Monday September 29, 2014

September 29, 2014 First P-day in the field!!

President Gerber and his wife picked us up from the airport! It was like a 40 minute drive to the Mission Home. Hahaha yeah that Leonardi guy came up to me and was like: "I need to take a picture of/with you because your mom is worried sick" hahaha so he did. My companion is from Mesa Arizona! His name is Elder Redd! He's cool. My first area is Brighton! It's the best area apparently so I am pretty lucky/unlucky depending on the way you want to look at it. It's downhill from here! Haha we get fed by members or even investigators sometimes EVERY DAY. I've made a few stir frys for lunch though! All of the families in the Brighton Ward are really cool, and EVERYONE is a super good Member Misisonary. Like these people are pumped up about missionary work. The thing is, Brighton is a pretty wealthy place, people are well off here. So it's really hard to get new investigators. The ward boundaries cover a population of about 60,000 people. So when we go to a member's house, they are usually the only member in the neighborhood since the LDS population is so spread out. I'm at the library right now, and I forgot my journal at the apartment so this letter won't be very detailed... My apartment's address is: 615 Flint Rd Apt #1 Brighton, MI 48116. So if you want to sent me any mail or packages, send it there until I find out the next place I'll be transferred, which will be in like 11 weeks or more. Some cool stuff that happened this week: We went to Sister Ml's home (a pregnant woman whose husband is out of town) and helped her clean her garage and organize stuff, and I found out that she is from Boise! She used to live in Hobble Creek!!! So that's cool. Then like I said before, my comp is from Mesa. There's a kid in the Brighton Ward leaving on his mission in a week and a half, can you guess where he's going......................................... New Mexico, Farmington Mission!! Exactly where Davis went. I told him to prepare for some crazy sights hahahaha. Anyways, the Brighton Ward is really cool! I'm just concerned that I'm being spoiled now and I'll probably be transferred down to the dumps of Detroit after this. Oh well. We have a baptism in our ward this week, his name is Roger B! We aren't baptizing him, his future father in-law is, but he's been coming to church since january so my companion and the whole ward already knows him really well. We have 2 main investigators named Mark and Susan. They are married, and go to a Nazarene Church up here. Mark is much more receptive to our message. He told us that he believes God sent the missionaries to him for a reason, and he feels the Spirit when we're there so he wants to learn more and more every time we are there. Susan is like on the Nazarene "High Council" or whatever so she feels like she belongs there but she listens to our messages and agrees with most of it. They are both coming to the Church on Wednesday and we're giving them a tour of it at 8:00pm and then they are staying for Roger B's baptism at 8:30 so we're hoping that will be a really neat experience for them. We're teaching them the Word of Wisdom next week and the both drink coffee religiously so we'll see would happens there. That's all I've got without my journal, we'll see if I can write again in a little bit. I love you all! Thanks for all of the support.

-Elder Goff