Hey yall!
Surprise Surprise,
another great week here in the Round Rock Ward. Again, this week flew by
and I cant believe we are already almost through June. This week we had
some awesome miracles and worked extremely hard. The Texas heat is
coming down STRONG right now and we are pushing through it.
The
highlight of the week was definitely Tuesday when we had our Zone
Conference. Because of recent changes to our Covid precautions we were
able to finally have another multi-zone conference, something we have
only done one other time as a mission (the Christmas Conference). Our
Zone Conference featured our zone (the Mighty Round Rock East Zone),
Round Rock Zone, and Austin Zone. We had some wonderful discussion and
thoughts shared from our mission leadership, had some lunch, and had a
good time seeing missionaries we haven't seen very often.
One
thing covered in our Zone Conference was a new initiative being
implemented in the mission to teach all families the principles of Love,
Share, and Invite, principles to sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ. We
want all members to be equipped with these skills so that they can be
greater lights in the lives of those around them and help others taste
the joy of the gospel that they have enjoyed for so long. We have shared
these principles a couple times already and it's great to see how eager
they are to get involved spreading the gospel.
This
week we started teaching English to a young family from Ecuador. They
are pretty concerned because they don't know much English and really
need it to excel in their job and schooling. We plan on teaching them
weekly as well as teaching them comforting truths of the gospel.
Teaching English has been one of the skills I have enjoyed learning most
on my mission and so I am excited to be able to help them out a little
bit as well.
We also
dropped some cookies off to some members in the ward that we haven't
gotten to meet yet and have family members who aren't part of the
church. We have been trying pretty hard to get to know them but haven't
had too much success. Luckily cookies have magical powers and were able
to get us into some doors finally. We had some great conversations and
were able to bring the spirit into their homes. We are planting lots of
seeds with a lot of these families and are hoping that it can bloom into
something great!
So
that's the week! We also had some good lessons with some friends of ours
that went well and we continue to look for even more people to teach
the gospel of Jesus Christ. One scripture that has been on my mind a lot
this week is 1 Nephi 11:17 that says, "And I said unto him: I know that
[God] loveth his children; nevertheless I do not know the meaning of
all things". God loves you! He cares about you! He knows you and wants
you to be happy. He wants to hear from you! Don't forget to talk with
your Father in Heaven this week:).
Love and miss you all!
Elder Anderson
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