This last week, I got sick. Wait, was
that this last week or the week before? Yeah, that was this week,
wasn't it? We got sick, but surprisingly enough, even though we were
sick the last couple of weeks, we have been super, super busy. There
is this ten year old we started teaching, and she is on date to be
baptized. The situation is pretty cool, because initially the father
didn't really like the Church and prevented his wife from attending.
She was able to come back because he kind of softened up a little
bit. He was at Church the Sunday before Christmas. Come to find out,
he gave his ten year old daughter permission to get baptized. His
wife is a recent convert of a few years. It has been really neat
teaching her, and we just got out of a lesson there. It was fun. We
taught her about the restoration of the gospel. So it felt good. I
always love doing that.
I love teaching. In fact, when I
eventually figure out what I want to go into for my occupation, I
probably want to do something with teaching, because it's very, very
fun. I like helping people understand.
Other than that, we have had a couple
of good opportunities to work with our ward mission leader and the
ward missionaries. We have been helping that organization get
started. It's neat to see. We have our ward mission leader who
conducts our correlation meeting. We have been going out to visit
people with the ward missionaries, and with Brother Faber, the ward
mission leader. It's starting to run very well. I think it will help
the ward get involved in more missionary work as we keep this going
and expand it. Which is good, since most of the missionary work needs
to happen within the ward and their association with others. We kind
of come in and do the teaching so to speak. It's good to see that
going. That was a highlight for me this week.
We have also been doing some family
history. We taught the assistants a little about family history. We
have been preparing for a culture training on the following Thursday.
We are helping everybody get their presentations; the different
elders in the different Samoan areas. That is a lot of business we
end up doing as zone leaders, but it's fun and needs to be done. I
like it because I'm getting a variety of experience on my mission. I
have to tell you what though, I really mission training and being a
district leader (haha). That was fun! I like doing the more one on
one type stuff. As a zone leader I feel kind of detached. The
district leaders are the ones that really have influence on helping
the missionaries in their districts to do well, and improve and
progress. They have a good amount of influence on how well others do.
The zone leaders do the more business stuff to make sure everything
works; but it's fun.
We had an investigator we hadn't taught
in like a month. We finally had another lesson with them with one of
our ward missionaries too. That went well. We were able to get back
on page with each other. He is reading his scriptures and things. It
was nice to see him doing well. He is going to be baptized in April.
Some members took us to Olive Garden.
They have really good food. I like their shrimp. They have like tons
of shrimp stuff. Life is good. I love Alaska! I'm sending my SD card
back in the mail with some pictures on it. You should be getting that
soon. I'm taking my vitamins and staying healthy. When I said I
gained 20 pounds on my mission, it's gone back to only 10 pounds. So,
I don't know if that's good or bad (haha).
Love, Elder Record
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