This week was crazy. We've been packing up and moving apartments. That was the first crazy thing about this week. It took a whole day and a half to move apartments. That is a lot of time wasted. It's a very nice apartment though. There's light in it. There's space to walk around. It's very clean too. All in all, it was a very nice and needed change. I still sleep on the couch for now, but transfers are coming up soon. It would totally be worth it to sleep on the couch again if I could keep Elder Palmer and Elder Tracy. I love them so much. Our numbers went down this week because of it, and other things, but we will do better next week.
Other things that were crazy and stopped us from doing so well this week... everyone here has the flu. It's ben going around like crazy. He had tons of lessons set up that got cancelled due to the flu. We hadn't been able to meet up with Tanya all week because it's been going around in her family. Now she has it. Stupid adversary! Attacking the bodies of the prepared and elect. This next week everyone should be over it. That will be nice.
We totally had a flood. Well, Texas is set up so it doesn't flood but this is as close as I have ever been. When it rains here, it can rain pretty hard. All the streets were like a river. We even drove past a house that had over 2 feet of water backed up into the yard. There was so much pressure on it that the fence fell over. All of this happened in about half an hour. An hour later, it was completely sunny again. I love the rain.
New news. I am once again without a ward mission leader. It's happened in every single one of my areas except UC. I think President is just sending me to areas to get the new ward mission leader off to a good start. Not really, but it happened in 4 of my 5 areas. Our ward mission leader was called to be 2nd counselor in the Bishop Brick (yes, Nathan really wrote Bishop Brick. lol.) The thing about this ward is that everyone is so awesome that we will have a great one to replace him. There is solid leadership in this ward. It's the best I've been in so far. It's known through out the mission for it's solid members.
Conference took upa ton of time. It was so worth it. But it added to our numbers problem. We were able to get a ton of people to watch it though. There were some powerful talks. I cane to understand that becoming a ZL is like becoming a father and that it's just training me to be a good dad. A lot of the leadership skills I'm learning now will help me for that... it's the same skills. Having a family is a leadership calling. Fun, huh?
You'll never guess what I just did. Are you ready for this? I went and held a piece of the original manuscript of the Book of Mormon. Isn't that so cool? A member in our ward has a piece of it. I held a piece of paper that had to, at some point, been held by the prophet Joseph Smith. Isn't that cool? She went and got it authenticated. It was part of Alma 60. It was scripted by Oliver Cowdry. It felt like a dream. So unreal. Anyway, it was an amazing experience.
We also went to ZLC this wek. There was nothing new about this one, but it was still a blast. Tomorrow is stewardships. That's where we go and tell president everything we think should happen in the zone. I'll tell what it's like later.
I have a true love for the Lord and his Restored Gospel. My testimony has grown in sharing it. The Lord doesn't need me to share my testimony, but he has given me the chance to do so my testimony could grow. I know that true happiness comes from families, and we can only enjoy those blessings by obedience to the Lord's gospel.
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