It's been a while

Alright guys what's up! I know it's been a while since I've written one of these (I wonder why ;) idk I guess iykyk) Anyway, we had transfers a bit ago so I'm in a new area called Canoe Creek and I'm in a trio because one of my companions Elder W is going back to Brazil on Thursday! Definitely stoked for him to get back although I'm not envious because Florida is amazing! I like to call it the rich Brazil because you get the same weather, a lot of the same types of people but you get all the luxuries of being inside the US like ac and cars. But my other companion is Elder M who is also a reassigned missionary and he's supposed to be going to Tahiti so hopefully he'll be able to before he ends his mission. Anyways I love these guys! I'm stoked to be in this area! I love the members here even if we have to share them with a couple sister missionaries who are actually pretty legit themselves since they make us cookies, so who can complain right? I saw something this week that I felt really defined me and it was cookie monster and he said "I'm always eating cookies because if I'm not then I'm just monster" and I felt that on a deep level.

So this week was spent getting to know the area and the members and unfortunately not a whole lot of teaching because we don't have a very big teaching pool but we are working on it and I can already tell God is blessing us with ideas. So give it a few weeks and we will have this area rolling in friends of the church. We also went on splits with our district leader so Elder M and I headed over there to hang with Elder G (who's dope but not the district leader) 

Oh another big fact is that instead of living in an apartment we live with this lady who has a literal mansion and she has this side little house thing that we live in. She is dope and she isn't even a member! Although she is 93 and has several children who are members and one of them married Elder Andersen's daughter! Like the Elder Andersen! So I guess he's teaching her about the gospel whenever he can. 

Also Elder M is super talented musically so he's been teaching me the guitar which I've wanted to learn for forever so I'm working on that. So hopefully I'll be able to play some by the end of the transfer. We also have a hackensack (not sure if that's actually how you spell it cuz it doesn't seem right but it's the little rice beanbag that you kick around) so I've been working to get super good with that. 

Today we are gonna go play basketball and do some bowling which is hype. Elder W and I wanted to go to a trampoline park but Elder M didn't want to so instead we are bowling:( 

Well I love you guys and I know this church is true. There are too many coincidences that I've seen and heard for it to be anything else. I know God is looking out for his children and will do everything he can to bless them. He's watching over you and as Veggie Tales puts it "God is bigger than the boogie man, he's bigger than Godzilla or the monsters on tv! And he's watching over you and me!" Hope you're all doing great and I'm praying for you all.

-Elder Pettingill

-the mansion (it was hard to get the whole thing in one picture)

-dope sunset we had