On Tuesday we finally got some snow! We got about 2-3 inches here in Lacey, though in other areas of the mission they got a whole lot more. When Wednesday came around our mission president told us to have weekly planning that day instead of district council and to not drive our cars because of the snow. Unfortunately, the app that monitors our phones wigged out again and it took away all our apps including area book planner so we couldn't really do weekly planning for this week. It was a little ridiculous. And then President Leishman texted Elder Thacker and I and asked us to put the schedule for interviews together since he was switching up where he was going because of the weather. So we had a crazy day.
Thursday came around and we were allowed to use our cars again, so we had district council and interviews with our mission president. That was probably one of the best days for me. I really needed to talk to President Leishman since I had been stressing a little about being a zone leader and feeling inadequate. As I talked with him in my interview, I was able to feel complete relief about everything. He told me that the Lord called me because He knew I was capable of doing this. Since then I've been able to feel confident in those things I've been doing as a zone leader.
The next day on Friday Elder Thacker and Elder Mose went to the temple with some recent converts, and then that night they were visiting some samoan families we're working with and put two UBC's on date for February first. It was super great.
Then on Saturday I went on exchanges with the Spanish trio here in Lacey, and that was a lot of fun! I was able to follow up on some old investigators I had a year ago and just have a good time with those 3 missionaries.
On Sunday Dez was able to be interviewed by President Coppin who is a counselor of our mission presidency and also lives in our ward. He was able to help us know some things that she needs to do before she can get baptized. So unfortunately Dez fell off date but she is still super intent on being baptized.
Chris on the other hand was supposed to be baptized yesterday as well, but he told us that he was going out of town so it was pushed back to next week. Despite the lack of baptisms this weekend, it's been great to see not only success, but also the growth of the people we're working with, and the progress of the Lord's work in this ward. We currently have 4 people on date! It's amazing!
I just had a couple thoughts from my training that I had to give at district council this week. There's a talk called The Faith to Reap that our mission president had us read a while ago, and in that talk Elder Wilford Andersen describes what the faith to reap is. He says, "The faith to thrust in your sickle is the faith to try. It is faith in oneself and it evaporates as soon as the going gets tough. And then we start to doubt. But the faith to reap is faith in the Lord, Jesus Christ. It never yields." He then talks about how once we have faith in Christ, we need to pray to align our will with God then go to work: "We cannot expect the Lord to guide our footsteps
if we're not willing to move our feet. And we should not ask the Lord to do for us what we can and should do for ourselves."
I love you all! Hope you have a great week!
Elder Smith
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| Celebrating Elder Thacker's 21st birthday |
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| Our companionship and the Spanish elders at interviews |
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| Elder Parker and I showing off our scarfs that a member made for us. |
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