Picture of old area and new area. The small light blue box is my former area, the giant one is my new area (It's roughly the size of Colorado).



So, this week I found out that I’m getting transferred to Narrogin which is a huge country area about 2 hours southeast of here but it’s still in our district. I’m really excited to be heading there. At the beginning of this week we had exchanges with the elders serving there. They are both American. My new companion will be Elder Richins from Utah. 

Last p-day we had a zone variety show. our district combined with Thornlie and we danced to some Moana music. It was so funny. For the exchanges I was with Elder Richins and we were on fire while tracting. It’s funny because we talked to one guy about his beliefs and he told us he thought we were all one. We asked how he came to that belief and he told us drugs. OK, at least he was honest. 

Anyway, this whole week it has been raining like crazy. On Thursday, we had planned service in the morning and it started raining. So for a couple hours we pulled weeds in the rain. Then after that we missed the bus so we had to wait for another hour at the bus stop. Man I was wet. 

On Friday, we got to go with a recent convert to the temple. It was so cool because I got to help do confirmations. The recent convert really liked the temple too.  

On Sunday, we had the primary program. it was so funny. During one of the songs a kid came up and grabbed the mic and started talking. Then after we had soup Sunday to celebrate it. We also had a huge ward council meeting to discuss missionary work. 

On Monday, we had a public holiday to celebrate the queen’s birthday but I think that they just use her as an excuse to get a day off of work. 

Have a great week,
Elder Nelson



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