The
Zone Conference itself was awesome. Elder Costa, the President of the
Area Seventies, and his wife came to it. (Which was also why it was a
combined Zone Conference.) They talked a lot about the various chapters
in Preach My Gospel, with a lot of emphasis on 4 and 10, Recognizing the
Spirit and How Can I Improve My Teaching Skills. I came out of it all
with a whole bunch of new ideas on how to start working with the
members, and might I just say: Please, be the kind of members who do
member work. It's so important. Even if the missionaries don't approach
you about it, do it and introduce friends to the missionaries, invite
them to church, just be friends and good examples. I think the biggest
problem is that a lot of the time, members don't know how to do
missionary work, and missionaries don't know how to do member work. We
just all need to work together, and we can figure it out. Be the model
families that the missionaries all love because they help them! We also
got to see all of the new #LightTheWorld videos, and they're super good.
I'd highly recommend watching them all (there's only 4, and they're
short) because they're so powerful. There's also a new calendar thing
that has been put up, and it's got a lot of great ideas.
For
just the week itself, it was pretty good. Jay has been continuing to go
to church, and is even already answering questions in Sunday School! He
really likes church, and is going to be a strong member, especially
because he's young. We've been teaching him the lessons again, and he
remembers a lot of what we taught. And he's super excited to go do
baptisms for the dead, there'll be a temple trip in January. Pray for
him! Osvaldo (Ozzie) has also been doing good. He keeps on saying how
he's already seeing differences in his life from when we've been
teaching him, and wants to continue meeting with us. He's great, but he
gets nervous around new people and so church is hard for him. He hasn't
made it since our last weekend of service 2 weeks ago. He keeps on
saying that he wants to go, though. We also met someone really cool
named Oscar. We knocked into him and he let us right in! He's talked
with missionaries before, and so he already likes us. He didn't make it
to church, but we're visiting with him again tomorrow. I'm excited to
see where he goes. And as the last little bit of news for the week, our
apartment is smelling good again due to our awesome branch president
giving us a bunch of melter things, room sprays, and stuff like that
that he makes himself. And some of the honey from his hives in the back.
I don't know if they're online, but if you can find Sue's Wicks
somewhere, go for it. It's good stuff. We also did find out the source
of the bad smell, Elder Escobedo had left a whole bunch of sweet
potatoes in a box on top of the fridge, and they weren't doing so hot.
On the plus side, I found out that vacuums are a great way to quickly
get rid of large numbers of fruit flies that are too small to be
effectively swatted!
Until next time!
And these are our preparations for Christmas that we found in the attic, and the world's largest frying pan, which is about 12 miles down the road from us. We were visiting our Branch Mission Leader and decided to stop by the only tourist attraction in our area because it was on the way.
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