This week has gone by pretty quickly.
We got transfer news on Saturday. Elder Briscoe is leaving to Chinle, and I'm staying in Zuni. My new companion will be Elder Simonsen, and all I know about him is his name. I have a had a new companion on every transfer day, maybe this one will stick for at least two!
Elder and Sister Poulsen (the senior missionaries) invited me over for a birthday dinner yesterday, and they invited a member who we hadn't seen for a while and were wondering what happened with her. But she came! We were very happy to see her and she even got me a birthday card. Hopefully she will start coming back to church now.
I was helping an investigator chop some wood on Friday morning, and I had the phone in my pocket. We shared a message with the investigator and left, but when I looked at my phone, I found that I had butt-dialed a lot of people, including the zone leaders, the district leader, and I even pocket dialed the assistants to President Adams! The assistants texted us back saying that they heard a chainsaw in the background and wanted to know if we were okay and that we survived the 'Texas chainsaw massacre'. That was pretty funny.
On Wednesday, while we were doing family history, we had a member named Brother Clawson with us who was struggling. He was having a really hard time on the computer and had no idea what any of the buttons did. He had been messing around with the computer for a while and getting really frustrated, and he even called the family history technician people in Salt Lake to ask them for help. He had the phone on speaker so I could hear Brother Clawson asking weird questions and the technicians trying to make sense of what he needed to get done on family history. I thought that was pretty funny at first, but it made me realize that the older generation of people aren't as tech-savvy as the newer generation of people in the world. They have to learn how to use technology as older adults, they didn't grow up with technology surrounding them. I count myself lucky enough to be able to teach the older generation how to use technology and how many benefits using it can have. It was funny watching Brother Clawson thrusting his finger aggressively at the screen of his smart-phone like he was trying to murder it.
His companion, Elder Briscoe, is on the far right.
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