Zone Conference and Illness and Chick fil a!

So this week was pretty good! We had some exciting things happen! Some fun stuff that goes on in the life of a missionary.

We had Zone Conference on Wednesday! It was down in Sparks! It was a lot of fun! It was really focused on the spirit and listening to it. Without the spirit we are utterly incapable of doing the thing which we have been called to do. We had to give a training to our zone on how to illustrate that The spirit really really guided us on how to do it. I really want to talk about it because I think it can help anyone! 

So first thing is that you must be obedient. Without that you cannot have the spirit with you.
The next major thing is that you must be in a good environment for the spirit to be around you. "Stand ye in Holy places" and all that.  

Next you must pray and ask God for it to be given you 

The next principle is "revelation comes as thoughts to the mind and feelings to the heart". And also "a thought is revelation until proven otherwise"

If it is a good thing, then it comes from God! 

We did some pretty cool role plays to demonstrate these principles and the missionaries got it! They had the very promises given to them come true in the very moment they had them! Many of them received the revelation they needed, and didn't listen to it. It was a powerful teaching moment to council with them together and to point out and tell them that the thought they had would have solved the problem. It would have answered the concern. Now they recognize that it truly comes as thoughts. As a sentence or a phrase or a question. That was incredible to see with them. 

So zone conference was very good. I love hearing the guidance of President Chesnut. He knows the truth about what we need out here! 

So on a less awesome note, all four of our people that we have on date have fallen through. Even the one from last week. So instead of having a baptism on Saturday, we stayed in all day because this week I got SUPER sick. but now I'm okay!! It has passed. That was seriously an answer to prayer. After fighting whatever that was for 6 days I was getting pretty week and tired. I spent a good amount of time begging God for help and strength. And then yesterday I woke up pretty much fine. That was a huge miracle!

Also a huge miracle: WE HAD CHICKFILA FOR DINNER THIS WEEK

I love all y'all and each y'all!

Elder Miner 

P.s. Shout out to my parents 24th wedding anniversary!! 24 years, two continents (back and forth), many states, 4 boys, a mission, college x 2, high school x 3, an unholy amount of sports x 4, a Temple cultural celebration, a large variety of callings, and lots and lots of food later (so many trips to Costco) and they are still sticking it out! Not bad for this day and age. I love them and make sure to let them know how amazing they are!!! 

Chick Fil a opens in Reno!

North Reno zone