10/22/12

well i have so crazy news dad!!!! im getting TRANSFERRED TOMORROW! so don't send any cards or anything cause i wont be in Mckinney to get them haha! im going to PLANO Texas! :) my new companion will be Elder Merrill, (one of the missionaries from the MTC with me!) crazy huh! im just starting out and they are putting two greenies together! we must be doing something wrong haha no just kidding! :) but i must say i am truly soooooooooooo sad that im leaving Mckinney.... i have come to love all the people here in the wards and everyone i came in contact with!! i love it here in Mckinney and Elder White has truly been the best companion ever, even though we have only been companions for 2 weeks! we worked like crazy in these past two weeks though! and yesterday we finally saw some of the fruits of our efforts!!! :D yesterday we were talking to an investigator named alex and we taught him the plan of salvation, and at the end of the lesson we asked him that once he knew these things we taught him were true would you be baptized and he said YES! and he wants to go on a mission!!!! it was amazing! my heart was so full of joy at that moment! :) i couldn't of had a better ending to leaving this area than with that experience i had last night! :) and i was talking to elder white afterwards and he told me, Elder Rowland: you can hold you head up high because you are leaving this area 100 times better than how you found it! :) Elder white is getting a new greenie from the MTC tommorrow and will be training him in Mckinney! i am so grateful for the short time i spent with him and all the success we had together here in Mckinney! :) i love this gospel so much! i know without a certainty that this work i am in is good and it is true! it brings everything into perspective! i love it so much! :) now all i gotta do is continue to work hard in my next areas and give it my all as me and elder white have and i know i shall see success for the rest of my mission! :) I love you all so much! thank you for all you do for me and all the love and support you have given me on my endeavors! :) i love Y'all! so much! haha speaking of yall! i bore my testimony in all the wards this Sunday and i said yall and then everyone came up to me afterwards and complemented me on getting the accent so quickly haha ! i love the people here.. im gonna miss them! well i love yall and i hope everyone is have a magnificent week! :) i will let yall know what my address is in plano texas as soon as i can! :)