This talk by Richard G Scott was touched on in our Sunday
School class- I love it!
President Jordan talked about the Greeks and how when they
went to conquer an area of land, they got there and burned their ships. Because then the only way they could go was
to battle. He encouraged us to see what
our ships were- anything that distracts from the work- and see if it was worth
keeping or if you wanted to give it up to serve the Lord. [Mom- What ships are we willing to burn to
serve the Lord everyday of our lives- not just when serving missions?]
Zone Meetings are a smaller group- just the Zone- a few
districts and the Zone Leaders give the training. Those are held every another transfer. On those transfers we have interviews with
the President. On the opposite
transfers, we have Zone Conferences- when 2 or 3 Zones get together and we are
taught by the President and his Assistants.
That way we are able to see the President at least one every transfer.
We spend at least a couple hours each day studying the gospel. Here’s how I am marking my scriptures and
have them set up to help in teaching the gospel to others.
This week we met with one of our investigators and read
Joseph Smith History 11-19 about the first vision. The spirit was there. We decided to fast to find new investigators
and to help this investigator also. We
followed up with the investigator and he said he had received an answer to his
prayer. He was encouraged to continue
learning more about the gospel. It was
great! He is going to continue learning
more and continuing to pray.
Our other investigator is doing great as well. We have a good discussion on the
apostasy. I was extremely grateful for
the knowledge that I had so I could help him understand it. Hopefully we will invite him to be baptized
this week.
Crazy to finally hear about all of the snow/rain at home, it’s
been the wettest winter they have had here in a long time. It’s flooding in the
South London Mission a lot. We were
walking by a playground the other day and it was flooded, so they couldn’t play
in most of it. But there were some kids
playing on it acting like they were alligators it in that were going to get
them. It was funny! Since I been here I
have seen a lot of different styles of irrigation boots, polka dots and striped
all colors. I think I may bring home
some nice pink ones to the farm, so that no one will take them …. Haha probably not!
[Mom- I had attended Roots Tech and heard a speaker-
Stephanie Nielsen. I told him about the
story and he remembered her from Elder Holland’s conference talk as well. Link
to her story from Roots Tech. http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865596105/Utah-blogger-Stephanie-Nielsen-promised-God-she-would-share-her-story-of-healing-faith-and.html ] Truly
people can get through anything if they just work hard enough and have the
support that they need.
Other than that nothing too much this week- thanks for all
the prayers you have sent out in my behalf!
Love you all much!
Elder Stevenson
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