So I don't have too much time
this week to write but I loved conference
as well it was so sick! My favorite talk was probably Dale G Renlunds
when he talked about how a saint is just a sinner who keeps on trying!! So sweet. and I loved the music analogy as well it made a lot of sense
but what hit it home I feel like was Boyd K Packers, L Tom Perrys, and M Russell Ballards talks on the family and how important it really is. And
how that needs to be our number 1 priority!! Which gave me some good
revelation for when I come home:) but I also like Pres Uchtdorfs talk on
grace. That has probably been the biggest testimony I have gained on my
mission. The importance of grace and what it actually is. I had a
cool experience, I had a question in my heart of what I could do for a couple of friends and I prayed in my head during the conference and then 2
minutes right after I prayed, Brent H Nielson talked about the prodigal
son and how we can deal with those who are struggling to come back and
what we can do. It was such a cool way to receive an answer!
But
the mission council trip was so awesome!! I wish I had more time to write
about it. We hiked Kennesaw mountain where a lot of the civil war took
place. At least two major battles, Pigeon Hill and Death Point at
Chetham hill and we visited both places as well as the Marrietta
Cemetary with all the graves. It was so cool and gave me a deeper
appreciation of the land where I am serving as well as for America and
what we had to go through to make it as it is today. How cool is it
that Joseph Smith testified that the civil war would happen before it
did!
April 13, 2015.....
That's awesome that y'all got to go up and be
with Cassidy as she went through the temple, must have been a spiritual
moment for sure to see another one of the cousins go through.
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But
my week this week was great. Elder Barnes is the new Companion!! He came
out one transfer after me and he has been a ZL before so we have just
hit the ground running and have connected really well. He is 23 and from
Alpine as well! They stuck with me with 2 of them! But the crazy thing
is they are actually from the same home ward and have known each other
for 12 years. So its fun hearing all the memories they have had
together. Its just a small world. Nothing really crazy happened this week in the
teaching game due to the fact we had a lot of meetings with all of our
District Leaders and getting all the stuff out of the way at the
beginning of the transfer so we are excited to kick it off this week! We
did have some fun on Saturday doing a community service project
cleaning up Conyers. The ward was assigned to clean up Old Town and we
had a great time and found a lot of new people to teach from that. Ill
forward some pictures and the big news of our week is they changed the
bishopric in our ward!! It is now Bishop Nolden!!! We are so stoked! He
is our favorite member in the ward and so focused on missionary work so
its gonna change this area!
April 20, 2015....
Another glorious week here in the Conyers zone family!! I have already told you
basically what happened but we just went crazy with being bold and
inviting everyone we found to come closer to the Savior through baptism
and we saw the results from it. Many people accepted and we went from
29 baptismal dates to 68!!! The next closest zone to that is 35! So we
are so happy with what we are seeing and we are teaching way more people
with members. The zone averaged 13 member present lessons which is
amazing. So that was really cool to see. It all really happened cause in
our zone training meeting that we had we were planning on talking about
how we need to be more bold but it was going to be in regards to the
members, but a companionship brought an investigator who is getting
baptized this week to the meeting and she stood and and said "Yall are selfish,
you are not being bold enough with these people! You have no idea what
you have!" it was AMAZING. The spirit jabbed all of us to the heart and
we all committed to being more bold. and we are now seeing the results
from it so it was really cool.
But
we taught a lot of great people this week and found a lot of new people. We are trying to rebuild our teaching pool cause we kind of baptized
out of it. And one thing we have just implemented in the mission and I
want to testify of the truthfulness of it is Singing!! We sing in every
single lesson with a member or an investigator we use it as a finding
tool and just sing with random people on the streets and they LOVE it!! It has helped so much and I think that is another reason for the success
because what a great way to bring the spirit into an atmosphere than by
singing one of Gods Hymns! So its pretty cool. I never thought in a
million years that I would walk up to a stranger and ask if I could sing
with them but I do it and I love doing it!
I
am just grateful that I have been able to serve the Lord for 2 years
and have been able to at least bring one soul unto Christ. Myself. Its
the greatest blessing ever and I will definitely cherish every minute I
have left. Its amazing with all the work we've got going on I have no time
to even think about home. It honestly feels like I'll never leave this
place. I love it!
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April 27, 2015.....
So
crazy week this week, so much went on, but lets just say our zone is
still killing it!!! There were 5 baptisms with many more to come but we
had an average per companionship and we have 15 companionship with 4.3
people one date for baptism and 4.3 investigators at church!!! So sweet! That's unheard of. We had a lot of success in our own area with a lot
of cool miracles. First off Sammi is doing great. She is still going
strong and coming and doing family history work. The big news this week
is David received the priesthood!! And his mom and uncle were
there to support him! We are super stoked for him. He has totally
changed. Then we had 7 of our investigators come to church!! It was
crazy to make sure everybody was in the right place and having a good
experience. We were pooped at the end of church but thats what its all
about! And I forgot to mention that we got a new ward mission leader
last week and it has been exactly what we needed to change this place
around. He has previously been a bishop and knows how to do missionary
work. He is amazing and he is constantly helping
us and making sure everything is working smoothly. He really helped us
out this week. So 2 of our progressing investigators, Monica and Eric
need to get married before they get baptized. So we took the ward mission leader
on a team up to teach the law of chastity with them and they are both
young 19 and 21. And as we were teaching he cued in and said we
can get you married in 2 weeks if you would like to. Ill set everything up
and make sure it goes exactly how you want it and then you can get
baptized!!! Monica's jaw dropped and her eyes got super big and the
first thing she said was "I dont know what Im going to wear??" hahaha
so they have now met with the bishop and will be getting married on May
3rd at the church!!! We have all the members of the ward council helping
and then in 2 weeks on the 16th they will get baptized!! Miracles! We
are super happy. I've always wanted to marry someone and get them
baptized and now its happening! All because our ward mission leader was
bold with them!
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