Week 13: Red hot testimony

Hey family,

Scripture of the week: Hymn 97.

So i'm starting my email now, but im gonna have to finish it later this afternoon, elder Chen and I are going to a place called franconia notch and going in the sky tram to the top of the mountain and going snow shoeing. A member of our ward runs it, so he is taking us up. It should be super fun and super duper wicked cold.

 

The weeks sure do fly by somedays seem soooo slow, and then before you know it its another Monday. Yesterday something really awesome happened at church. So you remember the couple that we have dinner with every friday night? the gorhams. Well they came to church yesterday. First time in a loooooooooooooooong time it was so cool to see them there i was so happy.

 

I was missing grandmas dinner yesterday, i didnt get any st pat food, but i did where my green flower tie that i bought on sale a few weeks ago. We did at least have diinner with a family, but it was thai food not irish food.

So saturday we had our special meeting with the apostle. It was for the Manchester and Boston missions only. It was in boston, but only missionaries within an hour and a half got to be there in person s we wtched it ia broadcast. But it was still super super awesome. Elder Ballard was the special guest, and he was accompanied by brother christainsen and brother eyring both members of the 70. The spirit in that meeting was sooooooo strong it was great. He also did a training with the bishops and stake presidents later that day. What was really neat is everything we planed to talk to the ward council about got broughtup by the bishop. thats what i call the spirit working together.

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Ok I am finally back to a computer. We spent longer with brother Dietline than we thought we would, we got there and he asked if we would help him split some wood, so we dad that for a couple hours. We split a 200 year old maple tree, it was wicked big.

then he took us to franconia notch and we rode that tram to the top of the mountain and snow shoed around and took some wicked pictures, ill send some of them here in a sec.

 

Not too much to report this week, so sorry the email is a bit shorter than usual. Doesnt mean i love you all any less. Im going to try to write back all my hand written letters that i have tonight after dinner with the gregs, but if i dont get to them i am sooo sorry.

This is my last week with elder chen, and we are going to work super hard, we have made a goal to find at least one new investigator this week, which in vermont is a wicked big deal.

The Vermonters have been commenting on how fast i have picked up the vermont words such as wicked and geezum, i dont know if its a good thing or not, but o well i think it is probably here to stay.

I hope you all know that i have a red hot testimony of this Gospel. Jesus is the savior and the Son of god, the gospel was restored through Joseph Smith, and by the power of God he did translate the Book of Mormon, and every last word in that book is true. Someone asked me the other day how i could poissibly believe every word in the book, and i just said well cause every word in that book is the word of god. Thomas Monson is a living prophet of God, and through the atonement we can all be made whole. I never quite understood the atonement till i got out here and have the opportunity to teach about it everyday. always remember that when you are having a bad day say aprayer and ask for help and i can promise you the day will go better.

 

Well i wish i had more time, but alas i do not, so i hope all continues to go well out wast. Remember that someone in vermont loves you. We are very privileged to have the gospel in our lives so never take it for granted.

Love ya bunches.

Elder Quinton J. Zilles

Over and out