Hola mi familia,
Scripture of the week: 1
Timothy 4:19
Oh it is so great to
hear from you guys. This week has probably felt like the longest week of my
mission so far. Its strange because its not like i am unhappy or anything it
just felt soooo long. My companion and i were talking the other night and i was
like this is so weird i am more tired than i have ever been in my entire life
im absolutley exhausted but yet i am so incredibly happy. Missionary life is
the bomb.
Well im being my
self and dragging this on before i tell you where i am baha. Are you sick of it
yet? should i tell you now? ok fine here it goes. I can almost guarantee that
none of you would have guessed it. WEll Elder Zilles is now serving in NEWPORT
VERMONT. Yes as in the newport where i have been on exchange multiple times,
yes the same newport that is one area away from lyndon. Can you believe it? i
got transferred one area away from lyndon. And the even crazier part about this
whole thing is the fact that i am the District leader over the district i have
spent my whole mission in, that also means i get to go back to my home town of
lyndon once a week for district meeting. And this week i am going on exchange
in lyndon so its pretty much going to be just like i never left. Oh and my
companion is Elder Uhl. Yup the same elder uhl that was elder walkers
companion. Im not gonna lie when i first found out i was going to newport, i
was quite upset. I was so looking forward to being able to see new parts of the
mission and get to meet new missionaries and new people. But i decided
"Elder Zilles you need to get over this and prepare to serve the people of
newport to the best of your abilities". So i started praying that Heavenly
father would help me to start to develop charity for these wonderful people. Well all i can say is prayers are answered.
Yesterday i got
called on to talk in sacrament out of the blue, and while i was up there
looking into the eyes of the members of the newport branch i could really feel
myself starting to love them. It will take time but i truly am already starting
to love these people. Lots of change has recently happened here in newport,
last week they got a new branch president. This week i got here, and our area
also got split so now there is sisters as well. So essentially elder uhl and i
are opening a new area, cause everywhere they used to work majority of the time
is now in the sisters area. So needless to say, we knocked on more doors this
week than i have in a long time.
My new address is 71 eastern ave. #3 Newport
Vermont 05855.
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| The Jablonski's and Zack |
So i would love to tell
you all about my new investigator pool, but i really dont know any of them yet,
so that information will have to follow in coming weeks emails.
Yes i did get to go to
that meeting last night. We watched it here at 6 so 4 your time. I am not going
to lie it was the most spiritual meeting i have ever been too. the whole two
hours i had spiritual goose bumps. It was so incredible. One of the coolest
parts was they showed president stoker on the screen for about 5 seconds. I
cant wait to meet him. He gets here the 27th thats this thursday, and i dont get to meet him till i think the 6th of july. But i am sure he will be great. They mentioned
in that meeting that we as missionaries will soon be using facebook and other
online things to teach the gospel, so that will be interesting to see how that
all works.
It sounds like
everything back home is going so well. I am sorry that thor is still causing
issues. But i am so appreciative of you not giving up on him. I really cant
wait to have my dogs again, they are some of the things i miss the most.
Speaking of dogs, on my 2nd day here in newport elder uhl and i had a bit of a
run in with two different PACKS of dogs. I say packs because they literally
were packs. The first incident we walked up a long driveway to visit some less
actives, when we got to the house 10 dogs came out. Not an exaggeration there
literally were 10. They all came at us and were biting barking and nipping at
us. I didnt know what to do so i just started kicking left and right, but they
would not back off so we finally just took off running it was ridiculous, but
now its just really fun to look back and laugh at. Second incident we were
tracting and a pack of 4 dogs came at us, the owner called them back and didnt
even appologize he just walked away.
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| The Gregory's Saying Goodbye |
I thought you might like
to know what i do as a district leader. So it seems like i am always on the
phone. Before at night when we got home we would plan and then have till 1030
to do what ever, but not anymore. We get home and i have phone calls to make
almost everynight. But its awesome i love it. I also am in charge of teaching
the lesson every week at district meeting, and conducting exchanges, its going
to be great. My district consists of Me and elder uhl, Sisters Deters and
Dixon, in newport 2. Sisters Cowley and jackman in littleton, and Elder Chapman
and elder guinn in lyndon. Sister Dixon and sister jackman are both new
missionaries, so its fun to get to be part of there training.
well i think thats all i
have for today sure do love you guys.
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| Elder Q, and Elder Uhl...JK just some camels...haha |
Elder Zilles
Plow to the end
Ps. Prayers are
answered. Ive been praying about going to a chiropractor, and yesterday when i
spoke in sacrament i shared about my back injury and how it helped me know my
savior is there for me. After sacrament a lady came up to me and said here is
my number my husband and i are chiropractors call any time for an appointment
and we will fix you up free of charge, i almost started to cry i was so happy!
prayers are answered!!!!
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