Tuesday I headed to Pittsburgh for transfers, we left early so we could stop at the Peppis in Point Breeze. It was amazing get the #7 add bacon. It will never disappoint. We drove through a few places, past the apartment, gay bar, and Roger who was still sitting in his regular spot. If I had known I would be back I would've visited some people as well. Got to say hello and see you later to some friends at transfers so that a was a joy. Before I knew it I was crammed in a truck pulling a trailer.
I got to make some new friends on the way there, we had some good times on the road. The funniest was when we pulled off to try to find gas. We drove past some Amish houses going like 45 ish. We go around a bend and we all see 3 big, white, majestic Geese. The Geese, probably being pets, were too cocky to get up and move. We got closer and closer and we couldn't swerve because we were pulling a trailer. We all went silent in wonder of what was about to go down. The geese finally got the picture that we weren't avoiding them when they only had a few feet left of life. We saw them start to try to waddle away, looking terrified, as the went under the truck! THUD THUD THUD all at once. You could feel them tumbling under the floor of the truck. And the trailer dragging behind was the exclamation point in the phrase, "FINISH HIM!" The geese were very dead, Elder Prizadeh said to have seen an explosion of feathers behind us. As soon as we all realized he did actually flatten those big birds we laughed for at least 20 minutes straight. We never even found a gas station so the whole detour was to induce the triple homicide. Got to my apartment by the end of the day.
Wednesday we went to the DC temple and did baptisms with the Halls, a returning member. Bro hall is funny, he's got a lot of misconstrued concepts thanks to history channel, but that's alright. Wednesday night we get a text from the APs asking if they can sleep over with us, we had a good time with them, played some good final rounds of pirates dice.
Thursday morning we get to our church, and both the Chambersburg and Lancaster zones were there. We didn't know what was going on before hand we just knew it was a meeting. Everyone was nervous, President Johnson started with telling us how he and his wife moved all around the country knowing it was God's will each time. Sis Johnson talked about different examples of groups of people leaving places from the scriptures. The hints were getting obvious. Elder Davis and I got a map of the Maryland Baltimore mission and we felt strongly that we were going to be right. President Johnson got back up again. He showed us a call packet, then the letter, then he took the words, " your assignment may be modified according to the needs of you mission president." With that slide he said, "so now it's getting a little clearer." Then he said, "Now let's make it real clear here." And switches the slide to the big blue logo of the Maryland Baltimore Mission. Bomb dropped. Now we had a good 1/2 hour of answering questions. Some people were crying, were they all sisters? Maybe. I wasn't I was more excited. What this means is that all of us missionaries will no longer go to Pennsylvania after these areas but somewhere in the Maryland Baltimore Mission. I'm glad to be with a good bunch of missionaries who I'm good friends with! I am bummed to be leaving a whole bunch of friends. I've made some awesome friends. I'll get to feel like a brand new missionary not knowing anybody so that's fun too. But it'll be a fun change! Since thursday we've all been in a weird limbo. It hasn't felt normal at all. But Sunday finally came and I had a good time. The members here are pretty awesome, it's a big ward. And a family we had dinner with brought a friend who is interested in the church, to church. Members doing missionary work is the best way. So I'm happy to be in a place where they do it!
New Maryland Baltimore Mission boundaries which now include Chambersburg and Lancaster stakes
There's a chance the new mission president will want to integrate the other missionaries as soon as possible so I may only be in Lititz for a short time. But there's a slim chance of that. The more realistic option is have is stay together for a while then send Elder Davis down to Maryland. But who knows! It's obvious that I'll never be able to predict what's going to happen to me in the mission. It's been the craziest week of my mission and maybe even my life. Never would've guessed that my last vacation that took me to Baltimore before my mission, would be the same city where I'd get called to be a missionary in.
Elder Simmons
Our group of missionaries that will now be part of the Maryland Baltimore mission.
Elder Ord has volunteered to hug everyone for me.
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