The Hot and Winding Road

Hello everyone! This week has been a good one (they always are). We have been searching and searching for new people to teach. We have been knocking doors, dropping by part member families, and we even picked up trash on a road in the 100 degree weather in our church clothes. We thought that ought to attract some attention, and it did. We had people pull over and talk to us, tell us thank you, and we even a hispanic family come out of their house and give us a bunch of food. It was hard (and really, really hot and sweaty), but it was totally worth it. We also had a missionary homecoming in our ward yesterday. The Elder had just gotten back from a mission in Mexico, and could hardly speak english anymore. Luckily, I won't have that problem when I get back. I also signed the sacrament prayers yesterday for the first time. I was so nervous, but I think I did okay. I have been learning a lot, and I hope to keep it up after I get home. We have an investigator who we will be extending a baptismal date to this next week! I'll let you know how that goes.


My Zone leader responsibilities are to train the district leaders once a week, and we also give trainings at the huge zone conferences every three months. When the district leaders collect their numbers for the week, they call us and report them to us. We then send them to the mission president. We also have meetings with the stake president and our mission president to talk about how the work is going in our stake/zone. We also have something called Zone Leader Conference once a month, where the zone leaders get together and meet with the mission president and the Assistants to be trained. In some ways its harder, and in other ways it's easier than being district leader. Mainly because there are always two zone leaders (my companion is a zone leader too), while there is only one district leader per district (So my companion wasn't a district leader with me). It really helps having someone with the same responsibilities as you.

I hope you all are doing well and are having a great summer!