Well this week was such an exhausting week! Monday we played dodge-ball as a zone. It was a lot of fun and we had a great turn out! Monday night Nina and her family had us over for dinner and to say goodbye. They made a huge pot of their special rice and another huge pot of their special pork. It was delicious! Tuesday we had district meetings and then we picked up another missionary to be in a tripanionship with us.  Tuesday at around 5 pm President Riggs picked me up with all of my bags. Since I was in the southern most part of the mission, it was a long drive. It was nice to be able to talk to him for that long in a one-on-one setting. We went to the mission home and ate some dinner with Sister Riggs. We then we to the office to start working on Transfers. They had a rough idea of where they wanted each missionary to go, but things soon started changing. Elders and Sisters out there, from first hand experience I can tell you that mission presidents fast and pray over EACH missionary on where they should go an who they should go with, and that every transfer is ALWAYS inspired! We would be sitting there looking at the board and President Riggs would get up and move someone saying that he felt prompted to do so. He truly does have the spirit working in him! Elder Norris soon met us at the office and it was nice to see him again. We didn't leave the office until 2:30 am. We woke up at 6:30 and met President and the office to work on transfers again. It was such a long process. The new missionaries flew in at 2 pm that day. 22 new missionaries. We had to rent a uhaul to fit all of their bags. It was amazing to be one of the first people to see the new missionaries get off the plane. They all had dear-in-the-headlights looks on their faces. We drove them around DC for about an hour, then went to the mission home. We ate dinner and had an orientation meeting. That night, we went with President Riggs to the mission office again to pray over which trainers should train the new missionaries. We also had to plan our presentation for transfer meetings. We didn't leave the office till 2:30 again. We woke up at 6:30 the next morning to take the new missionaries to the Stake Center where transfers are held. We had another orientation meeting and gave some direction on things dealing with the mission. We then met with the trainers and paired them up. Transfer meeting was hectic, and everyone was asking me questions. At this point I had zero energy. After transfer meeting we went to the mission home with the departing missionaries  had dinner, and then had a testimony meeting. After that was all said and done we went home at about 10:30. I was dead. I don't think I have ever been more tired in my life. But the work moves on. We were able to work in our area a good amount of time on Friday and over the weekend. We taught a lesson to a lady who was absorbing everything really well! At the end of the lesson we invited her to be baptized when she received her answer that the Book of Mormon is true. Her answer was something I have never heard before on my mission. She told us that she would never be baptized again. She was already baptized by the most influential person in her life (her father) in the Jordan River. It was 9:00 by then and we didn't want to go into a big discussion about authority. So we encouraged her to read and pray about the Book of Mormon.

Church is at 3pm in this area. That's a bummer because Sunday evenings are a GREAT time to work! But we still got a lot done after Church.

Well that is the last 7 days of my life haha...

Love ya!!!

Elder Michael Litchfield