This week was quite eventful! On Thursday we had a long zone conference where 5 zones (100 missionaries) gathered together and we were taught by President Kearon who is one of the 7 presidents of the 70. He just got called so this was his last speaking assignment as the Europe area president. He is an English convert and has spoke in conference a few times. He is such a genuine man and really connected with me. I loved how unorthodox he was in the way he spoke and even the things he taught us. They were real life things that really help. Something he said that I loved is, "Sometimes it's not useful to bathe in our own culture." Meaning mission and church culture. He laced all of his teaching with gratitude for our missionary service. He did such a good job at conveying his gratitude for the sacrifice that we have made as missionaries and for trials that we go through. He told us to not worry so much about ourselves and our abilities but just to work hard. I loved hearing him talk! A cool thing too is he invited Elder Aguiar and I up to the stand and we did a role play to him in front of all the missionaries and that was pretty fun! Haha the next day we had MLC with President Kearon as well. He gave us a lot of good training. It's weird to think that I will only have one more MLC. Time is almost gone...
As far as teaching goes we had a great week! A less-active we have been working with finally came to church for the first time in a long time. I think the key was I cooked him dinner! Sunday we messed up with our coordination and we accidentally planned 3 dinner appointments after church. One at 2:00 the next at 3:30 and the last at 6:00. Two of them were the same meal too haha. I was so painfully full of food. But an amazing miracle happened at the last DA. It was with the part-member family we are teaching Jenny the mum and Alex the son who is 15. Alex lives with his dad on Sundays so he hasn't been able to come to church because his dad is against it but we have been praying loads that his dad's heart will be softened so that when Alex asks if he can be baptized he will say yes. Well at dinner Alex told us that his dad gave him permission to be baptiszd!!!!!!!!!!!! How crazy is that. This brought so much joy to us and showed us that prayers really are answered! We are meeting with them this week to set a date.
Me and Elder Aguiar are doing so good and having loads of fun. Yesterday we ran another zone training/interview day at President Gubler's home. We trained them on some of the things President Kearon taught like not worrying about yourself and working hard then in unity working with members. I made lunch as always and I'm getting better and better at making food for 30 people. I hope that skill comes in handy one day. Maybe when I'm a grandpa and I have all the family over haha
Something I am always so grateful for on my mission is the opportunity I have to study the scriptures for such a long time with no other obligations getting in the way. And then having the rest of the day to apply what I have learned. This pattern of learning about Christ from the scriptures then applying that into how we act is such a powerful pattern that has filled my life with the love of Christ and helped bring a change into me heart. I love this gospel.
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