Welllll...... I’m emailing on Wednesday because our first Pday of the transfer was our temple trip!! So we just went to the temple with our zone this morning and now we are emailing and then we are driving up to BB for E’s baptism!! I’m pretty excited for him. Elder D is baptizing him and I’m confirming him. Anyways I guess you want to hear about where I am and who I’m with! I am in the NP YSA ward that covers the SB stake and the R stake so we have a pretty big area. And my companion is.... Elder H again!!! I was super happy when they read off our names together! It’s been fun being with him and we have taught a few lessons and it just seems like we were never not companions. It’s nice because we didn’t have to waste time trying to get a feel for how each other teaches.
The work in the YSA ward is really pretty hard and I’m still not sure exactly how to do it. We don’t really have any investigators right now but what we have been doing as Zone Leaders is this week we scheduled each companionship 2 times in the week that we were going to go tracting with them so 1. We could help them get contacts and 2. Get to know each member of our zone a little better. So far it’s been really good and we have been spending a lot of our day tracting. We are getting pretty good at it haha. Our first week together consisted of doing ALOT of just driving around and helping missionaries with their bikes, or helping them figure out their areas, and just a lot of running errands. Friday was zone leader council where the APs do training and president does training and then we take notes and in our zone meeting the next week we teach our zone. So that took up a lot of our Friday but it was good. I never realized how much a zone leader’s phone goes off during the day! It seems like I’m on the phone more than I’m off it haha. We have to charge it every night.
Well anyways we don’t have tons of time but I wanted to share an AMAZING miracle that happened. So the APs trained on having faith to find people to teach and how really faith is the key to becoming a better missionary than anyone has ever seen even Ammon and Aaron and Alma and Amulek. So after our meeting we were pretty pumped up and that’s when we started to schedule our tracting times with missionaries. Well on Monday we had 3 companionships scheduled and we went with the first 2 and got a few contacts and a couple potentials for those missionaries but nothing special. Then our last companionship cancelled on us and we were 1 contact away from reaching our daily goal of 10 so we asked them where in their area they would like us to tract and they gave us the name of a street. Well we went and parked and started knocking on doors. We had 2 pretty good contacts that seem like they may be pretty solid but they were busy at the time so we told them some other missionaries would be coming back in about a week and they agreed to listen to them. So we kept going and got up to the next street corner and we had 13 contacts so we thought "eh we could just go back to the truck and get going... well we might as well just knock the doors across the street on the way down." Well we got to the last 3 houses and we were talking to a guy on his door step and it was my turn for the door approach and I talked about a lot of stuff and it just seemed like he was just not that interested and said no to a copy of the Book of Mormon so I just said "well would it be okay if we came by another time?" and he said "yeah that’s fine." and I just had the thought. Teach him now. So I asked "hey well do you have a few minutes and we could share part of our message with you?" and he let us in and we sat and taught a VERY powerful restoration and he kept telling us "I know you guys are here for a reason. I know you are." So we gave him a Book of Mormon and he said he would read from it and we set up a time to go back. So we leave the house and we are just stoked! I mean how often does THAT happen?? So we only have 2 houses left and we are like let’s just do these 2 and go. Well the next house was Elder H’s turn and it was a young man in his 20s and his girlfriend and they let us in too!! We taught ANOTHER lesson that went really well. Not AS well as the first but it went very well. It was such an amazing miracle. 2 houses in a row!! It was also a blessing because the next day we were doing our training on the faith to find and we were able to share our experience and tell our zone that hey this really does work. We did it and it worked!
So one last cool story. Elder D, one of the missionaries training in our zone (probably one of the best companionships in our zone. I love them to death.) called and said "hey I have something to tell you! After your training we were all pumped up about finding so we went tracting and it just seemed like EVERYONE was listening to us we even taught an entire family and they said that they would come to church on Sunday!" It’s so great to see the way the Lord works and I’m so glad that some of the missionaries in our zone have been able to see the things that we trained on work personally for them. Anyways it was a great week! I’m loving the new area and being with Elder H again! I love you all tons! I will email again on Monday!
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