Hey Mom! 

So I am staying with Elder Riley. Hard to believe how fast this transfer went by. It flew! There are only two people leaving out of our Zone and it is as companionship. It is a double out. The rest are all staying which is cool! I'm excited to see where everyone goes though. Yea it is hard to leave an area always. I've hated leaving every area I've been in.

We had a pretty good week! Found a few new people and I guess our main focus would be this African guy named T. He is super awesome. His wife and daughters are members and he just got here from Africa about 3 weeks ago. We will see what happens with him! We had exchanges this week too. I went to Camden again but with the English elders and also brought Elder Cortes who is a golden here with me. They were both awesome exchanges and I just want to serve in Camden! This guy actually ended up driving us home there. He is a Spanish teacher and knows someone in the Cherry Hill 2nd Ward who is also a teacher. We found him later at night by just street contacting. We walked by him but I just felt strongly we needed to talk to him so we turned around and had a great chat with him. He is pretty set in his ways but the nicest guy. We talked about his daughter as well who is in stage 3 of her cancer. But she is fighting. It is just sad cause he said she is so young and doesn't even really know what is going on. I brought Elder Cotes here to our area and we had an awesome day. Taught 3 lessons that day. It was a pretty good week. Oh! So we also had a huge prank pulled on us with a giant smurf. Basically it went all the way to President to figure out who did it but we finally figured it out. It was some sisters in our zone! So we called our whole zone to see if they did it and all of them said no. But! The Sisters that pulled the prank were the only ones who did not answer the whole day. The craziest thing is is that it ended up in our apartment. They said they left it outside and everything but we figured out how it got in. Some maintenance guys had to come and must have just put it inside because it was out there! It's a long story but I don't feel like writing it all right now haha. But crazy. We are staying healthy thank goodness. We have been doing a good amount of service actually. Nothing consistently every week but things here and there. We chopped a ton of wood this past week and are going back tomorrow to help this couple who are friends of some members in the English Ward. But they are Hispanics haha. Both speak English and Spanish perfectly though. So we will see what happens there if we can start teaching them or not. But everything is going well! I'm excited to stay here for a while and not be gone after just one transfer. 

 

I also gave a talk on missionary in the Spanish one. It went real well I think.

We are actually getting Facebook back this coming transfer so I'll have to do that! Cause those are really great. I could use them.Well I love you mom and I'll talk to you again soon!

Love, 

Elder McArthur 

                                             The Smurf that the sisters left for him and Elder Riley.