Elder Gavin Batman

hoto Album: https://photos.app.goo.gl/QuW5JQQJL6emqhb68 Wow this transfer went by so fast and it's already ending. Transfers are this week and will receive the news on Tuesday for where we're going. I honestly have no idea what's going to happen and I'm excited to see. I hit my 6 months this week as a missionary and it's so surreal and crazy how fast everything's been going. I had the opportunity to go and have an amazing dinner with my great aunt Lynn and it was so cool to finally meet her. The funny part about it is how me and my mom were talking about how there's a bunch of prayers going into me being over in the area near her and then I ended up in Hershey. Since the new boundary changes we have some new recent converts that we've been teaching. One of them is Susan and she is so awesome. We go over to house and she feeds us brownies and we just talk for a while and share a message. She was recently baptized in December and is already one of the m...

Photo Album: https://photos.app.goo.gl/QuW5JQQJL6emqhb68 There's a member that lives in the Lewisberry area and he's a pretty successful businessman and really loves working with the missionaries and helping them figure out their lives and taking them out to go get food. Recently he's been us out to lunch and dinner multiple times spending lots of money and I'm so grateful for him. He gives lots of good advice on how to really evolve yourself and become the man you're meant to be. He hosted a Red Robin birthday party on Monday for when I turned 19 and it was so fun. He has this door to door sales business with solar panels up in Mesquite Nevada and asks a lot of missionaries to go work with them for a few days and he wants me to come. What a guy On Wednesday we had an exchange with the district leader and it was so fun. I was with elder Kennedy up in their area of Hummelstown. It was such an amazing day full of some weird and fun experiences. We really didn'...

Photo Album: https://photos.app.goo.gl/QuW5JQQJL6emqhb68 I turned 19 years old today, crazy, wild. I definitely do not feel 19. We had zone conference this week and it was so fun. It was really cool to see all of the missionaries that I became friends with in my last district and Zone. President Hoffman and his own leaders trainings talked a lot about baptism and how we need to have the baptism mindset and vision, "View everyone in white." Not just baptizing people for a number, but baptizing people because you want to help them receive the blessings that come from it and to gather all of God's children. Baptism is Central to my purpose as a missionary. We also had a guy who gave a great speech on knocking doors and how to influence people. His name is brother Williams and he is a door to door salesman for solar. It was such a great and inspiring speech and he's very good at what he does. Give us some pointers for how to get people's homes and how to get peopl...

Photo Album: https://photos.app.goo.gl/QuW5JQQJL6emqhb68 It's only been a couple days and it's already pday again because our pday was on Wednesday last week. So there's not that much to talk about but it was a pretty fun few days full of lots of cold and miracles. When we came to the area we had a couple friends that the sisters had been teaching, one of them is this cool foreign exchange student that is attending Penn State Harrisburg named Tanish. We've been meeting with him at the Hardee's next to the campus and it's been so fun to teach him these past few days. We have been helping him a lot with some things he's going through that he hadn't really opened up to the other missionaries as much before. He really wants to be baptized but just needs to work out a few things in his life first in order to do so. He doesn't have a car and so we had to get him a ride pretty last minute to church but he made it and he loved it. It was really funny beca...