I got to go to the temple this week. That's usually a sign of a good week. I spent an awfully long time in the Celestial Room. I've had a lot of static in my head lately.
Wednesday we were on exchanges with the APs and I got to spend the whole day with my old companion from Murrieta. That was fun. And while I was on exchanges, I somehow ran into my best friend from MoVal. It just so happened that we were both on exchanges on the same day, and his district leader was giving a baptismal interview to somebody the APs were teaching. So we got to catch up and it was pretty nice.
On Thursday I held a puppy and saw a midget riding a bike. That made it an awesome day in and of itself.
We're still working the ward list a lot, and now the ward council started pushing the ward mission process, which is a Very Good Thing(TM). Still not a whole lot of fruit from those efforts. BUT we had a fantastic lesson on Monday with a friend of a member in that member's home. She was sick for the next lesson but I'm hoping to teach her again soon. This is how missionary work is most effective! The members find them and provide support for them while we teach and handle the concerns that they may have with joining the church. It's like it's inspired by a prophet of God or something.
The elders and sisters in my zone are doing really really well, even better than the months prior. We didn't baptize a whole lot in February, but the numbers all went up and are staying up after this past transfer, and that tells me that the new companionships are working hard and that the baptisms will come if they continue to put forth that new effort. I'm looking forward to training them again on Friday and meeting with the rest of the leadership on Thursday. Being a zone leader isn't all that bad, I don't think.
I had the opportunity to give five priesthood blessings this week, yes FIVE. And while the first one was to a sister missionary for her headaches and didn't strike me as super special, the other three all hit me really, really hard. I gave a blessing to two Elders and one Sister in my zone that are struggling with the work in one way or another, and all of them I was amazed at the things that came out of my mouth. Then last night, we dropped by a member at 8:30pm (I was recovering from a really frustrating parking lot bible bash and just went with it instead of fighting it, thank goodness) and it was miraculous. "Oh hey, good timing, we just got done reading our scriptures and were thinking about a friend of ours that needs the gospel." We gave them some missionary tools and scriptures for the husband to use on his friend, and then gave a blessing to the wife that just blew me away. It was wonderful. How grateful I am for the opportunity to speak on the Lord's behalf while blessing his beloved children. And how humbling it is that these missionaries look up to me.
Keep the faith, guys. The world will know one day that what we are teaching is true, and I want to be known as one of the valiant ones.
Love you tons.
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