Week 105: June 25, 2018

I want to express my gratitude for each of you for following along throughout this amazing journey. I truly have felt your love and support during my mission.

I got to see my friend, Cody Wong, this Sunday. He's been working here for the summer and he attended our ward on Sunday! Really cool to have been able to catch up with him!

This past week, I have truly been blessed to witness so many miracles that the Lord had in store for us. Firstly, our investigator, Philip, came to church again. We had two baptisms this past week in our district. What a blessing to witness these children of God make this covenant with Him. Philip was able to attend one of the services and truly felt the spirit. He says that getting baptized is something he wants to do! Secondly, we got a call from a young man named Jimmy. He had been coming to church for a while but had declined taking the discussions. We decided to really get to know him and become his friend. Over the course of 6 months of being here and many years of being fellow shipped, this week marked a significant change. He decided to pray on his own about the church and what God wanted him to do. He called us out of the blue and said, "Elders, I want to take the discussions and get baptized!" After we picked our jaws off of the floor, we expressed our excitement for him and told him we would do whatever we could to help him along that journey. Thirdly, we were able to meet with Teresa, another friend who has been coming to church but declined the lessons. She asked if she could have us over for dinner and a lesson! We were able and happy to do so. I am truly grateful for all of these miracles! Even though we hadn't seen such intense miracles all day everyday, we worked hard and recognized the little miracles and blessings each day and God handled the rest.

I truly love these people. I will miss them all. The Bay Area has truly captured my heart and I hope to have left a lasting impact here with those that I've had the opportunity to meet. I love the Lord. I have come to know Him much better and apply the gospel more and more in my life. I'm grateful for the time I've had to lose myself and serve others. I look forward to seeing you all soon!

-Elder Kaitoku 

Week 95: April 30, 2018

So, if you've been following the Chronicles of Elder Kaitoku for a while now, you'll remember that I went through a little phase where apparently, I couldn't ride a bike. Now, you may be thinking to yourself, "Well, the bar couldn't get any lower...could it?" WELL. This week, we learned the answer to that. Apparently, I can't even run properly. While going on a morning run with my companion, I ran full speed into a log that had been propped over the guardrail and was covered with leaves so I couldn't see it. It stopped my forward progression quite effectively, bringing me to a full stop. Not only that, but it knocked me off my feet. Now you might be thinking: "Well, at least it was early in the morning and no one else was there to see it, right?" Well, if that was your thinking, you would be wrong. There was a LONG line of cars that were there to witness this event. My USELESS COMPANION just laughed at me. Maybe I'll try crawling from now on. 

Other than that, this has been a great week. We found a new investigator named Ruth. She had previously met with missionaries back in Oregon and when she moved here, they referred her to us. She is pretty open to meeting with us and learning more about the gospel. She also lives in the same place as a member of the ward named Chris! He has been a great friend to her and now answers her questions about the gospel and helps her to know more about its importance and how it has changed his life. 

We got to sing again at the Visitor's Center which was a great experience. 

It's been a great week and I hope you all had a great week as well! 

Until next week,

-Elder Kaitoku

Week 94: April 23, 2018

Hey Everybody!

Sorry I wasn't able to email last week. Just a quick review: I got a new companion...again. His name is Elder Kwan and he is from Philadelphia! We've been doing so well together! 

We were able to set two baptismal dates since we last spoke. The first is with Patricia. She has considered herself a member of the church for most of her life. She just hasn't been baptized yet. We can help with that :) She is progressing really well. Even though, due to health reasons, she isn't able to get to church a lot, she watches BYU devotionals and other similar programs at home. She watches reruns of General Conference and is awesome! She will be baptized on June 23rd. The second baptismal date is with Taiman'e Pisimata. She is a 9 year old girl in a Part-Member-Family. They were able to come to church a week ago and that was awesome! She and her younger sister Talia really enjoy primary. 

Other than that, it's been a really awesome week! We got a new car! Like, brand spankin' new. 2018 Corolla. We are the envy of the district hahaha. 

Also, we had a mini missionary named Jarom this past week. He did great! We had a good time together. Hopefully we haven't scared him off from serving a mission.

Oh yeah I also got mauled by a vicious dog! 

That's kind of all for this week. Until next week!

