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Hello Familly & Friends, Well ... where to start.. where to start? This week there has been a lot that has gone on! So, sad to say, but Elder Veater got transfered (MAJOR :'( ) I will miss him sooo much! He has been my favorite companion yet.. maybe because we are both a bunch of goof-balls, but hey - whatever it takes right??!! He is going to Riverside to train a new Greenie (another term for ya [new missionary]) So on the Saturday of the end of the transfer we have transfer calls given to the missionaries by President Reeves and by the APs (Assistants to the President). Early in the morning @ 6:30 President gives leadership calls to those who are called as new: APs, OAs, Trainers, Zone Leaders, and District Leaders. and then later at night the AP's give the transfer calls to who is leaving their areas and who is not. ... Well, early in the morning Elder Veater got his call and President said that he was going to be training a missionary in Riverside and then he gave the phone to me and said that President wanted to talk to me... so I nervously got on and was like "HELllooo" haha President said that he wanted me to train a new missionary too here in Lake Elsinore and that he was so proud of what I had been doing... So right now me and Elder Giles (the spanish missionary in the area) are together and are going to pick up are greenies tonight at the mission home... exciting huh! I will let you know what he's like next week and how that all went!Well for me and E. Veaters end days we had a lot of fun saying good bye (for him) to our most favorite people. The Yokshas family is one of our favorite members who help us out soo much! They even made me my favorite desert: Peach Delight! YUM! haha Oh, and on a not so happy note, one of our members died last sunday so we had a funeral for him on Friday. His name was Bro. Seti Mose. He was a really good guy, he had terminal cancer - so he was in a lot of pain, but the cool thing is that he made it out to church and the temple!! wow huh!Well I love you all soo much, I am growing tons and can't wait to tell you about my greenie next week! Wish us luck! Stay safe!Love Elder McBride