I'm sorry to report that for the second week in a row I
probably won't have any pictures to send. I've been doing better and I've
really been trying! but this week we've got a lot going on so I know next
week there will be lots of pictures
To Mom:
This week was great. Getting all those pictures and
hearing about all my friends getting home from their missions was really
weird. So I've been trying not to think about that all week hahaha.
Weird that everyone is home now.
We had a good week though. We have found a lot of new
investigators and had some great success.
This week was my last zone conference. There are some
big changes from the missionary department. There's a new planner coming
soon and a new PMG that has already been released. some of the
interesting things: The church will no longer use the word
"investigator" We will now be referring to people learning
about the church as "people being taught" I think that's an
obvious change that should have happened a long time ago. But it's good
it doesn't put people inside a weird box that they don't want to be in when
they come to the church for the first time and they aren't members.
Also we have finally stopped reporting on all of the extra
stats. The missionary department told us to only report on the 4 key
indicators last year in January, but it's taken a really long time to actually
take effect. Officially though, the key indicators are now done except
the 4 and it's really liberating. We don't have to make goals for all
sorts of stuff that would just give us anxiety and not help us fulfill our purpose.
That's going to be big for the missionary work in our mission going
forward.
There was a lot of changes besides those 2 but they just
have to do with missionary things so I'll spare you the details.
It was a nice zone conference, but it was weird knowing that
none of that will even have any effect on my mission at all.
At the end I got the chance to bear my testimony. It
was a lot more emotional than I thought. (I didn't cry) I knew I wouldn't
cry but it was still didn't seem real to give my testimony for the last time
with the elders and I
really felt the spirit of it very strongly. It was cool though
when I shared my testimony one of the Greenies in our zone cried :) that really
made me smile haha. And Elder Aydelotte shared his testimony with
me. He's a guy I really love and respect so that was cool
I also had an interview with President which I thought was
going to be my final interview. It ended up being just a basic 15 minute
interview that we have every transfer, but he scheduled with me for my final
interview. That will be this Thursday and he said it will be an hour and
a half interview. I'm really excited about that.
I will have the interview with him this week because we're
going to be in Cape Town again. We leave tomorrow morning and get back
Thursday as usual. That should be fun and I'll see a few new of my old
buddies because there's been a transfer since last time we went.
When we get back from Cape Town we're going to eat. I
already have a Dinner Appointment scheduled every day until I leave haha
Queenstown has been an amazing area.
We were expecting a lot of investigators this Sunday.
We were disappointed by a few of them, but it was ok because the sister I
mentioned last week, sister Z, came to church for the first time today.
She absolutely loved it, and all the members are really excited about
her. She received a lot of love and support from the members. She's
young and smart and married and she has a car, so she will help the ward a
lot.
There was also a lot of member missionary work
happening. There were a lot of people who brought their friends to church
who we didn't even know. Probably 6 or 7 different members did
that.
Overall there's a lot of great things happening and me and
Elder Dos Santos are really excited about the ward!
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