Dinkytown week 18

Well, transfer calls were this morning. President Forbes called me last night and basically threw a curve ball I would not have expected in million years. he told me that there is a shortage of cars in the mission. And he said my area was the only area he could think of right now to take a car from, so he told me i was being switched into a bike area. because of that he told me I would no longer be zone leader and a spanish set of missionaries are going to be the zone leaders. Neither of them have ever been ZLs so i have to train them how to be ZLs. President told me that he was reluctant to do this but when he was on his mission ZLs and APs were supposed to go home in leadership positions, but he said that this mission will be run differently. He doesnt want missionaries at the latter end of their missions in leadership positions if he can help it anymore. Now I am a district leader over just the TCYSA missionaries. One set of chinese elders and two sisters. in total there are 5 new missionaries this transfer in our ward and me. so things will be a little bit crazy the next few weeks. Since we live about 4 miles away from the campus we will be moving into a new apartment tomorrow as well. so yeah, lots of crazy stuff. 

This week was pretty eventful. On wednesday the two chinese elders were Emergency transferred here so they could to pass off lessons with the chinese sisters, who are being transferred. Elder Wall got sent to another area for a few days to be with one of the chinese elder's old companions so president didnt have to shut the area down. the two chinese sisters set up a bunch of lessons to hand of and introduce people to the chinese elders so i sat there and read the scriptures as they taught in chinese. all in all i ended up reading 30 sections of the doctrine and covenants in those lessons! It was pretty sweet. i enjoyed it a lot! 

Last Tuesday we went to the state fair! It was a ton of fun and a lot of good food was consumed. i ate hotdish on a stick (Minnesotans call casseroles hot dish), alligator on a stick, cheese curds (they freak out about these things around here), some super good rootbeer that is locally made, and we found a stand that had unlimited refills of milk when you bought their cup! sooo good. at one point we were joking around and someone asked where the Sisters went. We jokingly guessed that they were in the miracle of life center. Sure enough, 3 minutes later we get a text saying: "elders! Where are you?! you are missing the calf being born!" Typical. So we went and watched a calf get born. it was intense. 

Anyway, im sorry this letter is so lame but since it is a holiday we only get an hour to email since all the libraries are closed. i love you all! have a great week. next weeks letter will be better :)