Scripture of the week, i have multiple, so just hold on and buckle up.
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Ill get you details from the week after i do the important stuff.
So the first scripture is D&C 50:40-42, 44. I found this scripture while i was preparing my last article to put in the mission news letter, and it just really touched me. The Savior knows each of us personally, he knows where we are in life, and what we need and as it says in that scripture none will be lost to him.
The next one is D&C 20:14 This is talking about the Book of Mormon, and in essence it says that we were given the Book of Mormon to help us gain eternal life. and last but not least Mosiah 16:6-8 this is talking about the savior, it is a prophecy, so that of course means that at the time it was written the savior had not yet come, but that is what i love so much about it, is the way it is written if not careful you may think he had already come, but he had not, so to me that just shows the faith that they had that he would come as was promised. That is my testimony today, is he will come again. We have been promised that he will, and he will always keep his promises. We dont know when it will be, but what i do know is that when he comes it will be a glorious day, as we live the gospel we will be prepared for his coming. It will be amazing.
Ok now the stuff you all really want to know.....
So my companion is Elder Adams, he is from Los Cruses new mexico. So it is great being here in SO RO. Really is just a dream come true. The lord is blessing me so much my last two transfers, not only do i get to finish my mission in the land of Joseph, but this ward is full of dairy farmers, and dairy farmers have dairy farmer friends, so that means when i go talk to the members about cows, they then say "oh we should send you to see so and so you will have a great connection with them". The lord has allowed me to be in a place where i get to combine the two of the things i love most, the Gospel and Cows, it doesnt get much better than that.
Opening a new area is an adventure that is for sure. We dont have any investigators, so we have just been hitting the pavement, Cause we are here to find people. We have done some service for some members and that has been a good way to start to get to know them. Saturday we helped paint a members house, the outside of it. The day before that we helped John throw hay, that was just refreshing. John is a dairy farmer that i helped milk when i was here on exchange at the beginning of my mission, he is less active but is one of my main projects for while i am here. When we first went to see him he recognized me and was really excited to have me back in the area, itll be great to work with him.
Yesterday we got a crash course on giving tours at the JSM, and then 2 minutes later we were giving tours, so that was a party. As far as i can tell now, we will spend about three days a week giving tours for a few hours, its pretty neat to just get to tell the Story of the Prophet over and over. Hopefully someday we can come back here as a family, and i will give you all a tour of this place that i have truly come to love so much, and will grow to love more and more over the next weeks of my mission. So grateful to be serving here.
Leaving Manchester was alot harder than i thought it was going to be, not the city itself, but i really miss my officce staff, they all became such great friends and it was hard to leave them. even though ill see them again, just was hard. The hardest thing was leaving President. When i gave him a hug after transfer meeting, he just started to cry and wouldnt let go. then in his President Stoker cry talk he said "Thank you for everything you have done, thank you for your service, i love you."
Telling Elder Wells, Vanderholm, and Davis goodbye was pretty hard as well. Especially Elder Wells. Got an email from him today though and he seems to be adjusting back to life ok. He is already back to welding and breaking horses. Really miss that kid though.
So youll be pretty excited to hear who is in my new district..... In my district i have Rutland, Middlebury, and the SO RO Sisters, in rutland we have Elder Gale and..... wait for it ELDER GUINN. I get to finish my mission with my first son in my district, such a privilege. So cool we both came back to Vermont at the same time. Its gonna be great. Also in the district is Elder Butters, Elder Smith, Sister Sumsion, and sister Erekson. Its a good district. Well i am about out of time so i best get running, but before i go i have a story for you to help you see that i am still me...
We were walking through a small town called Bethel and walked past a park and i saw two teenagers making out. So being me, i thought im gonna go talk to them. So as i walked over there i remembered that in my bag i have a stack of chastity pamphlets that i keep for moments just like this, so i get over there and talk to them, they werent interested in the gospel at all, but i asked if i could still leave a pamphlet, they said yes. So what did i do? i gave them a chastity pamphlet is was great. I love being me.
Today we are going to Visit Billings farm. Pretty good Jersey herd that dad should know about.
Have a fantastic conference week cant wait to talk about it next week
Love you all
Hold to the Rod
Elder Quinton J. Zilles
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