Dear Family of Bloggers
Things have be going good here. Life has been really busy this past few weeks. We had transfers on Tuesday and we had to do all the preparations for it. On saturday and sunday I put together all the transfer plans for where every missionary was getting transfered too. It took a long time figuring it all out. President Gardner then on Monday morning made all the calls and we gave the missionaries their travel plans and then headed on our way to pick them up that Evening. We have 3 meeting points where everyone gets together. On Monday we went from Lansing to Kalamazoo to Grand Rapids and then back to Lansing. On tuesday we then took all the missionaries going up north to Midland then drove back to Lansing then to Grand Rapids then to Kalamazoo then back to Lansing. It was a long 2 days of driving. That evening we went back to the mission home and served dinner to the departing missionaries. That was fun. Elder Anderson went home. He is one of the missionaries I served around when I was up in Traverse City. He was pretty excited to see his family. Actually only two missionaries went home and both of their names were Elder Anderson. One of them was from Georgetown and was friends with Matt Self. Amy might actually know him. When I met him he looked kind of familiar and I think I had seen him at stake activities or dances or something. I think he is Amys age so he's a little older in the mission. The one I am friends with is actually from Utah though. On Wednesday afternoon we were supposed to pick up nine new missionaries but the flight was dalayed till 12:30am thursday morning because of the conditions. By the way we just got over a foot of snow this morning. So Wednesday and Thursday were both long days. Thursday we did oriantation with all the new missionaries then President introduced them to their trainers. ITs always fun introducing them because they never know what to think. They are always so terrified that its funny. The funnyest part is that I was actually in their shoes at one point. On friday we had a planning meeting with President Gardner for most of the day then he took us out to dinner and got us a hamburger. By the way, he said thank you for all the dried fruit. He said he has never seen so much dried fruit in his life. They bagged it up and take it with them when they do a lot of driving to do. They thought it was a funny present and I said that that was my family for you. Were just a bunch of fruitcakes. He laughed. I like being an assistant but I really miss being out in the field. Its fun working with president Gardner though. When ever we are here in Lansing we go to the church and play b-ball at 6am for our exercise. By the way I am dunking two handed two footed know. I can also dunk one handed jumping off of two feet. All I need is a good ball with some grip on it. Its fun. There are 6 of us that go so we get some good 3 on 3 games. These next couple days will be fun. We Have Zone Leadership Conferance on Monday and Tuesday and to begin all the zone leaders get to play basketball. Its the same thing as we did last transfer when we played football in the snow except its a little to cold know for that so... basketball it is. Well I better get going but thanks for getting my high school transcript for me. Tell Grandad and Grandma hello for me. By the way, I met Adam Brubakers MTC companion. Some of the missionaries in his mtc district came to michigan. I also met a girl when I was serving in Mt. Pleasant who had come to visit from BYU-I and was good friends with Ben and Sam. Its definately a small world. I love you all. Thanks for the letters and everything.
Love, Elder Brubaker
PS. we are supposed to get a total of 16inches today and the wind gust is at 30-40 miles per hour. Its nice that I dont have to be knocking all day in it.
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