Bienvenidos!

Hey Family!

The transfer is underway and things are looking up for Wilmington. We just got our new Spanish elders, Elders Mora and Salinas (both from Mexico). It's got to be petty tough for them. They have to share meal calenders with three other companionships and our ward still has yet to feed them. Hopefully when members get to know them, things will pick up for the Spanish elders. With the extra set of elders it makes the administrative work that I have to do an even bigger headache. I feel glued to the phone answering questions, preparing meetings, and doing accounting sessions with the members of the district. Also, apart from the zone leaders, everyone in the district has been out for 7 months or less (two are being trained currently) so I feel like the District Father being so old.

Our ward had two children get baptized this week and while we were helping out with those one of the members came up to us and asked if we could teach her 9-year-old son so he could get baptized too.

Serving here in the summer time makes church interesting. Every week we seem to have a different congregation as people move into the ward and others just come to visit while on vacation. There's a family from the Greenville 1st ward that just moved down here this past week. We had the opportunity to sing "Come, Come, Ye Saints" as a part of a men's quartet and almost everyone was in tears. I think it's been a while since there's been any musical performances in the ward and Elder Packard and I have been trying to use our talents to bless the ward, so it was wonderful to see everything come to fruition on Sunday.

Well, I'm about out of time, talk to y'all next week!

Love,

Elder Perryman 1.0