Week 92: April 9, 2018

Hello Everybody,

We had transfers this past week and my new companion is Elder Tackett! We served in the same district when we were in Richmond so it was great to reunite with him and finally be companions. He was called Spanish speaking and so the range of people that we are able to talk to now has greatly broadened. Like my last companion, Elder Klunker, this is the first time Elder Tackett has been in the English program. We'll see how he likes it.

We were finally able to make contact with our investigator, Patricia. She wanted to get baptized and has a very firm belief in the church. Due to health circumstances, it is difficult for her to get to church. Happily, she watches devotionals and other things at home to still be spiritually edified. 

Although I wasn't able to watch it, I definitely heard a lot about Merrie Monarch this past weekend from one of the families that we are meeting with regularly. The entire family is very involved in Polynesian dances and so the mom told us all about Merrie Monarch.

On another note, we got food poisoning this past weekend. We might have gotten some chicken that was a bit on the "medium rare" side. Personally, I like my chicken "well done". My companion and I spent all Saturday night awake and puking our guts out. Whoo. Fortunately, we are feeling a lot better today.

I hope that all of you have had a great week as well! Love you all!

-Elder Kaitoku

PS here's a few pictures from the hike last week!

Week 91: April 2, 2018

This past week was great, we were able to add two new investigators: Jesse and his wife Sloane. Jesse is a very humble and kind guy. 

Elder Klunker is getting transferred to back to the Tongan program. I am staying here with Elder Tackett. We were in the same district back in Richmond! It'll be fun.

Also, we saw two rattlesnakes today on a hike and the first one scared me half to death. We practically walked right on top of it when we heard a hiss and rattle. First snake I've seen in the wild! And it was a huge rattlesnake. Then we saw another one a few minutes later. It was wild.

I love and sustain the apostles and the prophet. I am so thankful and grateful for the opportunity that we have to hear their words and teachings. I hope you all enjoyed it as much as I did!

Sorry for the short email! Until next week!

Week 90: March 26, 2018

Hey everybody,

So for those of you who don't know yet, our mission is now officially a technological mission. We got smartphones and facebook and so you know what that means! Plenty of selfies! Just kidding. it's been great to see how the technology can help us to enhance our experience as missionaries and to help us stay connected with recent converts, investigators, and members from previous areas. 

It's been a pretty standard week for us out here in the 'creek. 

Also, on a  personal note I've lost 20 lb on the mission. So that's been pretty exciting!

I have come to really love my mission love the people and the place. I'm looking forward to another great week with my great companion. He may be going back to the Tongan program next transfer so we will find out this week!

Thank you for all of your love and support. Until next week!

 

Week 88: March 12, 2018

Hey everybody, 

This week was pretty great. We had dinner with a couple that had just moved into our ward from the Tongan ward nearby. The husband, like many other poly's is rather "large in stature" and he told us this hilarious story about the time they were visiting Hawaii during the Pro Bowl. They were waiting in the hotel lobby, trying to check in. His wife was in line for the receptionist desk and he was sitting outside with his sunglasses on and a towel over his head. Suddenly, a lady walked up to the wife and asked, pointing to the husband, "Is he ready to go?" She was confused for a second but said, "Yes". Before they knew what was happening, they were being escorted on to a bus. Suddenly, they were being given lanyards. As they looked around, they realized that the bus was full of NFL Pro Bowl players and their families. They got off at the hotel where the players were staying. They were then treated to lines and lines of all you could eat food waiting for them. They ate and ate and talked to a few players. They weren't found out until everyone was leaving. Everyone else was driving away in the latest and greatest model of sports car. They walked. The security guard saw this and realized what had happened and could not stop laughing as they walked down the road and back to their actual hotel.

We got this awesome new family that we've been able to teach. Barry and his two kids Khan and Akhane. They were found by the sisters and they referred them to us! We shared this great miracle with our bishop in that ward. He began to inquire so as to the whereabouts of this family. As we went into more and mo

re detail, he said, "Elders, I hate to put a damper on things, but I believe they live outside of our area." Turns out, they live just across the street outside of our area. It was sad but that's okay because we know that they'll be taught by good elders. Just not great elders. hahahaha just kidding. Those elders are great! 

This week, we went on a hike as a zone and that was a lot of fun. Pictures incoming. 

Anyways, hope you guys had a great week! Until next week

-Elder Kaitoku

Week 86: February 26, 2018

Hey everyone!

