Become the Companion I Want to Serve With

Wow! this was a fast week. I cannot really remember what happened this week so this might be a short letter. It is me and elder jones' last one together. we have transfers tomorrow! Elder jones is going back home to iowa. It has been a good one. thats for sure.

 My area got combined with the other missionaries in our ward. i will be staying next transfer here with one of them. we know each other pretty well because we have been in the same district the past 8 weeks...so We are pretty excited. His name is elder payne. he is one group above me so we are inexperienced...but that is a good thing...it will make us rely on faith more. Today we are just going to be packing and cleaning our apartment...the mission is going to sell it so we have to get everything out.

We helped this family move this week...this is the third time in 8 weeks. They always take us out to eat after, so it is ok. It feels good to give service!

We have been playing basketball once a week with this guy named matt. All the finnish people challenge us to basketball because we are from america...we loose every time. But we have become good friends with this guy named matt. Slowly, we have been talking about our message, what we do as missionaries and what Mormons believe. Every time we see him i can see his interest level go up. on thursday, after he beat us, we were talking and he keeps asking us about what we do and what we believe...and then he asks us if we have church on sundays and if he can come!!! It was way awesome. He is just a normal guy that is seeking for the truth. It taught me a good lesson that there are so many ways that we can do missionary work. Even playing basketball with one of your potential's friends is a good thing to try! 

My goal for this upcoming transfer is to become the companion that I want to serve with. Everything that i want to have in a companion...i am going to start building in me. If you relate it to finding a spouse...if you want to marry this perfect person..then you should start building those same qualities in yourself. It reminds me of a quote by president uchtdorf a while ago in preitshood session when he said : if there ever was a prefect girl to marry..why on earth would she ever choose you? It is so much more important that we build up good qualities in our selves than just looking at others for their faults or weaknesses. 

I love you all! next email will be better.