May 7, 2012

Well I don't have much to write about today. 

We have a General Authority coming to our mission this next week, the 19th.  It should be fun, we are getting the whole mission together to listen to him....  He may be a Jr. Member of the 12, oh wait, in fact he is!  Elder Anderson is coming and we are going to be able to listen to him for a few hours on Saturday morning.  It's going to be really fun to have him in our mission.

We had Zone Conference this last week!  It was very fun to be around President and Sister Collins.  They are doing smaller zone conferences so it was our zone and the Muncie zone that met and were trained.  They used to have 4 zones all together for them, but I like the smaller groups we get to be in.   E. Jones and I prepared a training for the afternoon, and we were able to train our zone on helping people see the bigger picture of the gospel. All too often we meet people and they don't want to continue to meet with us, yet there isn't 1 spirit on this earth that didn't at one point choose this very plan, and we need to be able to remind that spirit inside of them that it's true.  Sometimes we have to look at the box when we are putting a puzzle together! 

We have seen a big jump in the progress and understanding of our own investigators over the last week as we have been able to apply the lesson we trained on.  We have investigators that weren't really progressing decide that  they want to share this message with other family and friends, and that means that their faith is growing and that they are gaining a testimony!  It's fun to watch and be apart of. 

Well last week I officially hit 15 months...  kind of sad to think that there are only going to be 9 more of these....  It's hard to think back about how life was before the mission, and even more intimidating to think about how life could be after...  Scary thoughts all around. 

Well other than that, not much else is going on.  We are prepping for a good week of teaching, and going on several exchanges with elders in our zone, and then mothers day is here, and call number 3 out of 4 will take place!  Scary!?  You have no idea what it's like to press send and call home. 

I hope all is well and that life keeps going well for all of you!

Love Elder Rees