This is Jarron...he is 8; we
taught his family, and he got baptized last week with the other 8
year old stake baptisms. His family will be on the road to the
temple!
Yesterday we had MLC (a new version of zlc with the sisters
involved). We had a round robin with three different trainings from some zone
leaders. We were trained on retaining converts, using the scriptures, and
planning. The idea is we receive those and then bring them back to our zones in
a zone study this week. So that's what we will do along with Sister Noel (our
STL in our zone). We also had our accounting on our zones goals and goals for
next month. Our zone set a goal of 10 and had 8 baptisms, so we set another
goal of ten for next month. Things are accelerating, and missionaries are
picking it up, so I really think it'll happen this month. Lots of good things
are happening in the zone.
And of course there are good things happening in West Point as well.
We haven't picked up anyone new to teach; still just trying to get people to
squeeze us into their schedule. I think I have finally narrowed down what I
have been talking about the past few weeks. I think I just want to be more
diligent, because we don't really know what to do during the day. So I want to
feel overwhelmed, but right now we feel kind of stuck in nightly planning about
what to do the next day. It is a good thing, because it gives me a chance to be
a better planner which I will need once I get home and have nothing to do to
feel productive and will have to do the best with what I have.
I am really working on love. I need to have more love for the people
I teach. I mean, of course I do love them, but I just have room to grow. I hope
to end my mission more lost in the work than I ever have been rather than
slowing down to the finish line. I think the key to doing that is love, and
that's what I am pushing for.
