This week was pretty normal. Nothing too crazy happened. It flew by just like normal too. The end of the transfer is already coming up in a couple weeks and it seems like it just started. It's starting to heat up here. It was in the low 90's this week. I'm really dreading summer though. It gets way hot here.
So we had a cool experience this week. We were heading to an appointment going down the highway when we looked over and saw a dead bobcat on the side of the road! After the lesson we stopped by to see how old it was and unfortunately it had been dead for a while so it didn't smell good. We just left it there. About 5 minutes after that on our way to our next appointment we were going through a neighborhood and out of the corner of my eye I saw something running towards the front of our car so I hit the brakes thinking that it was somebody's dog. It was another bobcat! If I knew it was a bobcat I might have been tempted to actually hit it. They must have a lot of them around here or maybe we are just lucky. They also really do have panthers around her too. At least that’s what everybody says. I haven't seen one of those yet. They have a lot of hogs and also black bears that get into everyone's garbage so nobody likes them.
On Thursday we had zone conference which was a 2 hour drive away and we had to be there at 7 am. We ended up getting up around 4 to get there. And then yesterday we had daylight savings so right now I'm feeling like I'm sleep walking or something. Anyways, zone conference was really good. A lot of it was focused on how we can better study. We study in the mornings until 10 am. Elder Holland said that between 6:30 and 10:00 am, we are God's investigators. That is the time that we have to improve our knowledge and testimony. I value scripture study so much more now that I am on a mission. The scriptures are so valuable and I see way too many people taking them for granted. There were hundreds of lives devoted to this single book. How lucky are we? At zone conference they also talked about the importance of setting goals. Goals help us reach our full potential. In the life before this who were we? Were we captains, leaders, or rulers? Why does that change? I always love zone conferences. I especially loved this one because we got to swap out our old run down car for a new one! They gave us a 2016 Ford Fusion that only had a few hundred miles on it so it's super nice.
Yesterday was a great day. We had 5 people come with us to church. Tasha was able to come too! She is suppose to get baptized on the 9th of April but work has been getting in the way so she hasn't been able to come. And now she finally was able to! Her sister Tanya (she is also going to get baptized in April sometime. We just haven't set a date for that yet. We plan to do that tonight.) also came! They brought a few of their kids. They all loved it, especially Tanya and Tasha. I love being able to see people change their lives and come closer to Christ. It's such a great blessing that I wouldn't trade for anything in the world. Elder Rowley and I taught the Sunday school class with all of the investigators. We taught the Plan of Salvation and one of them asked, "what happens to all of the people who die without knowing Christ and weren't baptized?" It lead perfectly into talking about the temple with them. They want to go to the temple really bad now. Both Tasha's and Tanya's families are on fire! It's great.
Later yesterday we went to a members home where I cooked him some pork chops. They were so good! I mixed up some BBQ sauce with home grown honey, and a few seasonings and spread it all over them. I don't mean to brag but it tasted like heaven! Also yesterday as you guys might know, the church came out with their new Easter initiative which is a video about the atonement. It's such a great video and I hope you all share it with your friends. It's at FollowHim.mormon.org also you can use #hallelujah for the social media sights.
Something that's been on my mind this week is how we are faced with opposition a lot. There must be opposition in all things as it says in 2 Nephi 2:11. Without the bad, how would we know what good is? That's why Adam and Eve had to partake of the fruit. And that's why Christ had to come to earth. Christ is here for when the opposition seems to be too tough. That's when he picks us up. Opposition is just an opportunity to grow.
