#16 - I 'm in a trio...

Sorry I didn't email yesterday we had a multizone conference with Elder Nash from the quorum of the 70. That was the best meeting ever! He was so in tune with the spirit and such a powerful teacher. The meeting lasted for 7 hours and honestly I felt like I could listen to him speak for another 7 hours haha he knows how to teach by the spirit! When you can solve someones problems in the scriptures, then we will be effective. That is my goal. To know the scriptures so well that I can answer questions and solve problems through them. People need to understand the gospels relevance in their lives. Our job is to help them feel the spirit, understand the relevance, and know how to solve their problems through the scriptures.  

He said there is a simple formula to seeing miracles. Go to work+ Work Smart= Miracles. To work smart requires some help. And the help comes from the ward. Starting with the bishop. If you can get him involved in the missionary effort then the ward will follow. We need to have a member present to all of our lessons. Get the members to fellowship investigators into the ward. The best way to get them on board is to teach a lesson with a member present and have them have a spiritual experience. Get them motivated in the work! That was exactly what I needed to hear because we have so many investigators on date but none of them will come to church because they don't know if they will be accepted. We need to fellowship them into the ward. 

Thanks for the birthday and christmas package:)) It was a great surprise. And yes I opened it ASAP there was no way I was going to wait to open it haha. I hung my christmas tree up in the hall so everyone will see it.

Guess what!? I am in a trio! One of the missionaries in my district went home today. It was hard to see him go. I gave him a tie to remember me:) But on the bright side now Elder Quick is my companion as well as Elder Clark. Haha! He is moving his bed into our room tonight:) 

For my birthday tonight we are going bowling. Thanksgiving morning we had the turkey bowl! It was really fun running around all the old men in the ward;) They videoed some of it so maybe they will be able to send it home for you! We went to the Potters at 1 o'clock. At 4 we went over to the Piersons for another meal! Hopefully I gained weight haha because I ate a lot! One pound of turkey meat offers more than 133 grams of protein fyi:) That night we went out and bought some boots for me. They are nice and I got them on sale since it was black Thursday night haha almost black friday. 

We helped a lady on Tuesday move to Greenwood. It was so fun. We backed the truck up to her back door to get some things from the basement. We loaded the Uhaul truck up but ran into a problem. We couldn't get it back up the little hill! It got stuck! Apparently the ground was too wet and soft hahaha. When we tried it only got even more stuck. So we came up with an idea. We put junk under the tires so it had some traction then Quick would give it as much gas as he could and we would push to help. We got so muddy! Eventually it caught traction and started going. The lady was a bit angry because we tore up a good amount of the grass hahahahha. It was so funny we were all rolling watching the truck burning out in the grass! There were tire tracks all over the grass from the truck. Oops good thing in the winter the grass is dead anyways. Oh the fun we have :)

Love you all! Peace out homies

Turkey Bowl 2015

Elder, Elder Coon, Elder Quick, & Elder Clark