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| Elder Record standing by "the North Pole" in North Pole, AK |
Elder Higley
says it's three degrees and perfectly good weather. It's kind of
cold, but yeah it's not that bad. Elder Higley is from Missouri, the
Ozark's region, which is southwest.
Elder Record: What is your favorite thing about Alaska?
[Pause]
Elder Record: Okay, least favorite thing?
Elder Higley: It's cold. It's dark. The sun doesn't go down in
the summer. Everything is expensive.
Elder Record: That is true. Okay, so now let's think of
positive things. For every negative thing, we have to say five
positive things.
Elder Higley: I get to drive a truck. I get the gas.
Elder Record: We get mail. I never got mail before my mission
except for bills.
Elder Higley: Well, I passed where we are supposed to go.
Elder Record: That's okay. Sorry, I was distracting you.
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| Plaque for "the North Pole" |
So this week was
kind of hectic because it was transfers, and we had to move people
around, staying up late, and helping people at the mission home, zone
conference that we had to plan for and carry out. So it was a busy,
busy week. But, we were still able to do a lot of work and see a few
non-members. We got to go out and visit a lot of less active members.
We have a really
cool ward mission leader. He is really proactive and just a great
guy. This ward is really cool. I am excited to be serving here,
because everybody seems to want to work. There are a lot of returned
missionaries.
For
zone conference we basically talked about overcoming challenges and
concerns. We talked about how in order to get charity and love, to
have a desire to work and to have love for others, and hope that good
things can happen; you need to apply Moroni
8:26 which says after you receive a remission of sins,
that brings meekness and lowliness of heart. So as you remember the
atonement, and what the Savior has done for us; we are humbled. That
humility invites the Spirit. When we have the Spirit it then says
that comforter fills us with hope and perfect love; so charity and
hope. There are some really good definitions of those in Preach My
Gospel. With that, you have to be humble and you have to have virtue.
So you have to have good thoughts, and constantly be putting good in.
Otherwise, you cannot develop those attributes and have the Spirit
with you. That's kind of what I studied and a little bit about what
we talked about in zone conference. That was the focus to be focused
and have a change of attitude, and to go out and work with a fresh
determination. We also talked a little bit about finding new
investigators, and how to go about doing that and working with the
members. We had some training from President and Sister Beesley and
the assistants. A lot of it was kind of talking about the same thing;
which was kind of ironic, but not really when working with the
gospel. It's not ever a coincidence. The Lord tells us how we need to
improve, like it says in Ether
12:27.
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| Elder Record sitting in Santa's chair, but is he naughty or nice? Probably just missed Santa. |
[Water running the background]
Right now I'm a little distracted
because I'm doing laundry.
Anyway, it was really fun. It's fun
being a zone leader...
Elder Higley:
You want the bags of laundry – the bag itself?
Elder Record:
Yep. Oh, alright, there we go. Do I have any other darks?
Elder Higley:
You have your glove.
Elder Record:
Oh!!! My glove, thank you. Okay, so... [washer door slams in the
background] uuh...
Elder Higley:
Was the stuff you're wearing...
Elder Record:
Yea, that was my white shirts. Alright, anyway [washer door slams]
...ooh!! that was the weird stuff; Fels-Naptha.
Anyway, sorry. I'll talk to you guys next week I guess.
Love, Elder Record
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