Elder Chandler Miner: Conferences

So this week was another busy busy busy time!

1 Zone Conference

2 MLC

3 Exchanges with Elder Anderson

4 Briawna Sims baptismal interview

ZONE CONFERENCE! It was a great time! I got to conduct it again, since we hosted, and it was just as nerve wracking! But lots of great "how-to's"! Lots of good info! We got to give a training, and it seems to have resonated well with the zone. We heard multiple references to it in the days afterwords. It was a great experience and great time! Lots of pictures! Lots of friends seen too!

MLC was a lot of fun! As of right now, for the month of October we have, as a mission, 46 people set with dates for baptism! And we will be helping with that number! We have never gotten more than 31 baptisms in our mission for any given month since President Chesnut has been here. So this month should be a huge step forward for us! We have caught the vision! We heard some great training's about leadership and how to get the work going in areas through Less-Actives. Saw tons of friends here!

I had the opportunity to go on exchanges with Elder Anderson in our area. The three of us, Elder Autrey, Elder Anderson, and I went up to Cold Springs and biked around for most of the day. We talked to every person that we could often turning around to talk to someone we passed. Nothing particularly major happened that day, but it was just a good day. It passed by quickly and let us see the how to's of missionary work. I spent a lot of time working with these two other Elders and teaching/showing them how to do missionary work on a bike, and in English. Elder Anderson said that "this has been the most productive day of my mission". And the reason for that, is that we talked to people. We gave invitations. We spread the truth to all those that would listen to us. And because of that, we were very effective.

We did meet this man on that exchange named Edward. An old trucker who kindly talked to us about trucking. Once we told him we were LDS, he said "well why didn't you say that earlier!". Of all the religions in the world, that is the only one he likes. The rest of them he says, "cause trouble and wars. But you Mormons take care of each other." He said that of all the church's in the world, he would only ever join ours. But he doesn't believe the Savior actually existed... Small problem right? He asked about the local meeting times and said that he might show up one day.

So Briawna passed her interview with President Perry, 1st counselor in the mission presidency. He invited me into the interview with them just before they started and he asked me some questions. How long I had been teaching her? How did we first meet her? My favorite thing about teaching her? It was a neat and unusual thing to do that! it allowed me to think back on this month or so of us teaching her and remember the different experiences. She has been waiting in our are for 3 years. Just no one ever found her. She is really described as someone "who [is] kept only from the truth because [she] knew not where to find it". That was the coolest thing ever! She will be baptized this weekend!

Here are some pics to enjoy

I love all y'all and each y'all

Elder Miner