But a couple of days ago i got a little phone call that started shaking the boat a little bit.
I was doing my personal study when my phone starts
ringing, and so i look at it to see that its the AP´s. So i answer the
phone and it was Elder Amone, i think i have talked about hi m in an
email before, he is one of my best friends here in the mission, and
after messing around with him for a few mins he says, ``ok well i have
something serious i need to tell you guys about´´ Well the news that he
had for us is that my companion is having a sobre cambio. (i have no
idea how to say that in english) but that is when suddenly without
warning one missionary gets transferred. And having only been in the
sector for a few days before getting the call, i was pretty freaked out.
And when there are sobre cambios that happen so early in a transfer it
is usually because the spiritual or physical well being of a missionary
is in harm, and they need to get out. But knowing Elder Munoz i knew
that it wasnt him that did something bad haha.
And so the Ap´s tell me who my new companion is going to be told me. And then told me all the travel plans and everything.
After
the phone call it was time to meet up with all of the missionaries in
the zone to watch general conference together. And as we were there we
told all the missionaries that Elder Munoz was leaving. They all were
shocked seeing on how we´ve only been together a few days, but then is
when things changed a little bit. One of the Elders asked me who was
coming. And so i told him the name of my new companion, and immediately
everyone starts freaking out! And literally every single missionary
there all started to talk about what they know about my new companion.
Now i was hoping for a ``Wow, he is awesome, you two are going to see a
ton of miracles there in Pichi´´ but what i actually heard was ``You
have got to be kidding me. I dont even want to be in the same city as
that man´´ And literally every single missionary there started telling each other stories about my new companion, every single one of them were
bad.
As i was sitting listening to all of that garbage, i
got a little mad, to be honest. And so i stood up, and i was about to
call out every single one of those missionaries, i was about to say
``What on Earth are you all doing. You are Representatives of Jesus
Christ. You shouldnt be saying things like that about ANYONE (because
they were saying some pretty bad things) Expectantly another
missionary.´´ And so i take a deep breath to prepare to let all of my Righteous Indignation leave from my mouth calling out all of those missionaries, for talking so badly about a missionary in the middle of a
stake center surrounded by members. And as i opened my mouth one of the
missionaries who i met just a few days ago, must have seen the fire in
my eyes, realized what he was doing was wrong, and so he puts his hand
on my shoulder, and he says ``Elder Crockett, your new companion really
is a nice guy, he really wants to be a missionary, he just needs a
little help, and i know you are just who he needs.´´
After hearing that i calmed down. And i realized
that me calling out all the missionaries in public would be just as bad
for us as what they were already doing. Thankfully the conference was
getting ready to start, and so all the missionaries stopped talking and
went to the room where they wanted to be.
Elder Soto, (the elder who calmed me down) and his
companion Elder Vasquez told me that they knew about the sobre cambio
before i did, because the mission president called Elder Vasquez to tell
him what happened with my new companion (because he was just his zone
leader before transfers the other week, so really when he called just to
yell at Elder Vasquez because apparently its partially his fault for
what happened)
But they told me what president told them. That right now my new
companion was in a really dangerous situation for the work, he made a
couple of mistakes, that made a lot of missionaries, and members mad.
And it was no longer safe for him to be in Punta Arenas, the city he was
in.
After i was informed about what happened. I went to
go sit down to wait for conference, and listen to the MoTab. When i like
to call it a little vision that i had. I pictured President Rappleye at
his desk, getting the news of the need of a change, and i pictured him
kind of stressed out not knowing what to do. When he started to think
about which missionary would be able to help with the situation, and
that two missionaries came to mind. The first one me, and the second one
Elder Goobler (ill talk about him a little further up). And i pictured
President deciding that he was going to choose me to be the new companion even though the circumstances that i was dealing with where
already bad enough haha.
And after i thought about that i remembered what i
told you in my email last week about the mission President having trust
in me, and realized i was right hahahahaha
Later
that day i got a phone call from the Ap´s to give me that last amount
of information that i needed about travel for Elder Munoz, and at the
same time i asked if my companion was going to have to travel alone, and
they told me know, and told me that President is sending another
missionary to go to the new zone with my companion, and that it was
Elder Goobler. hahaha Suddenly my little vision thing i had came arcoss
as something that may have actually happened haha.
Honestly i am really excited for this opportunity i
am having now. (well that i will have starting tomorrow haha thats when Elder Munoz leaves and Elder Marshten comes in) Just a few night ago i
was praying that God would start giving me more experiences that would
help me grow to be become that man that i know he wants me to be. And
then the next morning i find out that i am going to get a whitewashed,
have to find my way around in a city that ive only been in for a couple
of days, and be companions with a missionary that got an entire ward,
and zone of missionaries so mad that it was no longer safe for him to be
in the same city hahahahaha. God answered my pray REEAAL quick hahahaha
Love you all.
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