Just out of curiosity, I was looking at the calendar and it hit me that I have been a missionary for 93 weeks! That's so long! To be completely honest, I don't even remember what real life is like, so when I return home, I'm going to have a really rough time adjusting to "normalcy."
This week Elder Uppencamp and I went to ward council and the new bishop is awesome at keeping order and has a great vision for how he wants the missionary work in this area to move forward. We're going to be focusing heavily on the North American Initiative and be working with the members to visit the part-member families, unbaptized children >8, and prospective elders. This is going to be awesome! And to make things better, Kat and Lizzy came to church yesterday! What's truly amazing is that Kat had a baby last Monday, and still made a point to come to church. She's so great. ^_^ We set up an appointment with her for Wednesday, and plan on setting a baptismal date with her and Lizzy, so this week we should have 4 dates! The goal that I have set is that by the end of the transfer, I want to have 10 baptismal dates. So far we're at 2, but I know that with a little (okay, a lot) of hard & smart work, prayer, and faith, this can happen.
Zone Conference on Tuesday was awesome! Brannick (Elder Ewing), if you go ZL, then you'll have to present the trainings for those meetings! Ha! ;-) President Cutler presented a great analogy where he had Elder Moffett come up and have a Snickers bar. On the back of the bar it said, "Satisfies," and President asked Elder Moffett it that was satisfying. He said it was pretty good, so President pulled out another one, just in case the first one wasn't. By the fourth bar, Elder Moffett looked pretty sick. President Cutler asked him if the Snickers was still satisfying, and pulled out another one for him. Snickers has now been ruined for poor Elder Moffett. The analogy was that the world will tell you that certain things are satisfying, but in all actuality are very superficial and don't give you lasting satisfaction. He then related it to the story of the Tree of Life in 1 Nephi 8 and taught that the Lord wants to give us something that will satisfy us for all eternity. Christ can deliver real happiness; the world can't. It was a great training.
Well, I have to give a training tomorrow for district meeting. I have no clue how to do this, but I know that if I prepare to the best of my ability, then the Lord will assist me. Hopefully this training turns out to where the 3 other elders in my district learn something good... Guess we'll have to see!
I love you all!
~~Elder T. Riggs
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