This was a pretty long week
but rather rewarding at the same time. Tuesday we had a zone conference down in
Pasco so we had to get up at way-too-early in the morning to drive down for the
car inspections at 8 that preceded the conference itself at 9. As per the norm,
the conference itself went rather long but it was all great stuff. We received
some great instruction of a few new things to try to help take us to the next
level of missionary work. I feel as though our mission president is extremely
pleased with where the mission is at right now and so he is able to help lift
us up out of the basics of missionary work and start showing us what the next
step is to continue increasing in our abilities as missionaries and become even
more fruitful. We also had a break in the middle for a 30-minute rebuke fest from the mission president's wife
essentially telling us all we are getting too fat and need to start eating
healthier. I'm sure that’s a bit over exaggerated from what she intended but that’s
what I got from it. Maybe I need to lay back on the tacos and start running
more....
Anyways afterwards I went on
an exchange with one of the assistants and stayed down in his area and since
they live with the Kennewick zone leaders I was able to see a lot of my friends
from last transfer. That was nice being able to see them all again and
reminisce about the fun memories together coupled with how investigators are
doing. But the next day we left and went on our way back to Othello for a week
of almost solid finding. Since we have had a lot of success with baptisms
recently we were busy teaching and not too busy finding so we put our shoulder
to the wheel as it were and went to work. We were able to apply the principles
we learned the day before and saw tons of small miracles the entire week. We
found more investigators than ever before in my entire mission and saw lots of
cool miracles in other areas as we were blessed for our diligence. Notably the
greatest miracle from that was the lessons with our recent converts. All three
of them have taken hold of the gospel and truly begun to apply it in their
lives. Their understanding of gospel concepts and principles is astounding.
Sweet is the peace the gospel brings into families lives. The most marked
difference was found in the family of the 10 year old child baptized a few
weeks prior. About 2.5 months ago when the teaching process began, the parents
had no testimony whatsoever of the gospel (hence why they weren't going to
church and their son didn't get baptized at 8). But as we continued on with the
teaching process, the Spirit worked on them like none other. Friday night in a
lesson with them, we started off with a scripture about prayer and by the end
of the lesson, the mom was talking about how the home felt so much different
(in a good way) now and how she is going to fast next week and get sealed as a
family one day. It was a great experience for us to see first-hand the amount
the restored gospel of Jesus Christ can help families and individuals not only
grow closer to each other but with our Heavenly Father as well.
The quote of the week doesn't
make any sense to me so I want to toss it out there and see if anyone has any
sliver of an idea about what it’s trying to teach. It was on a billboard in
town and says this:
"He who throws dirt loses ground."
Still trying to wrap my head
around it. I think I might be overthinking it. But anyways here is an actual
quote for you from zone conference this week. We were coming back (feeling
rather fat might I add) from the lesson from the President's wife about
nutrition and regrouping with some other groups that had gone out in breakout
sessions and as we were making small talk about it our President said:
"This morning we taught you how to have faith, and she just taught you to feel guilty."
We were able to apply the
faith principles, now we just have to get around to throwing away the box of
Cap'n Crunch sitting above our fridge and apply those principles....
And with that, I sign off for another week. Hopefully when I write to you again, I will be a few pounds
lighter. Until then,
Elder Kupferer
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