Hi everyone!
This week's been pretty good. We taught a lot more than last week now that everything's settled down from Thanksgiving and what not. It definitely wasn't a perfect week, but it was good. And some of our lessons were REALLY good! One of our families have been having a really hard time lately, and the dad especially has been struggling with depression, and we finally got back in to teach them and the Spirit was so strong! I could tell we needed to be there at that time sharing the message we did. It was a cool experience for sure. We found a new investigator who seems pretty golden. We're meeting again with them later today actually. So yeah, it was a pretty good week. I'm really excited about this week. We're looking at the potential to get a few new investigators, and it looks like we'll be teaching quite a lot this week. Also Dan and Elizabeth are getting baptized this Saturday! That's super exciting!
On Friday, I had a District Leader Training Meeting. Usually President does one for each zone, but this time he decided to do only two, one for all of the St. George Zones, and one for the Cedar and Richfield Zones. The DL Training for Cedar/Richfield was in Beaver, which is about an hour north of Enoch/Cedar City. Seeing as it was far away, the Cedar District Leaders and the Zone Leaders did a carpool up there. So Elder Lewis, Elder Phelps, and I met at Elder Lewis's apartment, dropped off our companions, and then picked up the ZLs and headed to Beaver. That road trip was hilarious! I can't even remember what it was we talked about, but it was funny. Put five goofy Elders in a car and funny is bound to happen. It's just a fixed law of the universe I think. Anyway, the meeting itself was really good, and then afterward we had some pumpkin pie that President Center made, which was super good. The drive back started similar to the drive up, really entertaining, but then everyone (except Elder Phelps who was driving) just sort of crashed and passed out. Elder Lewis didn't fall asleep, but even he got pretty quiet and relaxed, at least compared to the drive up. Then we got back, picked up our companions and went about the rest of our evenings. It was really fun to have that time with some of them. And Elder Phelps and Elder Lewis are such cool people. It'll be really sad when they go home in a couple months.
We had Stake Conference on Saturday and Sunday, and it was really cool because we had a General Authority there! It wasn't one of the Apostles, but it was a Seventy and he had a lot of good things to say. After the Priesthood Leadership Session on Saturday afternoon, we had been invited to a special dinner with the Stake Presidency and the Seventy. That was super fun! It was the Stake Presidency, Elder Wilson (the Seventy), us, our senior missionary couple, and a couple other people in Stake leadership positions. We got to talk to Elder Wilson a fair amount that evening, and then Sunday morning too, before and after the general session of Stake Conference. He's super nice! He also had a lot of good things to say in conference. One of the things he talked about was asking "Will you..." questions. Asking questions like that gives people a chance to use their agency, and gets things done a lot quicker than just throwing out a "we invite you..." statement. There was also a special fireside for ward missionaries, investigators, and less actives that Elder Wilson did. Unfortunately only one of our investigators was able to make it for that. But I think she needed it, and then she got to talk to Elder Wilson for several minutes after conference as well. It was really cool to have a general authority there, and even more cool to hang around him as much as we got to.
Well, that's about it for this week. I guess I just want to remind everyone about the Church's Christmas initiative. It's all on Mormon.org and it's super cool! And if a Christmas message isn't
enough for you, the narrator on one of the videos sounds just like Liam Neeson (just throwing it out there as extra incentive to check it out). It really is an awesome thing, and it just makes me love this
Christmas season all the more.
Have a great week everybody!
-Elder Oswald
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