Goodbye Meridian (week 20)

Hello everyone! It has been another great week here in Michigan.

My mission experience so far has been really interesting. I got to Meridian, was trained here, trained 2 other missionaries, became a social media specialist, and it really felt like I was just taking things one step at a time, and then I look behind me and I have been here in Meridian for almost 5 months! That is insane to me!

That being said, we got transfer calls this week and I am finally leaving Meridian to whitewash Grand Valley 2. I'm very sad to leave the amazing members I've gotten to know and the wonderful people we are teaching. Meridian was such an amazing place to be. But, I am super excited to go to Grand Valley. My companion will be Elder Diaz and we will be in the apartment with another companionship too. We will be really close to Lake Michigan too so it should be super fun! 

On Friday we played a good prank on Elder Sorensen. We convinced him that we were getting transfer calls on Friday instead of Saturday. We got our Distict leaders, our Zone leaders, and the sisters in on it and we even got a fake call. It was so good. 

So that is the big news! We had some good lessons this week and some fun experiences. But next email will be from Grand Valley! So grateful to be here serving my mission. I am so grateful that our Father in Heaven would love us enough to restore the true Church of Jesus Christ on the earth again.

Elder Oswald

A sweet puzzle we did


Some amazing sushi

A handsome squidward drawing that my companions did of me





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