This week I went on 3 exchanges! Normally we only have 1 a week.

But since this transfer is shorter, we only had 4 of the 5 weeks to do



exchanges and the assistants called and wanted to do an exchange



this weekend as well. So over all, we have 8 exchanges to do in 4 weeks!



It’s crazy. At the beginning of this week we went to Convington to go



on exchanges with the district leader and then the other set of



missionaries in Mandeville, who are in the process of training and



being trained. I had a lot of fun and got to get to know a lot of the missionaries



better. On Tuesday I got to play basketball there and was able to beat



up on all these high school kids. Little did I know but 12 of them were



not members. Convington is this super rich, nice area and is



probably one of the nicest areas in our mission. I saw Tim McGraw's



mansion on the water. It was pretty sweet. Then this weekend I went












on an exchange with one of the assistants, Elder Carter. He is a cool kid and 

I was able to learn a lot.







For those of you who don't know what an exchange is. It's.... When my



companion and I go to another missionary's area and I go with one of



them and Elder Bennett goes with the other. We get to talk, teach and



get to know them. It's a great way to learn new things from different



missionaries and sometimes it's to get a companionship who is not



getting a long away from each other. 







This week we were able to have a lesson with this one family who I



will probably be talking a lot about... the Costas. They have tons of



part members in their family, so we hope to be working with them a



lot. But we were able to use that story that momma sent me about the



guy playing the violin in the DC subway station,and how he was played



Bach and stuff but no one really noticed him... that one. Well we read



it and they loved it. Then I asked who can the people in the story



represent. And we came up with that the guy is Christ and the precious



music is the Atonement. The people passing by is us. Some of us just



walk right on by without even noticing what Christ is constantly doing



for us, and some just stop for a second, throw a few coins and then



keep on going. I loved how only the children wanted to stop and



listen, but then the parents want them to keep going. We all know how



much Christ loves little children and how so much more spiritual they











are then the rest of us. The spririt was super strong and I know that






they all felt it. It was awesome.