Umm - so not in "Flag"

We heard from the boy today -- we couldn't quite figure out why he wasn't emailing us yesterday, until we remembered that the libraries were closed for Martin Luther King day. So no library, no internet = no emails. So, he was told that he would be in Flagstaff through the next transfer (transfers occur on Thursdays, by the way), so on Wednesday night he gets a call from the mission president and is told that he is going to be transferred the next day. He is now in Glendale, Arizona, or the valley is what he calls it, so he should be out of the snow and freezing cold. I am not sure if this makes him happy or not. I know he truly loved the people in Flagstaff. I asked him today if he was able to say goodbyes to anyone and he said that he called his investigators as he was packing. In his words, it was difficult, but just like a bandaid, you have to rip it off.
His new companion is Elder Jensen, who has been out for 18-months and says that he is learning a lot from him. Especially on organization, I guess this guy is on top of things. Dereck said that there is a family of 12 with 8 of them baptism age. They are working on them and are hoping to get a commitment from them. There has already been quite the excitement in Glendale for Dereck. He is in an apartment building and someone two floors above him died the second day he was there. Creepy. Then, in the middle of the night on Sunday, one of the complexes near his caught on fire.
His new area is a bike area, so he is excited to be able to drop the pounds he has put on by all the Navajo tacos he ate while he was in Flagstaff. It sounds like he is doing more tracting and running -- not sure what he is running from, hopeful it is to a new appointment, and not from someone, or something!