Well, the end of another transfer is coming up already, so I will find out this Saturday if I'm going to be staying in the same ward or moving on somewhere else. There's a pretty good chance that I'm going to be staying in Crescent Valley for another transfer though. We had a pretty awesome week this last week with Zion's Camp as well as with our regular missionary work and such.
Zion's Camp is this church campsite thing in the outskirts of our zone where surrounding stakes will do girls camps and stuff. Our mission president took the mission out there for a day (actually, half the mission each day), and we had some ropes course type activities that turned into scripture object lesson things. So, for example, there was this one activity where there was a wall that was probably about 10 feet tall, and we had to get all 18 people in our group over the wall, but everyone can only use 1 hand, and no talking allowed. And so we had to use teamwork and creativity to do these things. Anyway, we did a bunch of those type of things, and talked about the scriptures and stuff like that. And then we had dinner together, and President and Sister Weaver talked about car safety for a while, and then we had a testimony meeting together. And so we had a pretty good time. There were 107 missionaries each day, so we have a lot of missionaries in the mission.
On Sunday we finally got Aaric to come to church. That was pretty awesome. He grew up in the church, but he hasn't really been since he had an ugly divorce, so he was pretty nervous about coming back, but he met a bunch of awesome people, and actually contributed in gospel principles class, and he's planning on coming back next week, so that was pretty exciting for us. It is really hard to find new investigators in this area, so a lot of the work we do is with less-actives, but that is just as rewarding as working with non-members. We also got invited out to dinner by this one part member family in the ward who has not been out to church in quite some time either. He is a member, but his wife is not. And they recently told us that they have a goal of getting married in the temple, and so we are going to help them work towards that, and the first step is to get her to baptism, so we're excited to start working with them too.
I can't remember if I've mentioned this previously or not, but there is a stake center being built in our area right now, and we are going to be moving into it in the middle of November, and it's a pretty big deal in our area, because it's the biggest building for a couple of miles around. So it's been really exciting to watch it go up, and people ask us about it all the time when we go tracting. Because of boundary changes in our stake over the last many years, we haven't had a real stake center in a while, but we're excited to have one. And it is a 25 minute drive to the church building we are currently going to, so it is such a blessing to have beautiful church buildings to meet in that are near your home. I'm pretty sure this is the farthest I have ever lived from a church building. So that is going to be really nice when it's finished, if I'm still around this area.
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