My new companion, Elder Klunker is super awesome! He's been serving in the Tongan program his whole mission and this is his first English ward/area. We joked together that something more and more Poly happened each day and that by the end of the transfer, we'd both be speaking Tongan.  First, we had dinner with the Burr family. They aren't from Hawaii but they told me that they had a love for the Hawaiian music. They knew a lot of the classics. I was thoroughly surprised. They said that their daughter had an ukulele that we could use should we ever need one for, say, a musical number. More on that later.  We had a great lesson with the Pisimata family. We got to have dinner with them. They fed us tons of Samoan food and it was so ONO. It's been so long since I'd had kalo. They are doing well. We are set to have family home evenings with them on a weekly basis to help their whole family to come closer to Christ. In the middle of that dinner, we got a text from our bishop. He asked if I could do a quick musical number for a funeral the next morning. 

Remember that ukulele I mentioned earlier? We gave them a quick call and they said we could come by and pick it up. I sang "He Will Carry You" by the Mana'o Company. It was a lot of fun. Plus, I got to teach my comp some ukulele before we return it.  Other than that, it's been a fantastic week. We have a lot of potentials that we are working with and hoping that we can get them to church and progressing.

Hope you guys are all having a great week!
Until next week,
-Elder Kaitoku

Week 85: February 12, 2018

This week, we really focused on our finding efforts. We had been going through our area book with our former investigators and one of them was part of a part member family. Later on, we asked our Ward Mission Leader about some PMFs that we could stop by and this family was on the list. We had been trying to make contact with them for a very long time and this past week, we were finally able to do so. The guy is a member and is originally from Hawai'i. We had a lot that we had in common and he mentioned that it's easier for him to really connect with someone from home because we had similar upbringings. Additionally, they both grew up dancing! He danced at the Polynesian Cultural Center for a while and she grew up in a halau. The kids all dance hula, Tahitian, Samoan, and others! We really got to connect well on that! We had a great lesson in which we were able to establish expectations with them and see what they wanted out of meeting with us. He wants his girlfriend to eventually be baptized. She had been meeting with missionaries for a very long time and hadn't found the answers that she was looking for when it came to the gospel. They have 3 children together, ages 9, 7, and 1. We are hoping to help him come back to church, help their children to have the gospel in their childhood, and help her to understand the gospel better. We want each of them to Come Unto Christ. This was a pretty exciting miracle for us because it had been a long time since we'd been able to find a new investigator that seemed very promising. We, and the WML are excited for this family as there is a lot of potential for the gospel to help them in their lives.

Additionally, if you can recall, a few months ago, Elder Kaitoku got into a car wreck whilst on exchanges with his zone leader, a missionary who will remain unnamed. Now, after being transferred to the Walnut Creek area, it has come to my attention that the member that we crashed into, lives somewhere here. I had somewhat forgot about that until dinner one night. I was talking to a member and we were talking about our respective mission experiences. The subject of cars and driving came up. I said, "I've only gotten into one crash" and at the same time, the member said, "I got rear ended by missionaries once" There was a slight pause and suddenly, it all came flooding back. I wondered why he looked familiar. I had finally met him! We had a good chuckle about that. 


Anyways, hope you guys are all doing well! Until next week!-Elder Kaitoku

Week 83: January 29, 2018

Hey Everybody!

It's been a super exciting week this week! Things have been pretty slow in this area for quite some time. We decided that one thing that we could do to get things going was to go through our former investigators list from our area book. We compiled a group of names and addresses of people we felt had a lot of potential to be willing to learn more about the gospel. On top of that, we were able to help organize a district blitz in order to visit all these people. All 8 elders in our district (4 companionships) worked in our area, revisiting these people. Several expressed interest. We found 2 new investigators through that. Additionally, we were able to find a new investigators through our tracting efforts. On top of that, we have several part-member families who said they were willing to take the lessons with us again. It has been a great week, full of opportunity and potential. Things have really started to pick up out here. We have been busier than ever. I am looking forward to this upcoming week to see how things go with all these new people. One of the part-member families is Polynesian and the kids all dance Tahitian, Hula, Samoan, and several other Polynesian cultural dances. We have a LOT to talk and bond about. The father used to dance at the Polynesian Cultural Center! I'm looking forward to meeting with them, getting to know them better, and helping them "Come Unto Christ". 

