Hey yall!

This has been another great week here in Nashville, with a hint of sad news.....I am being transferred!!!!! :( I was so sad to hear that on Friday, our Zone Leaders called and told me to be ready by Tuesday morning and they'd pick us up. I am really grateful to have been able to serve here. I have learned alot from my various companions. I really feel that I have grown as a person, a missionary, and developed better qualities. I have learned alot from those here. There are alot of great examples and a few thatare not so good. I really love a few people in particular for being so faithful. Especially the people we have taught. Sis Trimm is so full of love and I will miss that family a ton. I will absolutely come back to visit! I will very sadly be missing the baptism of the Hills. They are going to be baptized on Dec. 4th. They have been so faithful and they really are commited to live the gospel. Sis Trimm and Sis Hill will be very diligent and great examples to all they meet. I will miss them. They are so much fun too! They were going to ask me to baptize them too!!!! I am glad I can go and do the Lord's will though. I know that great things will come to me in my new area. I will be going just south of Tallahassee in a place called Crawfordville. They haven't been doing so hot down there for a while so I am going to try and get a fire going. I pray I will do what the Lord wants. I have been very blessed to be in the midst of great companions who each have great traits that I have tried to acquire. These various pictures are from the week. We had one heck of an experience this week. Elder Nielson our district leader came down to Nashville to do exchanges with me. That night we were planning and a mouse was running around in the room. We both freaked out screamed like girls and shut the door so it wouldn't get out. hahaha it was so funny. We both tried to make a super awesome plan to catch the thing and we had a empty package box we put over the mouse. Of course first we had to make it run out from under the desk, then we didn't know how we would get it somewhere else. We really didn't want to kill it. I thought I crushed its head and felt so bad. Anyways we put together this awesome plan and it didn't work. We ended up putting it in this plastic container and taking picures with it, then throwing it in the dumpster outside. It was an awesome night. So one of those pictures is the mouse in the container, the other is the Hills, and their dog, the one with the family holding the kboy is the Hills, then the Griners, and awesome family from the ward. I love yall gotta roll! Have a great week!

Elder West