goodness! Except now its just like the whole northern area, which is the actually city!!! Sister Betty will totally be your best friend again because I live super close to her! just one street down from my old apartment so thats pretty neat!! Ya i'm training another missionary! It's the exact same situation as when I was trained by Elder Galaz! I am shotgun training and the district leader haha, it's gonna be a crazy couple of first weeks! So the transfers will be on Tuesday and new missionaries get here Wednesday, so I'll be sticking with my ZL's over there or something until I pick him up.

Thats so cool you got to go to San Diego again and see Rudd get baptized! And yes I'm pretty sure my return date is Aug 8 but i will have to double check on that. Ya i will need to apply for school huh, maybe I'll ask President about that if I see him tomorrow during transfers. So our last week here in Walnut Creek was super great actually! We were able to find 2 new investigators on Saturday and Sunday!! So that was super fun, we had dropped a lot of our investigators a couple weeks ago and Elder Bird was nervous he would have nothing to do with the new missionary coming in but now we're good:) So the sister I sang with is Hermana Lattin, she and I sang that song in Sacrament meeting that day because we are both leaving and ya she's a really good singer, and they are the ones that had the baptism. Ya I have been saying good bye but there are still some more people I will need to talk to tonight but it's been a pretty good time here but I'm ready to move to my next area and find some more people! I'll send some pictures in just a second! Love you!!!