Other than that, it's been a pretty great week. Our entire district has been doing super well and have gotten to know one another a lot since the last time we talked.  We are planning on doing the district 3 and doing it in "The Office" style which should be pretty fun! If we finish it sometime soon, I'll send it off to you guys and you can let me know what you think. 

Until next week! Love y'all!

-Elder Kaitoku

Week 81: January 15, 2018

Hey everybody,

Elder Kaitoku is now in the North Gate 1st and 2nd wards in the Walnut Creek Stake/Zone. It's been really great so far. I moved just a few minutes north of my last area so if I hike to the top of the mountain, I can peek over and see Danville. I will definitely miss those guys!

The new area has been really great so far. The members are all very great and I've been getting along really well with my new companion Elder Vindich who is from Mayberry, North Carolina. One of the highlights of the area is the new apartment! Huge thing. Two bedrooms, and most importantly: TWO BATHROOMS. YES.

Looking forward to working here and loving and serving the people like all those that I've been able to in my previous areas. Not much to report on this week but until next week! Peace

-Elder Kaitoku

Week 80: January 8, 2018

Well, we received our transfer calls and *drumroll* Elder Kaitoku will be transferred to the Walnut Creek zone. I will be serving in the North Gate 1st and 2nd wards. I am looking forward to getting to know these people and serving them. My companion will be Elder Vindich. 

I've truly grown to love the Danville community and am sad that I will be leaving but I know that I will cross paths with these people again sometime in the near future (hopefully). As for the events of this past week:

We had a meeting at the chapel as a district. Normally, we park through the lines so that we don't have to reverse. For those of you who don't know, the driver's companion has to get out and instruct the reversing of the cars. So instead we simply pull through and park perpendicular to the lines. On this occasion, my comp and I decided we had some time so I reversed him into the stall so we could just drive out. Well, some other elders decided to park directly in front of us so that we would be blocked. During the meeting, one of the other elders peeked out the window and exclaimed, "There's a police car outside!" The other missionaries (who parked in front of us) ran outside while my companion and I walked calmly. After some explanation, we realized that the officer was a member and thought it was funny. But the whole experience reminded me of a scripture I had studied just that morning: Proverbs 28:1 "The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion."

We also experienced an earthquake this past week! At approximately 2:39am, we felt a 4.4 or 4.5 magnitude earthquake. It woke up me and my companion. My companion said that he thought I had gone over and just started shaking his bed for no reason and was really confused. Yeah, like I'm going to wake up at 2:39am to crawl over and start shaking your bed...on a Thursday?? Naw that's more of a Tuesday thing.

Anyways, our district is having our farewell lunch soon so I'd better get going! Hope to hear from you all and hope you all have a great year!

-Elder Kaitoku

Week 77: December 18, 2017

​Hey Everybody,

This week has been pretty great. We got to go to some of the fanciest parties that I've ever been to. I've decided that one can determine the fanciness of a party based on how much variety of cheese and crackers there are. Ah the perks of Danville.

The family that we've been working with up to this point will continue to be worked with. Due to the holiday season being super hectic and being really busy, we've decided that it would be best to give them more time before baptizing them. The members have been a really great support for them and us in this entire process. The members help to support and love and answer any questions or concerns that they may be faced with. They've also helped us to better understand how we can best work with them. The members here are truly great.

Every new years, our mission is allowed to watch two movies from a selected list of approved movies. This year, Moana and Rogue One top that list. I am super excited because I've heard a lot of great things about these two movies.

We will also be singing for the Christmas program at the Visitor's Center, which we are super excited about.  Love you all and am looking forward to this holiday season! Talk to you later!

-Elder Kaitoku

Week 76: December 11, 2017

This past week was great. We issued a baptismal date for the Elbert family. We set the date for the 23rd of December and we told them the catch was that they had to read and pray every single day as a family until then. We will check in with them the Sunday


 before and see how everything is going and if things are going well, then we will have them baptized! Keep them in your prayers :) 

In other news, we got to do service at the farm again and that was pretty awesome. My district said that they didn't think I could pick up a lamb and put it across my shoulders. Well I did. If I don't have the picture yet, it's because I'm waiting for it to be emailed over. If I don't send it this week, I'll send it next week. We had one of our ward Christmas parties and we got to see a lot of Less Actives and Investigators/Non-members attend. There was also a great Christmas choir event where the Chamber Singers from the nearby high schools came and performed Christmas songs. It was really amazing! Two of the high schools apparently go back and forth when it comes to the state competition. 

