Wow.
That's the word of the week.
Wow.
This week was amazing!
Last Tuesday was Zone Conference. We prepared our little Zone Leader bit,
and showed up, and guess what? I'm conducting! haha So, I got to conduct my
first zone conference. It was probably the best zone conference I've ever been
to. EVERYBODY in the zone seems to have come prepared for a spiritual feast, and
because of that, we feasted! Elder F. and I were prompted to talk on the
exact thing President Riggs was going to speak on for the last hour and a half
of the conference, so when it was his time, he just followed the Spirit. Imagine
an hour and a half of an inspired man - who has been set apart and given
preisthood keys to receive revelation for YOU - as he just gets up and talks for
an hour and a half on whatever the Spirit prompts him to. It was absolutely
incredible.
Wednesday, I got to go on an exchange with Elder A., one of our new
district leaders. It was awesome working with him. He's pretty new to the
mission field, and is just a big sponge! It was one of the best district leader
trainings I've ever had the opportunity to do because he was just SOO open to
new ideas and concepts. It was awesome.
Friday, we had the awesome opportunity to meet with our new Ward Mission
Leader. Holy cow, he's going to be awesome! Just initially getting thigns set up
with him I got goosebumps because of how excited I was! We're so excited! Did I
say that already? haha
Saturday was another example for me of ways to work well with the ward.
When I was on the exchange Wednesday, Elder F. and Elder P. met L.,
who used to meet with the missionaries. He was rLDS for 25 years, mostly because
his wife was, then when they divorced, he became Methodist. He's often felt like
something was missing though, and when he was sick and couldn't attend, there
was no outreach to see if he was ok and that hurt him. Then he met us, and his
biggest concern was demographics. He didn't know if there was anybody in our
church his age (70).... So, we went to the High Priests Group. :P The High
Priests Group leader got a visit from us Saturday morning, and we told him about
L.. Then we left, and 15 minutes later, we got a text saying Brother H.
would be at our apartment at 6:10 that evening to go vistit L. with us. We had
an AMAZING lesson with L., and he and Brother H. clicked really well. And
Brother H. is excited to help and L. is excited to have a friend, and it
all just works out! It was great :)
Sunday, our dinner appointment was with a family that had this HUGE rope
swing in their backyard. They built this huge catwalk so you hold the rope and
walk up it (kind of a sketch thing to do in dress shoes), then you're just
standing on this little wooden platform 15 feet up in the air, and you just jump
off and swing! It was so awesome!!!
Then, there was that broadcast last night.... WOWWW!!!! That was so
amazing! We were just glued the whole time... haha It was amazing! All that
training and those principles and all of, well, all of it! It was just
fantastic!
So, a bit of a prefiew for this week. Today, we're going to meet up with
the zone to practice some music. Our zone is putting on a musical fireside on
July 10th. It's going to be awesome. We have SOOO much musical talent in our
zone. We're really excited and the stake and ward leaders are totally backing us
in this, so hopefully we'll have LOTS of people there, and hopefully some
finding will come of it!
Wednesday is our big mission conference before the split Thursday. Elder
F. and I had to go scout out how many tables the stake center had this
morning. We need to somehow fit 280 people into the cultural hall for lunch....
It's going to be a lot of fun, but also a little sad. I'm definitely making sure
my camera is charged haha.
Well, that's it! Until next week!
-Elder Hodgson
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