It's been a while, hasn't it? So what exactly has gone on
the past week and 2 days? We had zone conference. I think this has been my
favorite so far. It was really powerful, and I feel like I learned a lot. The
focus of the zone conference was refocusing on our missionary purpose. One new
thing we are doing as a mission is trying to teach the Restoration to every
single active member in the mission by this September. As a part of that, President
wants us to practice teaching it in just 4 minutes, so we can just be in and
out and have more emphasis on the spirit and the power of the message.
Elder Simmons and I have already had a couple appointments
like that, and they are really great. It’s a little hard teaching that short
sometimes, but we are practicing it a bunch and trying to get it better.
After zone conference, we had our interviews for the
transfer. They were super good. I always love meeting and talking with
President Pack one on one. It's always a very edifying experience.
One thing we learned at zone conference that is kind of
crazy, in the next 3 transfers, 71 missionaries will be going home and 61 new
missionaries will be coming in. That's when we have a total of 180 missionaries
in our mission. So we are going to be having some big changes in the coming
months.
At the end of the week, we had futbol again, and we were
able to get a couple of our investigators to come which was great. Afterwords,
we had a super good lesson with one of those investigators whose name is
Alvaro. He is this 13 year old who comes to play almost every week and already
has a super good relationship with the members and missionaries. He told us he
is interested and wants to come to church. He's a really good kid. We ran into
his mom at sometime in the week, and she told us how much he loves talking to
us and that one day after meeting with us he came to her and said a prayer with
her in their living room. He really is a good kid; I'm excited to see how
things work out for him.
