Preparing people to teach!

This week we had exchanges with the zone leaders in which I went with Elder Hyde who is Spanish called and is from Heber City. He would snowmobile back at home as well. We worked with Spanish people in the areas that are in my district while my companion stayed in Parkwood. Although we were working with the Spanish people we had two lessons in English as well as two in Spanish. I learned so much and this is another exchange that will change my mission. He was very good at speaking WITH people and not TO people. He helped me learn how I can better talk with people and to catch their interest. He also mentioned when he was in a slow time of his mission how he learned the importance of prayer and that he was on his knees more than ever. I had a great and fun exchange.

We also had district meeting on Wednesday were I tried to help the sisters learn to have more effective companionship studies and how we must always role play and learn from each other. We also talked about the importance of faith in finding and in all that we do. The Lord promises all throughout the scriptures as well as in preach my gospel that He is preparing people for us to teach and we must have faith in those promises.

Richard dropped us last week on Monday night and said he doesn't want to meet with us anymore. Russell has cancelled the last two weeks on us and didn't come to church on Sunday. No other investigators or less actives came but that's okay. We haven't seen the Rodriguez family for two weeks which is to bad because they did come to church for three straight weeks but have missed the last couple weeks. Hopefully we will be able to get a hold of them sometime this week. Other than that we have met many people over the last couple days. We had 8 lessons this week which is about triple what we usually get. All of them came on Friday and Saturday except for one lesson. Most of them were just from talking with people that God put in our path.

Tomorrow we have zone conference which I am super excited for. It's always great to hear from President Slaughter as well as the assistance. It was another nice week. My companion was complaining because he thought it was really hot but I told him to just wait until the summer when it is more humid and about 30 degrees hotter.


"Go forward in life with a twinkle in your eye and a smile on your face, but with great purpose in heart."                                                                                   Gordon B. Hinckley