I'm so jealous that I am missing the Phoenix Temple open house! Especially after hearing about all the murals in it. I wasn't sure if new temples were going to have the murals or not. And you get to be such an active part of it! Tour guides and such. Way cool. That's a lot of people coming to attend! 1,100 an hour!
It was an ok
week. Tuesday was MLC which I always love! It was in Helena and I got to
see Elder Rasmusson, Elder Packham, and several others who I have
served with or who were in my MTC group. What was new this time?...I
drove the van starting at 4:30
in the morning! Really fun but super tiring. I'm getting pretty good at
it though. :) We discussed a lot about how to manage our zone
effectively, finding efforts, and focussing on activities that actually
bring results. Not just time-wasting things to make it look like we're
doing something. Lots to counsel on!
I was so
tired from MLC Wednesday that I fell asleep for 40 minutes on my knees
in preparation from personal study. We spent some of the day painting.
Most of the time I was on a ladder or on the roof painting a non-members
home. I enjoy painting and it was a good stress reliever. That night we
tried hunting down Kevin (our AWOL baptismal date).
Meet
the Mormons has been a huge success! We got enough people to request it
and it got here to Billings as well as Helena. Our Ward Mission Leader
is awesome. He got 7 radio stations to announce it in theaters and did
all kinds of advertising. It sold out several showings here in Billings
and was #10 in the box office nation wide! Pretty dang good for only
showing in select theaters. Mormonnewsroom has more detail.
Lots
of good things are happening with the church media. As a mission we are
now approved to do #hashtags, pictures, and even videos in our online
proselyting efforts! Friendly reminder though, that if I post something
to facebook you can't "like" comment or message me! It will be fun to
follow though :)
I've been struggling a bit. We
had two potential investigators drop us and we have been trying to find
people for weeks. Our third companion is draining all patience from me
and honestly I feel less of the spirit when I am around him. But I need
to exercise more faith. Yesterday we fasted for those on baptismal date
in our zone and we currently have twenty! Not to shabby but I would like
to contribute to that number you know? Hope to see some miracles this
week.
Well that is all I got for this week.
Glad to things are going pretty well.
That was funny about Jesse's dream that Jimmy got drawn to hunt bread!
hahahahaha so funny. Have a great week! Love you!
Pictures: I'm in the back row, Elder Packham to my left, Elder Griffith to his left, Elder Rasmusson in third
row :)
