Hey everybody!
So first things first, transfers....the dread or
the delight of every missionary. I had
them this past Thursday and a lot of things got switched around in the Spanish program. President is having to prepare
all the areas for mid-April which is when 7
Spanish missionaries all go home at once.
So there are going to be a lot of changes coming next transfers. As for this transfer, turns out President
thinks I'm doing a good job and that I
need to stay for one more transfer. Yep, I'm staying in Little River for yet another, and this transfer is going to
be 7 weeks! I already have 6 months in this ward
and by the time I'm done here, I'll have
spent 8 months here. That's 1/3 of my mission in one area! There's only a handful of people who have spent 5 transfers
in one area so far, and now I'm part of that
group
I also had a pretty cool experience last night
that I'd like to share. As me and Elder
Justesen were in a lesson with a family we were teaching, we started joking around and being super friendly with these
people. We also had the chance to teach them a
little bit of the Plan of Salvation and
how that can affect their family. Anyways, I want to focus more on the conversation we were having before the
lesson. There wasn't anything special to
it, no groundbreaking information that we found
out, nothing crazy, it was just short simple conversation. That got me thinking, "How crazy is it that I am
having a conversation and joking around
with a complete stranger inside of his home with his family?" And it's true, that just doesn't happen
in the world today, where someone you
meet for the first time, you invite them in and have a good conversation with them. It's hard enough just
to get people to talk to their neighbors.
Yet here I am being invited into the homes of complete strangers. It makes me wonder exactly how much power the
position of missionary holds in the eyes of
other people. What would compel them to
invite a complete stranger into their house? Someone they've never met before. It must be something unique
to being a missionary, a servant of the
Lord. And the people recognize this, and they
want it in their homes. I've never been hit so hard at exactly how much power I have just by wearing this plaque on
my chest, that has His name on it, Jesus
Christ. It's something special indeed.
I love my mission and being able to serve the
people here in northern Virginia,
especially in the cities of Springfield, Burke and Lorton. It's practically my second home now I've been here so
long! That is a joke a lot of the members
have with me, they keep asking "Elder Biehn, when are you going to switch your records over to
Little River? You've been here long
enough!" I've come to love these members and I'm thankful for another transfer to be able to serve
them.
Elder Biehn
