Week 92: Renew And Strengthen the bond between you and Heavenly Father

Hello my dear family,

Scripture of the week:1 Nephi 15:24

But anyways now onto the good stuff. It sounds like an eventful week on the homefront. Great to hear that Gram Norm is doing better, i hope she can continue to improve. Sad to hear about G and G Z. They will be in my prayers for sure. 

I will apologize up front, but this email will be short, i have some last minute changes to make to transfers. Stuff came up last night and we had to make some changes. 

Alright so it has truly been a great week. Elder and Sister Wilson were great. Our 3 zone conferences were fantastic and it was just a great week. The topic of conference was the Book of Mormon, so i really loved that. They taught us many ways that we can more effectively use the Book of Mormon in our teaching. Many things that i really look forward to applying in my new area as we get that place starting this week. 

Now onto what will happen this week. So today will be just nuts. We have 26 new missionaries coming in, so between getting them from the airport and everything else, my life is gonna be pretty crazy. But it will be great. Tomorrow is transfer meeting, and after transfer meeting my new comp and i will get in our brand new Chevy Cruze and we will head to SO RO. more details on SO RO will come next week as well. I am pretty stoked for the coming two transfers though. like you said, VERMONT FOR LIFE. Heck yeah. 

So my AP replacement is someone you should know, as he was in my room in the MTC. A good friend of mine, Elder Lund. He will do a great job and i cant think of anyone better to replace me. Funny part is that he and Elder Walker were comps just a few months ago. Itll be great though. 

So i want to share something with you that i have done alot of pondering praying and studying on as of late. That is this.... As i have studied, pondered and prayed, i have come to believe that all problems, such as depression, anxiety, low self esteem what ever you want to call it, all of those things can be countered by a renewed/increased knowledge of who we are as children of our Heavenly Father. As we renew/increase that knowledge all things come to work out better for us. That link, or bond between us and Heavenly Father is the most important thing we can have while here on this earth. That is one reason the Book of Mormon is so powerful, is that it combined with PRAYER helps us to renew and strengthen that bond with our Heavenly Father. So my invitation to all this week is to have you all do all that you need to do to renew and strengthen the bond between you and Heavenly Father. 

I love you all so much. Sorry for the short email. More to come next week.

love you 

Hold to the Rod

Elder Zilles