November 2nd, 2016

This week has been pretty eventful! So on Friday we had specialized zone training. This is the one that President Gubler and the assistants are in charge of and me and Elder Persicke don't have to do anything. Or so we thought. So the zone training was in Crawley which is a 45 min drive from us so we woke up at 6 to get ready and on the road early and at about 6:45 Elder Persicke realized that we had no clue who was going to make lunch for the whole zone... we made a frantic call to the assistants and asked if they set up for someone to make lunch. They laughed and said nope that's your responsibility. So we panicked a bit and then on the drive there I made a plan to make Chilli for everyone. There were 27 people there and I only had £20 in my wallet so we went to Asda and got as much food as we could buy for £20 then frantically went to the Crawley Elders' flat and made 2 massive pots of chilli and then we bought loads of day old bread rolls and the cheapest tortilla chips we could find haha but it was good and everyone liked haha

The zone training itself was amazing and we talked all about why we do missionary work. President taught us the doctrine of the answers to the 4 questions of the soul. Where did I come from? Why am I here? Where am I going? And who am I? We especially focused on "who am I" and learning the doctrine of the noble and great ones and what that means and the amazing potential we have. When we know who we are and what our potential is it changes our perspective on life and it changes what we do. 

We then had exchange with the assistants and it was really cool as I got to be with Elder Tunnicliffe who is from York and is a very good friend and we had some great chats and were able to help each other with different things we were working on. 

I love the friends I have made on the mission. Life long bonds of friendship come when you serve together as a missionary because the work you do is so hard and you are so focused on loving the Lord that it just becomes so easy to love those around you starting with the missionaries you serve with. 

Paul the guy we were teaching dropped us on Saturday after teaching him the Law of chastity. It was in of the most spiritual teaches of my mission but after he sent us a huge message and said he doesn't think he can change who he is and he can't live the law of chastity. We were pretty sad but the next day he said he felt like something was missing so we had another teach last night and the spirit was so strong and we got him back. It taught me the importance of the spirit in teaching and how it doesn't matter what we say or how we explain things. As long as the spirit is there then he will touch people's hearts and begin the change within them. He continues to change me.