Blog of Elder Hamish Macpherson

Hey everyone. It’s Elder Macpherson again, back, and a little late, with another update from the California Sacrmento Mission Office. Did you miss me?

So, these last few weeks have been crazy. So many things are going on, and I don’t think I’ve been driven around this much in a long time. I say this for many reasons, one of which is the fact that I’m writing this post in the passenger seat of a little ’09 Corolla we’re driving down to Lodi, California (that’s another story in itself). Almost never a dull moment I tell ya!

So yeah, even though this is the middle of the transfer period, and thus a generally more relaxed time in the office, we are still busy as bees trying to get things done. Probably the biggest thing on the horizon is the upcoming Day of Unity 2010 that I mentioned in a previous post. We’re running all over the mission taking photos of each zone, for what will eventually be a beautiful framed creation, and a gift to our awesome Mission President and his wife. We borrowed a really nice camera from Cyanne (A Canon Digital Rebel), you know, the one with the big fancy lense and all that jazz. In total we have 12 zones, plus we’ll have a picture of the office (including me and Elder Collett) as well as President and Sister Jardine smack-dab in the middle. I think it’ll look great.

Ahhh… We decided to avoid highways on the trip down, so there’s been lots of fields, animals, and country houses. Quite nice! Now we’re in Lodi. It smells like Lucky Charms here, no joke, there’s a huge General Mills factory on the outskirts! We’re definitely feeling lucky today.

In other news, Cyanne and Ashley are doing great! We’ve worked out Cy’s baptism with the Roseville Mission. She’ll get baptized in our mission, but then will be confirmed (and have her records) in Roseville. We’ll be able to go to that, so I’m very excited! I think the ward in Roseville will be kind of confused though, especially if she keeps coming to our YSA ward. But we’ll see what happens in the end. Ashley is still set for her date as well, we’re seeing her again tomorrow and we’ll probably teach her the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

So a soon-to-be Sacramento missionary called the office today with some questions before he comes out. The office sister couldn’t answer all his questions, so I got on the phone and helped out a little. (“Are hair parts really required?”, and “What sort of bag do I bring?”, etc.) — he’s from Ontario Canada and he’ll be out here in July, along with two other Canadians in his group. Yay for Canadian missionaries.

Now we’re in Stockton, California, (According to some poll it’s one of the worst places to live in the United States – for a lot of reasons) about to drop off the car we’re driving and bring the exchanged one back up to the office. We’re meeting the missionaries at there apartment, in what I hope is a reasonably safe neighborhood.

Well, we just made it out of Stockton, alive and well. Although my GPS was spazzing out and I think we took the longer way home. Oh well, whatever works! (* A few days pass *) Now, here I am, back in the office, finishing this post. Things are still going well. In our weekly office meeting this morning we talked about all the craziness coming in the next few weeks, with Day of Unity and Transfers. President asked Elder Collett if he could think of anyone for his replacement. We’re not really sure at this point. This is weird! I get to nominate my future companion. That’s a first.

Well, till next time. I hope everyone has a great week. The church is true, and this has been the best 15 months of my life!

I’ll catch y’all next week!
 Love,

Elder Macpherson