So you're not going to believe who my new companion is- Sister Malloy, from the Valencia ward!!!! Her sister is friends with Megan, and I met them 6 years ago at the Williams' house one summer! I've also seen her around BYU before the mission as well! What a small world.
Sister Pollock goes home in exactly a week. For now, we're a small pack of missionaries trekking around town. Currently our apartment is full of bikes (borrowed another one), and Sister Malloy sleeps on couch cushions on our bedroom floor and lives out of her suitcase, haha. She goes home in two transfers, we're thinking it's likely that I'll be here to "kill her off" as well and keep my reputation going as the companion killer (she would be the 3rd companion I send home).
Columbus apparently has some kind of refugee center for Africans coming from war-torn countries, so that's why we find so many here. It's great though, because they're a lot more receptive to what we have to say. We had a great first lesson with Isaac, a 16 year old from Ghana. We also met Hawa and Nancy, who are neighbors and both were interested in a Book of Mormon.
Terry didn't come to church, but Steven did. We're a little baffled by their fence-sitting, and we have to be very dramatic and bold with Terry. With Steven, it has to be him that makes the choice in the end. You can only tell someone they have to be baptized by the proper priesthood authority so many times!
Things are changing in the mission with President Daines. All the random little rules that were in place with President Nilsen are gone, and it's back to the basics of the white handbook. Also, our P-days go until 6 pm now like the handbook says, instead of ending at 5!!! That kind of just made our life, haha. Things are feeling a lot more lax now for sure, and the crazy emphasis on numbers has been cut back a bit.
Oh, we also got a new investigator named Tony that fell in our lap. His girlfriend was baptized into the Newark ward this past year, and he's interested too but lives in Westerville. Since he has to be baptized in this ward, we get to teach him! Sis. Pollock knows them from her last area, so that's pretty sweet. We had a great lesson with him, and this week we will put him on-date for baptism.
Love,
Sister Petersen
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