So I was thrown a curve ball this week. I am getting transferred on Thursday. I thought for sure that I was going to be staying here. But I guess the lord has his reasons. I will be staying as district leader and I will be in a ward, other than that I do not know much information. Elder Cox left this morning. I will miss that guy; he was a really good missionary. 18 hours from now he will be in Brazil.

                I was not expecting to have to leave things to Elder wood so soon. He is a great guy he works hard and is a good missionary. I will be spending some time trying to just turn things over to him. But I know that he can handle it all because he is a really good missionary.

                Things have been exploding here in Indianola, after the baptism this week the work has been picking up a lot. There are a lot of really good things going on. I will be sad to be leaving this place. I have really learned to love it. We have been working with a , lot of less-active members and we have a lot of people to be teaching. We are working with one less active member who is contemplating having his name removed from the church. We had a really log lesson with him last week and it went well. It saddens me the tiny things that people try to come out with against the church. They don’t understand the precious things they are missing by doing that.

                I love you all. So there is a policy change in missionary emails now. “Missionaries are to write to their families each week and are also now authorized to communicate by email with friends, priesthood leaders, and new converts.” This means that people no longer have an excuse to not write me because I can now quickly write back to them. Aka please email me and let others know that they can do that as well. I still only have a little bit of time to write but I will be able to have a reply ready for you by the next week. I love you all please share the gospel every chance that you can get.

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Elder Jacob Gibson of the Iowa Des Moines mission