Week 48: "Let your shoes tell you the story of your mission"

Hello my dear family,

Scripture of the week: Ether 12:18

 

 I forgot my zone conference notes at the apartment so I don’t have anything to give you insights from it. Sorry I guess we will just have to go off of my memory, which can be scary at times. But anyways zone conference was incredible. The spirit was just absolutely amazing the whole time. The day started off with my interview with Giff Neilson. He is an incredible man. He had so many great stories to tell. He came in to interview me and was like "so why are we meeting today" I said "I don’t know you tell me" he had no idea either, so we just talked about the gospel and gospel leadership the whole time it was a really special treat. The whole conference was just so wonderful. I really wish i had my notes with me though. You know how I like quotes. There were so many good ones from this conference. Elder Neilson talked a lot about the atonement and the infinite power that it has in our lives. It was very neat. some of my favorite quotes from him were "You were not sent here to be AVERAGE" "Let your shoes tell the story of your mission" "let the savior be the editor of your life story" and there were so many other amazing ones that my bad memory can’t think of right now.

 

Elder Quinton Joseph, conversing with the Prophet Joseph

 

The more time I get to spend with president stoker the more I grow to love him. I loved president wilkey, but president stoker is definitely supposed to be in this mission at this time. He is a wonderful ,wonderful man.

 

we got the privilege of taking an investigator  on a tour to the JSM on Saturday, that was a very neat experience. The spirit is always so strong at that sacred place i hope you get to see it someday. We are teaching another family tonight so details about that will have to follow next week. But we did however find another awesome family, they referred themselves to us when they were in Hawaii a few weeks ago. They are the only non members in their family. We had dinner with them last night, and out of nowhere they asked “do you give blessings to non members?' We of course said yes. So it was a really neat experience.

 

Each Monday morning we have to do zone reports. And every other week we report to president. This week was president. At the end president was like "wow your zone has a lot of issues right now, I now see why you two were assigned to that zone". It’s pretty cool to have him say stuff like that but at the same time it’s no fun to have to do all of the dirty work in the zone. But somebody has got to do it and I’m not going to complain because this is where the lord has called me to serve at this time.

 

Good luck this week Pirates. I’ll have to make sure I wear my west side football shirt to do service on Saturday. Hope they all know they have people cheering for them all over the world. So cool. I hope they win this one for coach Eb.

 

 

Sure love you guys have a wonderful week

Hold to the rod

Elder Zilles