I love this Gospel and all that it has to offer, and I'm excited for this transfer. And as always, God be with you till we meet again.

Family, friends, and acquaintances all around. How much I have loved this transfer and everything that has come and gone with it. So we got the transfer news last night, and that was pretty crazy. But let me start from the beginning from how the week's been...

So Strike last week was pretty dang fun.

It will be great to play pool at my home in a few weeks

Monday for P-Day we went to Strike which was tons of fun, and we did a lot of bowling and laser tag down there. THAT was a ton of fun to do with the District, and we were all just kinda running around and sweating and doing our thing. It was just a ton of fun. Tuesday and Wednesday was basically just running around and teaching a ton of people.

Yep 137... that's my score :)

Thursday was pretty funny because we went to Sister McFadden's place because she has a couple of people she wanted to give a copy of the Book of Mormon to and she needed us to drop them off at her place. Her and her family of four kids (at home) are from America, and they're awesome. When we got to her place she explained to us the people who she plans of giving the copies of the Book of Mormon to, and then randomly she starts giving us all this dating advice! It was so funny, like she was giving us all these tips and stuff for dating, telling us about all the returned missionaries she "helped get married off to". I'll probably stay in contact with her for after the mission hits me hahaha. And mom, you'd love her.

Friday we had exchanges with the missionaries down in Mornington, and I went with Elder Gill and Elder Middis. That was pretty fun, especially since we met some crazy people, that's just always a blessing.

So Saturday comes along, and man that was such a stressful day. We were expecting the transfer news to come along at about 1:00PM or so, and usually it does for the Zone Leaders and we're then able to give it out to the rest of the Zone. We had a few companionship that were completely stressing out over the transfer news, and as the time ticked on we were pretty stressed out too: I already knew I was staying and Elder Theurer already knew he was leaving, but WE WERE STRESSING OUT ABOUT WHO OUR NEW COMPANIONS WERE!!! It was really stressful, and all throughout the day we tried our absolute best to work without letting our minds wander to what we didn't know, but it didn't work very well. We were expecting it to come all throughout the day, and up until bed we were just anticipating that call. But then it never came on Saturday.

It came Sunday night though, and apparently NONE of the Zone Leaders throughout the mission knew anything about transfers earlier than anyone else, so we're not really sure as to why President Vidmar was really hush-hush about it until the last second. But yes, we got our transfer news. Our Zone is staying together for the most part, but we're getting a couple of new missionaries in the Zone, so we've got about 14 missionaries in the Zone again instead of 11 or 12. Good things.

The incredible "retired Elder" Poulson came back for a visit

So as far as Elder Theurer, he's going down to the isle of Patmos (Tasmania) and his companion is going to be Elder Banner. And for me? Well, I'm obviously staying, and my new companion is a missionary named Elder Carrol, and I'll be training him as a new Zone Leader. That'll be interesting, and I'm actually pretty nervous about it. But hey, things are going to be okay: this is my last transfer, and now's the time to buckle down and get things done. I can really feel that we're going to do great missionary work together, Carrol and I. I love this Gospel and all that it has to offer, and I'm excited for this transfer. And as always, God be with you till we meet again.

-Elder Landon Cook

Ponderize: Helaman 3:29-30

Braeside Zone

PS: Our car got robbed on Sunday morning, and now my personal GPS and my credit card (which is the Church’s gas card) to pay for gas is gone, But we called the office and got that all taken care of. Love ya!