Our call to Christian was limited to thirty minutes. He could only talk to his parents. Each mission president sets his own rules and his were pretty strict.
His new assignment means that he travels during the week with his companion and they have four zones to direct. Monday through Friday they do divisions with other companionships and on the weekend they are in their own area which they share with another set of elders. They travel by bus and next week they will be in the most remote part of the mission which is a four hour bus ride. His companion is Elder Hillam from Idaho Falls and is one of three AP's. He said that since they are not home during the week, they sleep on mattresses on the floor of the apartment of the elders with whom they work that day.
We learned that because of a short transfer (5 weeks instead of 6) earlier in the year that his release date is now moved up to Nov. 3, one week earlier than expected. This past transfer was unexpected because 6 missionaries went home early. The next regularly scheduled transfer is the 19th of this month.
He sounded really happy and excited about the work that he's doing.
I opened an email from Elder Brewer's (one of Christian's MTC group) mother just a few minutes before we called Christian. They apparently hadn't heard from their son this week and didn't know where to call him. Christian gave us the phone # of the mission home which I forwarded on to the Brewer family. In the interim, they had found a phone # which turned out to be the mission president's home phone. I'll bet that started the ball rolling.
What an eventful Mother's Day!!!
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