With Christmas coming up, there is a lot of holiday cheer and it's been pretty nice to tract into people in a much less rude mood. It has been getting freezing, however, so that's been hard for me. Luckily I've got a nice coat to keep me warm. Not to mention the Spirit. 

Anyways, that's all for today, folks! Until next time!

-Elder Kaitoku

Week 75: December 4, 2017

This past week, I got to really get to know my companion, Elder Ward. He's from Pleasant Grove, Utah. He's been out for about 4 months now. He just came out of his first 12 weeks and his trainer was Elder Hing. Elder Hing is from the Big Island! Chee. He enjoys to ski and play tennis.

The holiday season is a great time of year for missionaries. Everyone is feeling the Christmas spirit and is very nice to us. Already, we've tracted into like 2 or 3 people who are friends with members of the church and have offered to give us food and water and a place to stop by if we're ever in the area. The "Light the World" initiative has been really great as well. One of the wonderful things about the Danville area is that there are always tons of events and parties that we can invite people to. There's a Christmas event where all the high school choirs in the area perform a few Christmas songs and the entire community comes out to that.

We've been working with a lot of people lately and have been trying to meet with them. The Visitor's Center at the temple has also been really great. There's a lot of awesome Christmas events up there all throughout the month as well. I even ran into a former investigator and members from one of my former wards. It was great to see them. 

We are planning on meeting with the Elberts and hopefully setting a baptismal date with them. We hope that they've been reading and praying. Fingers crossed that everything goes well! Wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! 

-Elder Kaitoku

PS sorry about last week, my email spazzed out and sent out that message like 4 times or something.

Week 74: November 27, 2017

What an amazing week!

So transfer calls came around and as it turns out, I will be staying for a 5th transfer here in Danville! Wow! That is the longest I've been in an area. I am looking forward to spending the holiday season here with these people! Love this area. Elder Selli is going home this transfer, back to Virginia. He will be missed. In his stead, I am getting Elder Ward. I don't know much about him other than the fact that he is just coming out of his first 12 weeks or so. 

Our new mission policy is that from 4-6pm every Tuesday-Saturday, we will all be tracting. I must admit that at first, I wasn't all too thrilled about this. Our area has been pretty infamous when it comes to tracting. A few years ago, a stake president told missionaries not to and it became an actual rule. We would still tract but spent a lot of that time of 4-6 visiting with less actives, part member families, and investigators. However, our first night instituting this initiative, we were able to successfully make contact with a gentleman that we have been trying to make contact with for months. Additionally, we tracted into a guy who was like, "Oh hey Elders! Yeah we'd love to have you come by, my wife's best friend is a Mormon but we're about to go Black Friday shopping! Come by again!" Let me tell you, this has not happened before while I've been tracting here these past 6 months. I am loving this new initiative.

Other than that, Thanksgiving was pretty great. We played football. Ya boi intercepted the ball 3 times, had 3 receiving TDs, 1 passing TD, and hahaha jk jk. It was fun tho. We also got to play board games/card games as a zone that night. 

That's all for this week! What will Elder Ward be like? When will the Elberts be baptized?? How soon before Elder Selli gets married back home??? Find out next week on Dragonball Z hahaha 

-Elder Kaitoku

Week 73: November 20, 2017

Happy Early Thanksgiving Everybody!

Now with that being said, this week has been really great. Unfortunately, Elder Selli fell pretty deftly ill for a few days (he has a blood condition) and we weren't able to go out and do much. Luckily, the ward has been super supportive and loving, both wards. I am so thankful for all of the members who checked in on us and got us things that we needed to help him feel better and to get us food. Especially the food. I am thankful for food.
Earlier in the week, we did service at the farm that we go to weekly and whaddya know, we got to castrate those 16 piglets. Now, I don't know about those of you who have served missions, but this is precisely what I had in mind as I was filling out my mission papers. I just knew in my heart that this is exactly what missionary work is all about. If you haven't castrated a piglet on your mission, have you really truly even served a full time mission? Yeah, think about that for a bit. Anyways, that is an experience I will NOT be forgetting anytime soon. No matter how hard I try. 

