Letter #82

Transfer calls came this last week, and Elder Bradshaw and I will be staying together in Orchard Heights for another transfer.  Our whole entire district is staying the same, which is pretty unusual, but I like everyone we have right now, so I'm not that disappointed about it.  And since I'm staying in this area for another transfer with my same companion, there is a pretty good chance that this might be my last area, which is super wild.  I'm kinda planning on staying here for that whole time now.  This week has been up and down a lot.  Our investigators have been not wanting to keep commitments, which is always annoying, because we know how much happier they would be if they would just come to church every week, and not go to the bar all the time, and sometimes they just can't do that.  But we've had some pretty great stuff this week too.

Ward conference was this week, which was a really cool experience.  It feels like we've hardly had any normal meetings this transfer, because we had 2 fast Sundays, stake conference, general conference, and ward conference in 6 weeks, which only leaves 1 Sunday for normal meetings.  Ward conference was great though.  Our bishop talked about 4 truths about God that has gotten him through challenges.  The first was that God is always good.  The second is that this world is fallen. The third is that God never forgets us, and the forth is that all things work for good for those who love God.  And he brought those together really well.  And then our Stake President gave a really awesome talk afterwards that I don't remember super well, because I don't have my notes with me right now.  It was really awesome though.

We have been trying to work more with our members in finding new people to teach here.  Our current game plan involves teaching the restoration to members, and then extending the invitation given by Elder Ballard 2 conferences ago to invite 1 person to take the missionary discussions in the next 3 months.  So we will see how that goes.  We had one of our first lessons last night, and it seemed like it went pretty well.  Afterward, we left a reading assignment from Preach My Gospel, because I guess our leaders want members reading out of that more too.  So hopefully that goes over well.

Well, I am almost out of time now, and I still have to email our mission president, so I'm going to end this here.  Love you guys, bye!