Week Forty-four:  Zone Conference and Stuff [May 28, 2018]

Hi Everyone! 

It's been a pretty good week. Here's what's happened. 

Zone conference was this week. Most of it was about how to work with members better. There were many good ideas and I'm exited to get to try them out. There was also a fun experience during lunch. A few people at the table I was sitting at were doing a challenge to see if we could stuff a whole cupcake in our mouth. After most of us had done it one of the missionaries challenged a sister to get President Nakken to do it as well. She took a cupcake to him and we all watched eagerly from our table to see what he would do. Well she convinced him and everyone clapped and cheered as he did it! He saw that it was our table that encouraged it and had all of us go in front of everyone and do it again!

We taught Judy again on the temple and family history work. We've pretty much taught her everything that she would need to know before she goes to do baptisms for the dead. We'll see what her thoughts are as time goes on. We also met with Brooke and Byron who are some of our other investigators. They had just gotten back from a two week trip and we mostly talked about that. 

We taught a potential named Elaine the plan of salvation. At the end we talked about how to gain a testimony of what we had taught her would come by reading the Book of Mormon. She is very hesitant and said that when she has looked though it before she found some things that were red flags. She eventually agreed to pray and see if she should read it. Everything right now is up to her and the Lord. Keep her in your prayers that she will be able to get the right answer. 

On Saturday at about 1:00 we got a text from brother Bergmann (who's also in the bishopric) asking us if we could give a talk on Sunday. Overall I think I had about two hours to prepare for it. Apparently I did a good job though. One of the members even requested a copy! 

We found five new potentials this week, so not as good as last week but still not a bad number by any means. Nothing new with Jeff and Heidi. We tried by a few times and they weren't there. There cars were gone which makes me think they are out of town. 

It's the last week of the transfer so we're hoping all goes well. Hope you have a great week! 

Elder Jason Riches