Week 90: He will always put you exactly where he needs you

Hello Family,

Scripture of the week: D&C29:4-5, 31:3

Well, its sounds like its been an eventful week on the home front. Sounds like a good one for the most part. Im grateful to hear the good news with grandma. Best get her some protein shakes and Peanut Butter and Jelly sandwiches so she can gain some weight. That worked so well for me.... NOT! 

Looks like the Jr show was a success. Vanity looks like she came together pretty well. You know your little sister has grown aton since youve been on your mission when the cows no longer make her look short. I cant believe how grown up she is. The new barn looks very nice. Good news is it will still be there next year and every year after that so i will get to spend plenty of time in it. The high roof will make it pretty difficult to hang our spider from, but i suppose we will just have to find a way to make it work, i bet dad is glad the roof doesnt allow for hanging spiders now. Looks like you guys made pedigree boards and everything. I love it, so awesome. I have loved working with Wade, but there is definitely something really special when we put together a string and just rough it as a family, something i am really looking forward to next show season. Hopefully we can get the big hitters up and running for next season.  Mom it sounds like they have been keeping you on the road plenty, but just know that it is so appreciated all that you do for us, it really is. Sounds like you have driven almost as much as me this week. All in all sounds like it was a good week. Who was the judge? i dont recognize him. Look forward to hearing how the open show goes, hopefully the minister calf does better today, thatd be pretty sweet to get 4 out of her. Who is she out of again? i should know these things, but yall understand. 

That is so cool that Alex got his wish granted. That is one special little kid, one special family for that matter. i got an amazing letter from Lori a few weeks ago, just havent had time to reply to it. Hopefully i get time one of these next weeks before it is too late. 

Thank you for the package from grandma, i wrote her a quick thank you this morning before we headed over here to the office. She takes pretty great care of me. 

So this week was just great. The weather was gorgeous all week, so that meant that there were tons of people out and about, so we got to talk to people out the wazoo. We started our week in Gardiner, which is where Elder Wells is, so i got to work with Elder Wells, that was great, it was just like we never got split up, we just picked up where we left off. He is doing really well considering the fact that he goes home in two weeks. We then worked in Augusta, then Damariscotta. While in Damariscotta we went to a small tourist town called Booth Bay Harbor and did some street contacting. That place was hustlin'. got some picture of the ocean that i will send your way.

After Damariscotta we were in Yarmouth, and had a fantastic exchange. I worked with an Elder Phillips, he is from Rexburg, and is just a sold kid, we saw many miracles on exchange. One that really stands out happened with a man named Kevin. I dont remember his last name so i have just started to refer to him as Kevin Bacon. No he doesnt look anything like Kevin Bacon, but it sounds good. But anyway we met Kevin Bacon on the street and he really wasnt  all that interested, but we left him with a mormon.org card. Two hours later we received a church head quarters referral for a man named Kevin. We thought "could it be?" sure enough it was. kevin had went home and checked out mormon.org, and decided he was interested so he referred himself. That doesnt happen very often so its pretty cool. This happened on thursday and the elders in yarmouth have already taught him twice since then. If the lord knows you will talk to them, he will place the prepared in your path. After Yarmouth we headed to Saco, where i had the opportunity to work with another former companion, Elder Davis who also goes home in two weeks. He is doing well as well. While in Saco Elder Walker and i decided to go for our morning run on the beach. It was pretty sweet running in the sand bare foot. i have pictures of it as well. All in all just a great week of exchanges. 

We got home and had planning meeting with President and started planning for Zone Conference with Elder Wilson. He will be here week 6, 17 18 and 19 of this month. Im excited for it, but also will be glad when it is over, as it is very stressful here in the office preparing for a general authority to come. But all will be fine. 

We ended the week with a great Sabbath day. Church is always such a great finish and start to a week. i just love it. I love fast sundays. 

So last night Elder Walker and i were sitting here in the office prepping the transfer board and we got a call from Elder Barnes and Elder Harrington, two of the elders serving in manchester. They asked us if we had a Coke. We thought "well that is a weird question". So we asked why and they proceeded to tell us that Elder Barnes has a small esophagus and he had a piece of roast lodged in his throat, and this has happened before and Coke helps to dislodge it. (The acid from the coke probably eats it away just like it eats away your body). So the ox being in the mire we ran to the store and got Elder Barnes a Coke (these elders are in a walking area so they have no car) so we take him the coke, and it is just not helping so we call the mission dr and he tells us to take him to the ER. So we did and sat there for 3 hours before they finally got him in. By this time it was 10 so we left them there and headed home, now this morning i have not heard what happened with Elder Barnes yet, so this story will be continued next week. 

But wait there is more... we were sitting in the waiting room and Sister Hughes a member from the Bedford ward comes up and says "Elder Zilles im so glad you  are here, Brother Hughes is here and needs a blessing". I guess Bro. Hughes was having weird chest pains so he was in to get that checked out. So we gave Bro. Hughes a blessing, dont know what happened with that story either so that will continue later as well. I just thought it was pretty cool that the lord had placed us where he needed us for more than one reason. If you are doing the right thing, he will always put you exactly where he needs you. 

Hold to the Rod

Love ya 

Elder Zilles

Oh almost forgot, this week we have leadership training, then wednesday we are working in concord NH, thursday Somersworth NH, then friday through sunday here in the office prepping for transfers and the general authority. love you all