...I can still hear their squeals...

Other than that, there are a lot of fun, interesting, and exciting events coming up at the Visitor Center. The Visitor Center is such a great resource in missionary work and I am so glad that we have one in our mission. It's great to take members and nonmembers alike to the fun events there, especially with the Thanksgiving and Christmas season coming up.
With that being said, I am super thankful for all of you and your prayers and support. I am thankful for this opportunity to be on my mission and to serve the people here. 

Love ya and talk to ya later!
-Elder Kaitoku

Week 72: November 13, 2017

Elder Whiting, from the Quorum of the Seventy, visited our mission this past week. He gave a lot of very insightful advice and messages to the missionaries as well as at stake conference. One of the really cool analogies that he shared with us was relating the Holy Ghost to salt. If we came across an entire room full of people that had never tasted salt before in their life, it would be extremely difficult to explain to them in full detail through words alone what salt tastes like. We could get creative. We can say things like, "it tastes bitter" or "savory" but in the end, it's very difficult to really visualize what salt is and tastes like. However, if we were to have a bowl of salt, we could very easily have each person partake of the salt and know for themselves what it is. Likewise, when we have a lot of people who have never felt or recognized the spirit in their lives, it can be difficult for us to describe it accurately for them. We can quote scriptures, we can share experiences, but in the end, the best thing that we can do is to bring the spirit to them. When we, especially as missionaries, bring "salt" or the spirit with us to meetings, we are able to have people partake of the spirit and we can help them recognize that the feelings and impressions that they feel is the spirit. Be sure to bring "salt" with you everywhere you go.

As for the work out here, we have a new ward mission leader (newish) who's been really doing well to get the ward involved. We are constantly visiting those that require aid, assistance, and friendship. The Elberts (elbErts, not elbIrts as I've learned this week...hey she never corrected me in any of those texts, how was I supposed to know??) were in Miami this past week so we weren't able to meet with them.

Upcoming events, we've got a musical number this Thursday at zone conference. We are singing "Nearer My God to Thee" the Vocal Point rendition. Next Sunday, Elder Selli and I are doing a musical number "Refiner's Fire" because we done been bamboozled. A few weeks back, we were having dinner with a member of the ward and she innocently asked if we were musically inclined. We both humbly said that we did like to sing to which she exclaimed, "HA! I'm the ward musical coordinator!! MWAHAHAHAHAHA" or something like that. She said she would have to get us to sing in sacrament meeting someday. We thought she had forgotten about it until a few weeks later, she said she signed us up for the 19th.  

We done been punked.

Well, that's all from me today, I am glad I got to email a bit longer this week. Until next week!
-Elder Kaitoku

PS this week, we get to help castrate piglets. Yay. 

Week 71: November 6, 2017

Hey guys this is gonna be a quick email but here goes:

1. We had a great Halloween, we got to stay in and clean the apartment. Yay. We also dressed up but I don't have my camera right now so I'll send those pictures next week.

2. We had another temple day which was great as always.

3. The missionaries in the district/zone have really been shopping all P day these past few weeks hence the limited computer time so I apologize. There is a Nike outlet out here and there were some pretty impressive sales here lately. Plus, there's a member that works there that hooks it up for us.

4. We are working on a musical number as a zone and it is finna be LIT. I will have to send a recording next week!

5. Love you all! Sorry for the short email! B

Byeeeeeeeeeeeee

-Elder Kaitoku

Week 69: October 23, 2017

This past week was pretty great. We had a good meeting with the Elbirt's. We were also able to do service for a non-member lady at her farm. Well, we do it every week but this week, I remembered to bring my camera for once soooooooooo you guys get to see some pictures! She recently purchased a bus with the dream to renovate it into an RV. We have been the labor to help out with that and I got to fulfill a lifelong dream of standing on top of the bus. 

We had a great primary program this week and last week in both wards. The kids are great. As you can imagine, there was a lot of kids really getting into it and of course, dabbing somewhere in the song. There was never a dull moment with these guys.
We had transfers recently and our district is now: Elder Selli, myself, Elder Wilkinson, Elder Suriyachan, Elder Bishop, and Elder Maynes. We all have really great chemistry together and have many opportunities to serve together and get to know one another. I am really looking forward to this transfer!​