So this week was a ton of fun and some really good things happened!
We had zone conference this week! Usually one of the assistants conducts the meeting, but President Chesnut asked me to do it instead this week. I was so terrified of doing that! Our zone conference was with the Sparks zone which is the second largest zone in the mission. So a lot of people that I know and love. And for some reason that terrified me. Which was not good. Fortunately the second training of the conference was about how Faith and Fear cannot exist together. That really helped me get over my nerves! Our training that we gave about effective planning seemed to go well! We told them essentially that "when you aren't there, Satan is. So make sure your plans keep him away!"
I got to go on exchanges with Elder Werner out here in his area. We served around each other in Spring Creek. He is a super good elder and he goes home next transfer. But he isn't showing signs of cracking!
On our exchange our comps called us about a raging wildfire in the middle of our area....They were trapped in the cold springs Valley because it blocked the free way... So we got to hurry up and see if we could do anything from the stead valley. It was on the mountain between these two valleys. We couldn't really do anything to help. miraculously no one got hurt and no houses got burned down. But it was super close! It was about 2 miles from our house. now the mountain is black... It got super smokey and ash started to fall from the sky. It was really odd and I think it gave us an idea of the second coming. The Sun changed colors and we couldn't see much around us because of the smoke
And Chris Hammond now has a baptismal date! August 5! He has come to church 3 weeks in a row now, and reads the Book of Mormon every single day!! So cool to see him take steps in his life toward a better world. We taught him the restoration on Monday in a very similar way to how we taught Natalie. He used to worship pagan gods..... but now he knows the truth, and is pushing forward!
Well I love all y'all and each y'all!
Elder Miner
A miracle from our exchange:We got to teach a non-member who had attended girls camp with her friend. Her name is Natalie. The whole day leading up to this, Elder Werner and I had been talking about the Vision to Baptize and what that meant. We were super pumped to go and teach this girl the Restoration of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. The whole time we just focused on the fact that you cannot be saved unless you follow the Gospel. Focusing even more heavily on the fact that our sins make us unclean, and baptism is the only way to fix that problem. We said the word baptism, or baptize over a dozen times in about a 25 minute lesson. When we recited the First vision to her, her face lit up and she said "That's so cool!" She actually understood it. That was the crazy part! We testified of restored priesthood power and committed her to be baptized. She was so excited to say yes! her friend couldn't believe that she said yes. When we gave Natalie her own copy of the Book of Mormon she just about freaked out because she was so excited to find out if this is all true. She wants it to be true. She has been wanting to be baptized for a long time now. All we had to do was extend the invitation. The vision is real, and is coming alive in the Holy High Deserts.
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| Elder Miner and Elder Jensen |
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