Goodbye Youngstown

Helloooo

A Very Rushmore Christmas!

Well, it is transfer week and I found out last night that I am being transferred. I am heading back down to the Columbus area! I will be serving in Dublin, Ohio. Dublin and Youngstown are sooooo different. Dublin is a very wealthy area. It will be really interesting but I am excited. I am happy to go back home to Columbus where I belong haha! My new companion will be Elder Smoot who I came out with. This is the first time we have served near each other though. It should be good! The best part about going to Dublin is that I will be going on exchanges to Marysville!!! Elder Smoot and I will be Zone Leaders of the Columbus North Zone and Marysville is still a District Leader area so we will go on exchanges there. I am so excited to see Paul again. And everyone else I love in Marysville. It is going to be awesome. 

This week has been a really good one! We had a big half mission conference on Thursday with the four northern zones. We did a service project where we made blankets, we played a lot of fun games, listened to some people speak, had a christmas dinner and watched an end of the year slideshow. It was really awesome. It has really been a great year. It is crazy that I have lived in Ohio for all of 2018! Time really flies. I have made the best friends ever out here and have had the best experiences. At the conference I got to see my really good friends and two of my past companions! Elder Morse and Elder Madsen. 

Newell K. Whitney Store in Kirkland, Ohio

On Saturday we went up to Kirtland! It was my first time going up there. it was me, Elder McInnes, Tyler & Amanda & their two daughters, Mike (Another recent convert), Sister Fellows (who said she is friends with Zach on facebook for some reason haha) and Brother Thibideau. It was such a cool experience. Kirtland is such a special place. The spirit was definitely present. Being in places where God the Father and Jesus Christ appeared was incredible. I know that Joseph Smith truly was a prophet called by God to restore Christ's church on the earth!! One of Tyler & Amanda's daughters said "I feel really good here" when we first got to the Kirtland Historic Sites. It was great to hear that she was feeling the Spirit!! 

I sang in Sacrament Meeting on Sunday!! It was really fun. I am glad I got to chance to do that. It is always a good time doing that. 

Well, that's all to report on this week! I am excited for the chance to serve in Dublin and I am excited for Christmas! And my P day is on Monday again this next week and will be until transfers! Love you, Mom!

Your son,

Elder Collier