Hey everyone!
I hope you have had a good week, and I hope that you all had
a wonderful and spiritual experience at General Conference. I know that there
has been some disagreements and contention over some of the words shared over
conference, but just remember "Whether by mine own voice or the voice of
my servants, it is the same." It may not be pleasing to the world, but
that is the teachings, commandments, and revelations given to us from God, and
we must live by them.
So our week has been pretty good. Pretty busy, which is
always good, and we have been working hard.
On tuesday we were able to give some service to Aaron Burns
(that's where the pictures of the owls came from) which was really good. They
also have a tortoise that tried to paint itself green by walking over the paint
lid. It is so good being able to give service though.
Then on Wednesday we went on exchange and I went to Epsom.
It was really good. We worked hard and talked to a lot of people. They also got
a referral of a brazillian family (I was with a brazillian Elder) and he taught
them in brazillian which was difficult for me as I didn't really understand
what was going on. But it went well though and the Son (about 16 years old) at
the end apparently said that us going over that day had been an answer to his
prayers.
While I was away Elder Oleson and our District Leader saw
Kingston and Betty and they are doing well. They committed to live the word of
wisdom and we tried to get them to come to conference, but they weren't able to
make it sadly. They also say Sophie and Chris who we hadn't been able to
contact for a while, but apparently that went really well also.
On friday we had Zone Training at Crawley which was really
good. Our leaders were really inspired and I got so much out of it, and the
spirit was so strong there. Afterwards all of us were pumped and ready to go
out and work. That night after we got back, we just went out an contacted, and
even though not many people stopped to talk to us, we tried to talk to everyone
we could and it felt amazing. Oh, and just typical. We get back from such an
amazing, spiritual and motivating Zone Training, and there are my travel plans
home sitting at the door... not happy about that. Heavenly Father definitely
has a sense of humor.
Then we had to go back to Crawley on saturday and sunday to
watch General Conference. It takes us a while to get there, and on saturday night
it took even longer. We normally go from Crawley to Horsham and from Horsham we
can get a train all the way to Sutton, but we got to Horsham saturday night and
realised that we had missed the last train from there to Sutton, so we had to
get back on the train we just got off, go all the way along the way we just
came and go to Redhill, where we had to get off and get another train to
Dorking (deepdene) and from there walking to Dorking station and get a train
from there to Epsom, and then from Epsom we had to get on another train to
Sutton. Just sharing that so you know the hassle us missionaries have to go
through sometimes.
Conference was amazing though, and there were so many good
talks. I liked all of them really, and felt the spirit and got something out of
all of them. I hope all of you did too.
Well, I am going to wrap this up here. I hope you all have a
good week.
I love you all!!
Elder Zach Mitchell
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