Week 4 - Welcome to Guam

...        This week began on a plane from Salt Lake to Denver, Denver to Honolulu, and Honolulu to Guam. We left Monday at 3 am Utah time and got there Tuesday 3 am Utah time. After meeting our mission president and his wife (President and Sister Hicks) we were told the next day we would meet our new companions and receive a 2nd mission call. Wednesday night I opened my call, which told me I would be serving in the Harmon 1 area, speaking and teaching in English, while learning Chuukese, and every transfer there is a chance that the missionaries get moved around from island to island. So eventually I could be on Chuuk, another area of Guam or the islands.
           The work here is exhausting, fulfilling, and sometimes hard. Teaching families and people is the easiest part. Finding them is a different story. For example, my friend Elder Snow and I were dropped off by our companions Elder McDaniel and Elder Kichiro (since they are zone leaders) and we were to go find people in this large apartment building. We managed to knock 105 doors, 15 of those answered their doors, and only 1 of all of them was really interested in our message. Reminds me of going after the lost sheep, and leaving behind ninety-nine to find one. The people who have really taught me the most out here are those we teach.
          One Brother was baptized in December, he's 45 and he presses forward with one of the coolest testimonies I have ever heard. We meet with him every day, and some days he comes with Elder McDaniel and me to teach. He wants to receive the Priesthood now, and more than anything just wants to continue growing his faith in the Gospel. He knows it's true. He lives and loves it. I am so excited to hear from him when he gets the chance to enter the Temple for the first time. President and sister Hicks told us how the work here is progressing. People are ready to receive this message and the temple will be finished by Christmas of next year. Members are so excited to finally have the opportunity to do temple work here.
          I love these people and despite the little things, such as cockroaches in the apartment, trash all over the streets and in the jungle, and feeling hungry all the time, there is no other place the Lord would want me to be right now. I will continue to work hard, learn what I can, and have a positive attitude even when success is hard to find.
Love y'all
Elder George

Welcome to the Micronesia Guam Mission! After 24 hours travelling
we were greeted by the New Guam Mission President. 

https://www.facebook.com/micronesiaguam.mission.9/videos/118854756075818/

Our mission president and his wife - President and Sister Hicks
they arrived just a couple of weeks before me.

The next day we would meet our new companions 
and receive a 2nd mission call

https://www.facebook.com/micronesiaguam.mission.9/videos/119300022697958/

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10219724917290358&set=gm.2602214133130935&type=3&theater

Elder McDaniel is a Zone Leader and my new Companion. 
I will be serving in the Harmon 1 area, on Guam - speaking 
and teaching in English, while learning Chuukese

Like the last supper before the other elders from 
my MTC district leave with their new companions.

Elder Snow and I were dropped off to go find
people to teach in this large apartment building. 

Here is the apartment where Elder Snow and I managed to knock 105 doors

Its a jungle out here, but there is no other place the Lord would 
want me to be right now.  I will continue to work hard, learn what I can,
and have a positive attitude even when success is hard to find.