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BIG NEWS!

 May 10, 2021

I knew this week would be crazy, but WOW I did not expect it to go the way it did. We found out that when President Holmes gets here, the mission home and mission office will move from Scarsdale to... drum roll please... MANHATTAN! That means that I'M MOVING TO MANHATTAN TOO! AGAIN! To get settled in before the new mission president gets here, I am moving to Manhattan TOMORROW and will spend the rest of my mission there in an area called Inwood (or Washington Heights for those of you who are rusty on your New York geography). I am really excited! Literally EVERYTHING is changing and I am going to have to figure out how to do things in a whole new way.

Speaking of changes, I have a new companion! I'm not supposed to share many details about what goes on during transfer planning, but it was really cool sitting in a room with President Teuscher and seeing how he relies on the spirit to decide where we serve and who we serve with. After much discussion and prayer, Elder Money is the new assistant! He is AWESOME and I'm really excited to be companions! We just love each other so far! It was also super fun getting to go drive in the tesla to the Deli with President.

Most missionaries spend about half of their mission in city areas, and half in car areas. Well, since we are unexpectedly moving to Manhattan, by the time I finish my mission, I will have only served about 12 weeks out of my whole 2 years in a car area. I'm not complaining in the slightest, I love the city. I still have 3 cars though... but I'll live in Manhattan. Pray that I don't get road rage on a daily basis.

We were up till past midnight every day grinding transfer plans and other random projects, and then waking up at 6 AM to have time to finish things because there was just not enough hours in the day to have things done. We brought our laptops to Texas Roadhouse and had a FANTASTIC meal as we finalized the transfer script. It was awesome... we had SO much fun. Also, we had MLC this week, which is a leadership meeting with like 50 other missionaries. We were SO sneaky and hid Elder Money in a top secret location, and nobody suspected a thing. President likes things to remain a secret until transfer calls, so it was pretty fun trying to hide him all week. One time, we had to hide Elder Money in the back of the van behind a mattress for over an hour because we had a few other missionaries IN THE VAN WITH US. They never found him they entire car ride and it was awesome haha.

Sadly, we were so busy with getting ready to move, and planning transfers, that we didn't have much time to teach lessons this week :( Also, I barely have a p-day today because we have to go pick up a big group of new missionaries in the middle of the day and then entertain them until tomorrow haha. We get to stay in a hotel with them in Queens tonight, which will be fun!

OKAY THATS ALL MY NEWS I THINK! There's a million things going on all at once and I'm kinda freaking out but life is good for the most part! Love you all!

- Elder Webster

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