Week 78: The Silver Bullet

Hello Family,

Scripture of the week: Alma 48: 7-17

Well Happy late father’s day. Ooops I’m a bit of a slacker. I hope it was a fantastic day. It was a beautiful day here in the hamp so I hope it was the same back home. Sounds like all in all it was a good week on the home front.

 

I am happy to report that this week was much better than last week. Things here in Bedford are still just rolling right along. We found some more new investigators this week. I’m starting to feel pretty spoiled here with so many people. I don’t know what I will do when I have to adjust back to a booney area, where people don’t even exist. But whatever happens that is where I am meant to be.

 

So this week I was on exchange with an elder on the other side of Manchester. He is really really quiet as is his companion, so they struggle talking with people, which leads to a bit of a lack of people to teach. So I decided going into the exchange that we were just going to work our butts off and we were going to find them some people to teach. So that is exactly what we did. They are in a walking area, so we walked all day. We walked from one side of their area to the next and back. by the end of the day we had found them 15 potential investigators. That should be enough for them to work with for at least a couple of weeks. I hope that the elder I was with has now learned the value of talking with everybody that we see. Everyone always asks for the silver bullet in missionary work. there really isn’t one, but if there were something that was close to the silver bullet, it would be talking with everyone and being wicked bold.

 

The coolest experience from this week happened just last night. We met a guy on the street and taught him the restoration. He has had a rough life, like most whom we meet, but this guy seems different. As we taught he kept smiling. Well when we got to the first vision, he got the biggest smile on his face and was just totally on fire. We invited him to be baptized right there and he accepted the invitation without hesitation. It was just so amazing to see what the spirit of the first vision did for that man. The only down part is he lives in another area so we had to send his info on as a referral and won’t get to teach him anymore, but it was still just really neat.

 

An 8 year old in the ward was baptized yesterday, but the font wasn’t working, so guess who got to bucket water into the font? yup you are correct elder Holley and elder Zilles did. It was an interesting experience. Oh the memories of a mission.

Mom as far as your talk this week, you will know what to say. If there were one thing I want you to say it would be that Elder Zilles knows that Joseph smith is a prophet of god.

 

Well guys I sure do love you

Hope you have a fantastic week

Hold to the Rod

Elder Zilles