Hey everyone,
I got transferred! I left Encinitas, now I'm in Bonita Vista, down in a place called National City. It's so much more ghetto here. Encinitas was so nice haha. I'm in a trio again. This time, I'm finishing the training of another new missionary who came out last transfer, and I'll be District Leading. Exciting stuff, this is only the second time I've been transferred, I forgot how jarring moving to a new area can be haha. I think Elder Jezik is prepared to lead the area after I leave, he's a good kid.
The last week in Encinitas was pretty good. We had a branch Christmas party with a live Mariachi band and tons of good food, tons of tamales. We were able to get some of the people we are teaching to come to the party. They loved it and all the members which was awesome!
We also had a cool experience visiting contacts we had in our Area Book. We knocked on a family's door and they invited us in. We chatted with the grandma and the rest of the family for a while about life and the gospel and then she asked if we wanted to stay for dinner. They fed us and then sent us home with a big bag of food too. Pretty crazy haha!
We took Albert, one of the recent converts in the Encinitas branch, to Chick-Fil-A yesterday because he had never tried it before! He's just a pure soul haha.
Christmas is coming soon! I hope everyone is doing well back home. Let me know if anything exciting is going on in your life or in the world! It'd be awesome to hear from you guys.
Merry Christmas
Elder Pettit
