Elder Marcus Tilghman: November 8, 2017

Well everyone new week, new area, new companion and new opporotuinities! So the change calls came out last week and I am in an area with my companion Elder Lindow, we both are brand new to the area, which also happens to be the smallest sector in the smallest mission in the world! Basically the new area is a ton of super ghetto appartment complexes all squeezed together in an area about the size of my highschool! It is called Los Limoneros.

Well anyway let us get back to the people. Another part of our changes included changes with our last sector Maestranza, they called us and took both me and Elder Atkinson out because the Assitants moved into our ward. Something about it being a good ward and the assitants needing help in their work, our ward being a great ward with the best bishop, blah, blah, blah all I hear was complaints. They are the Assistants, they should have to work hard, but anyway it is what it is. So, they took us both out and all of our investigators were super sad, we passed by to teach them and say goodbye to them and they were all super confused and when we passed by the Haitians they almost made us cry. They did not understand why we were leaving and thought that we hated them, but we had to explain the situation, and then they were all sad did not want us to leave, it was one of the saddest days of my mission. It wa very hard to leave our last area, but it is the will of the Lord, so we will do what he commands us to do.

With the people in our new ward, there are none. My companion and I got here yesterday and in all of the records in the entire area book of the people they were teaching there was one person they had taught three weeks ago and then went on vacation, so basically we have the fabulous opporotunity to start everything over from scratch! I am super excited because it means we are going to talk to every flite, or gangster, we see on the street and teach them about Repentance and Jesus Christ, it is going to be a blast.

Ok so the funny story of the week happened today. So I am now back in a super flite area of the mission, so we are going to be having a ton more funny stories, and today we got on the bus and a teenage kid was rapping trying to get money. Basically all he was doing was making fun of people, and he saw us gringos get on the bus and his eyes lit up. Basically we were the center of a roast in front of the whole bus for about 5 minutes. We just smiled, and then just gave him a card with a picture of Jesus for payment and got off.

Overall it is all good, I am so grateful to be a missionary and to be serving on a mission, there is nothing else that I would rather do at this moment in my life, I know we are called to our area for a purpose. Love you all and have a great week!

Love,

Elder Tilghman

DyC 42:6