On Tuesday we had zone conference, except this time we got together with half of the mission at Camp Nisqually which is a church camp in the middle of the woods down near Lacey. While there we did a good amount of service and played lots of games to get to know each other. Then at the very end we had sort of a testimony meeting thing. All of the departing missionaries (including me) had to give their final testimony. It was also a goodbye to President and Sister Leishman. They are leaving for home today, and we're getting President and Sister Metts today. So it was really good to get a chance to be with President and Sister Leishman one last time before they left. Then this Sunday President had a group final interview with all of us departing missionaries. He just gave the advice he gives to everyone who goes home, but he did it in a group since he didn't have much time and President Metts was going to give us our real final interviews. So I'm pretty grateful to have been able to get great advice from two amazing mission presidents instead of just one.
Another thing that's been pretty great is that we finally got to teach our first nonmember lesson this weekend! Since we doubled in it's been a little tough to get started and everyone keeps rescheduling on us. But we were able to teach this guy named Eric. He's super awesome! It was a little tough since his beliefs make it difficult to teach, but he's super open. By the end of that lesson we felt amazing. We were able to teach with the Spirit so that we were able to notice a small change in him by the end of it. So we'll be meeting with him again this weekend. Also he is really good friends with a member who's a returned missionary, and he helped us out so much with relating to him and helping him understand things.
Despite the difficulties of starting all over again in a new area, we're actually doing pretty well, and we've been seeing lots of success in the zone as well. That's it for this week. Love you!
-Elder Smith
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| Losing our frisbee in Bradley Lake |
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| Camp Nisqually with President and Sister Leishman |
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| Cool view of Mt. Rainier |
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