This week in the mission is transfers week, meaning everyone has finished up their current 6-week assignment and is potentially moving/being reassigned elsewhere. In the case of Elder Wood's companion, Elder Grunig, they knew in advance he would be leaving, because he's completed his two year mission and is heading home. It is not surprising, then, that Elder Wood is staying in Rosamond, to provide some continuity. His new companion being transferred in is Elder Erickson. He doesn't know a lot about him yet, but will get to know him during transfers on Tuesday.
It sounds like Elder Erickson will be kept busy, because they have 17 messages/meetings scheduled this coming week. That's apparently higher than normal, but a lot of the current members are excited to meet the new missionary, so they'll get a chance to visit with all of them.
They found a couple new people this week, including one man with an unusual story. The missionaries were parked in their car when a man recognized them and came up and knocked on the window. He asked them whether they would pray with him. Apparently he has a drug addiction and has realized he can't fight it on his own, so he's looking for all the help he can get. They of course agreed to pray with him, and also visited him later in the week to check in and share a message with him. He's invited them to come by again, so hopefully they'll be able to continue helping him.
A final small world story, in our meetings here in Portland this week, we had a visiting area authority seventy, Elder Slaughter. After the meeting where he spoke to us, he asked to meet the Wood family - they found us and he told us he is from Bakersfield, and recently he'd visited the Rosamond Ward, where he'd met Elder Wood and Elder Grunig! So it was fun to have him remember that and look for us, and show us a picture he took with the two missionaries (although sadly I didn't think to ask him for a copy).
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| Apparently this graffiti actually says "Doom" but upside-down it looks like "Wood"! |
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| Visiting with a family in the Rosamond ward |
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| Having fun posing on their Preparation Day. |
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| A circle of missionaries |
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| I asked whether they'd had any flooding in their part of California. He sent this picture and let us know technically yes, but it was pretty minimal. |
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| Bird photo - a blue heron |
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