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| Elder Vial, Jake, Dallas at the Epic Cousin Sleepover Dallas and Elder Vial stayed at Aunt Jen's in Santa Fe to prepare for the zone conference the next day |
We successfully did three zone conferences this week, and it was a blast. The theme for these zone conferences are REMEMBER THIS the back page of Preach My Gospel. President asked Elder Vial to train on plan every day and focus on key indicators, and work effectively all day, every day. He does a great job with it. President asked me to train on the last two bullet points... 1. Help everyone you teach make commitments that will bring about repentance and will strengthen their faith in the Savior. And 2. Love The Lord and serve him the very best you can. I have a lot of fun with it, and I couldn't think of anything else I'd want to train on. I use Coach Browns 32 minutes to play, a life time to remember. but I changed it to 2 years or 18 months to serve, an eternity to remember. I have reached a point were I love teaching and training missionaries almost as much as I love teaching investigators, there is a lot of power in a room full of missionaries.
So... Yes we did three zone conferences this week, and we were super busy with that, but the highlight of the week was Saturday! I love Saturdays! Lynsie was baptized! What a miracle she is. I still remember one of her first texts to us. "I want you to know right away that I have no interested in converting, I just want to know what my mom is learning." This miracle started many months ago when Elder Haueter and I knocked into Lynsies mom on exchanges. The Elders there started teaching her mom, Lynsie got home from study abroad, and then we started teaching her! To put it simply, the Savior is the master of His vineyard. I will send pictures later hopefully.
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| Lynsie's baptism |
Yesterday was a good Sunday. We met with three stake presidents because President Miller was in El Paso for a stake conference. We discussed the work in their respective stakes and made plans to increase the efforts. Sunday night we taught a missionary prep class in the mission home for the Albuquerque stake. That was super fun! Three of them who came were from our YSA branch so that was super cool. We trained on being interested not interesting, and being able to contact someone.
Friday night was insane! Our branch and the LDSSA hosted a huge dance on UNM campus. It was awesome! Between us and the Sisters in our branch we talked to a TON of people. The dance was a hit. Our eyes and ears were full of Babylon with the music and everything, but I experienced a small tender mercy, the next day I could 't remember the music that was played at the dance. That was very nice. We spent the night serving pizza and drinks. Right before we left the DJ had us up on the stage and introduced us. It was super cool! We were a hit!
This week we will be in Las Cruces and El Paso for a few days doing zone conference and exchanges. Good stuff. Tonight our branch is doing a big Matanza (pig roast) at President Browns house. We have a couple investigators coming that we are super excited for. We recently started teaching the defensive end for UNM Randy Williams. He's huge! Haha he is dating a member and has been to church a couple times. We are pumped about him. He is super nice and very smart.
I swear I blinked and this week was over. We are so busy we don't know what to do with ourselves sometimes. Our branch President shared this scripture with us and it has helped me a lot. Psalm 46:10. "Be still, and know that I am God."
Well we just got a text from a potential investigator we contacted in Panda Express (yes Dylan I like Panda Express) and he wants to go to lunch today! Yes! Time to hop back in the saddle! Love you all!
Elder TurnVial
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