Tuesday was a very crazy day indeed. When I got to transfer meetings I learned that I was to be driving my van back to State College. I wasn't too mentally prepared to drive for 2.5 hours after not driving for half a year, but we were on the road before I knew it. TiWi nailed me 7 times for driving too fast, I soon got the hang of it. Man TiWi is no fun at all! It was a decently snowy day and the windshield wipers were awful, also I didn't realize I had my day lights on the whole time. It got pretty late into the evening while I was just using day lights, so that was sketchish. But in the end we made it.
I met Elder Curtis, who is a good guy, no complaints there. I learned about the area which is slow to say the least. We do a lot of tracting and OYMing (Open Your Mouth) out here. There's also another set of Elders, Elder Hummer and Calaway. Both quality gentlemen. Then there's also 7 sister missionaries, now that's different. There's Sisters Wong, Chuah, and Danso they're from the Temple Square so they've all confirmed the tunnels under the temple, etc. then there's Sisters: Jarvis, Thorson, Brown, and Palmer. So there you go, I'm sure plenty of stories of them will come up in the future. Anyways Tuesday night we got the news of the sisters getting in the car accident. Think we all know that story by now, it was humbling to hear, after my own decently sketchy drive an hour north of them. I am very grateful for my safety.
Other highlights of my week would be the OYMing at Penn State. In Pittsburgh the main people I didn't bother talking to were people my age. But now it was students walking by and I'm supposed to get them to stop and talk to me about the Gospel. Pretty nerve racking at first, I started with saying hi, next I added a compliment, then the hard part was asking if I could talk to them for a second. A lot of nopes but I enjoyed my style of talking to them fools. I did have really good conversations with three people. I didn't bother with handing out cards, but I did get to give away 3 copies of the Book of Mormon. So that days' mission was accomplished. I had a jolly good time, I kept myself entertained in the cold snow. Also this place has buses so that's still my favorite.
Saturday night we went to a little place called Stormstown. The tracting right by our place is rough because the people are very wealthy. The part of Stormstown we found wasn't ridiculous. So for like a hour and a half Saturday night we knocked on doors. The people in general were all very kind, they all were concerned for our warmth. It was 9 degrees outside, plus humidity and windchill got us down into the negatives I'm sure of it.
A few did let us in to say our spiel, one was a cool Russian family, another a Witch. Yeah we were in a witches house. There were a few houses that the strange vibes were real. One of which I felt a tensing/strain in my shoulder that I hadn't felt before and it stopped after we left the porch. P.S. No one was home. Though "unsuccessful" it was a good night, we were doing our job, we worked hard, we talked to some really kind people. That's a win in my book. I'm happy that I've been optimistic in this new place, the change of pace is very different but we'll pick it up.
Welcome to State College.
Elder Simmons
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