We got news that Elder Nonu will be transferred to Turner in the Salem stake. It is really close to Stayton. We were definitely not expecting that, but that is obviously where the Lord has need for him at this time. The last 6 weeks really flew by. My new companion will be Elder Gutierrez. He has been out for about a year I think. I am excited to be staying here in High Desert. I am getting a little nervous about this being my last six weeks though. It just feels weird. Our entire district is getting pretty shaken up. One of the Sisters goes home, another is getting transferred, and then we have 5 other elders getting transferred. So it is going to be pretty crazy. Elder Greenwood, who lived with me in Newberg and was trained by Elder Bills & Patterson, is going to be one of our zone leaders out here now so that will be fun. 

The week was pretty good. I honestly don't remember a lot of what happened. It is really hard for me to remember on Monday what happened the rest of the week. We have one sister we are teaching, Lynne. She is in her 60s. She had a good amount of exposure to the church growing up. She is very prepared to be baptized. She has a really hard health trial, which makes things hard. On Friday, she had a really hard day with other things as well, so after our lesson we gave her a blessing. She showed up to church on Sunday glowing. She was so happy and she did not even have her walker! She loves church and loves the feelings that she is feeling. It has been really amazing to see how far she has been coming. 

This week we were also able to help a sister move. She is not a member, but we have met her a bunch of times since I have been here. When Elder Nonu got here, she finally started opening up and being willing to talk with us! She apparently lived with Tongans in California, one of which being one that Elder Nonu knows. So that really softened her heart. She reached out to us this week because she was moving to Idaho and really needed some help. We were able to contact the Elder's Quorum and they did a great job of showing up to help. Overall, I think that there were 12 of us there. As she pulled in with the Uhaul, she was in tears. Originally, she was supposed to be waiting for us with the Uhaul ready at noon. Well, the owner of the Uhaul had a flat tire, so he was not able to get it to her until near 1215 and she didn't show up until 12:30. As a missionary, this is kind of nerve-ra

cking because you have a bunch of members who are just standing around waiting. But now as I am typing this up, I think that it is important that she was late, because she was able to see this force of people standing there ready to help her when she pulled in. I think that is pretty cool.

We had a good fourth of July. The ward had a breakfast and we had 4 people that we are teaching show up to participate! One miracle on that day was that we went by with Stan to pick up Brother Beaver, a man we are teaching. He lives right next to Crystil and her family. Right when we pulled up, Angelica (Crystil's daughter) texted us saying that she did not have to work. It was just a blessing because we were able to go see if she needed a ride to the breakfast, which she did, and she was able to attend.