Is this your excuse for swimming? -Bishop

"Is this your excuse for swimming?" Bishop

August 28,2018

This week our baptismal pump is still broken, so my companion and I took an hour out of our day to bail the font.  It went a lot faster than we were expecting.  That was fun!  My back was a bit sore afterwards. It was a great work out.  The subject line is what our Bishop asked us whilst we were bailing  Any who I know the reason you read these is for the stories, so here they are.

Story Number 1: Pass along cards can work.

The other day my companion asked me if i had ever had someone call us because of a Pass along card.  I had to think, and out of twenty one months on my mission; I had never ever had someone call because of a pass along card.  Then last Monday we got a text message at four thirty in the morning from a gentleman that said "he needed Christ in his life."  We made an appointment for the next day, when we were actually awake.  When we went there we asked how he found our number.  He just pointed to a pass along card.  When we looked on the card, guess whose hand writing it was! It was mine!  I felt super cool! That was awesome, then we had a great lesson with him.  Unfortunately he has vanished lately.

Story Number 2: You never know what your news might be.

This last Saturday was transfer news, which was given to me by my Zone Leaders.  Now from my time in Uitenhage I have had some interesting plot twists during transfer news.  This was one!  Mid-training my new companion they are transferring me to a new Area!  IT came as quite a surprise, a real Shocker! The other day as I was contemplating if I felt that I had done everything I could have done in this area.  I looked back at the people I had taught, the friendships and the relationships I had made here, and felt that it was enough. I will miss my companion. I have really loved serving in this ward though and I will miss it, but I am very excited for my next area.  Which is Queenstown!  Sometimes there is Snow there, I hope I can see some. I will be a Zone leader in Queenstown which is really the only area of the mission I have not seen.  I am very excited about that.  

Well I love you all and have a wonderful week.

Elder Tucker