January 12, 2014- News from Norfolk
Hey family and friends!
Now I'm living in Norfolk, Virginia! It’s pretty
cold here because we are close to the ocean and the humidity here on the East Coast
just seeps right though the layers of clothing that you are wearing. It’s also
been in the 20s during the days this week and it feels pretty cold.
I love my new area. We cover the 5 big cities of
Norfolk, Portsmouth, Chesapeake, Suffolk, and Virginia Beach. There seems to be
many more Latinos living in this area than in my old area of Newport News and
Hampton, so I'm pretty excited about that. We have a super nice apartment and a
really nice gym on site. The gym is
useful to help me work off all the rice, tortillas and beans I eat when we have
dinner appointments. My new companion Elder Bradshaw is really cool, too. He speaks
Spanish very well and he speaks really fast.
Tuesday, we cleaned our apartment like we do every
1st Tuesday of the month. Then, I had to
pack and then say goodbye to all of the branch members and less actives members
and our investigators. It was hard for
me to say goodbye, especially to Jeff and his family, but I know that I'm going
to meet some amazing people in my new area too.
Wednesday, we had the transfer meeting in Portsmouth.
It was pretty crazy because almost all of the new
missionaries coming in to the mission where from Arizona. I saw two of my Chandler friends, Boston Cameron
and Justin Lewis, so that was fun. I
also was able to see my old companion from the Mexico M.T.C., Elder McCall, who
is now paired up with my last companion Elder Morgan in my old area of Newport
News/Hampton.
After the meeting, Elder Bradshaw and I visited
a couple of people, taught a few lessons and ate two dinners. Luckily, both
meals weren't too big so it wasn't really hard to eat both of them. The second
meal we had was really humbling. We ate dinner at a member family's home. Their
house had no insulation, and since it was about 22 degrees outside, it was
freezing in the house, too. None of their lights worked, they just had one lamp
on for lighting in the kitchen. They fed us cold canned beans, cold meat and
tortillas. Even though they had so little they still shared their food with us.
These past couple days I've been able to meet
some of the members and some of our investigators. Elder Bradshaw and I have
seen miracles happen this week, as we have been able to find new people to
teach and have been successful in teaching lessons.
For
example, when we knocked at a Salvadorian lady's
home and she let us in. We sat down and
taught her about the Restoration and she said that she knew what we told her
was true and that she would definitely consider being baptized. That was really
cool to be able to find her and teach her and for her to express that she felt
that what we taught was true.
Well I'm looking forward to this next week!
Love Elder Cannon
Me, Elders Morgan (last companion), McCall (my companion in the MTC and Elder Morgan's new companion), and Bradshaw (new companion)
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Justin Lewis (friend from Chandler) and Me
Me and Boston Cameron (friend from Chandler)
